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Tag Archives: neighborhood organizing
Neighborhood wins battle against outside development forces in Grand Rapids 1997
This article first appeared in a September/October 1997 issue of the FUNdamentalist. Last month we posted another story about a development/gentrification project in the Belknap neighborhood. This article deals with a battle in the near south east part of Grand … Continue reading
Grand Rapids People's History Project 