FULL EPISODE: Grand Rapids, Michigan | John McGivern's Main Streets

Grand Rapids, Michigan, was once known as Furniture City. Now thanks to craft brewers, it’s self coined as Beer City. The top tourist attraction is probably The Gerald R Ford Presidential Museum. But ArtPrize, Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, and Max’s South Seas Hideaway help make this city just plain attractive!
Featured Locations Include:
0:00 Intro
3:18 Brewery Vivant
5:11 Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park
7:50 Monroe Filter Plant
8:32 ArtPrize
10:40 La Grande Vitesse
11:15 Steelcase
11:36 Re-Dwell
13:48 "Ecliptic" at Rosa Parks Circle
14:16 Innovation Central High School
14:43 Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
17:36 Heritage Hill
17:53 Meyer May House
18:08 Amway Grand Plaza Hotel
20:33 Grand Rapids Public Museum
20:58 Fish Ladder Park
21:35 Max's South Seas' Hideaway
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[@kingsethos5108]

Lifelong resident of GR here. That was great to watch, I never knew of Max's South Beach Hideaway before. Fantastic overview of my city...it's funny you mentioned the Pantlind Hotel as a movie set because it actually was for a movie called, "The Steam Experiment", starring Val Kilmer and Armand Assante. There was about a 4 year period where Hollywood used Grand Rapids as a backdrop for many movies. "30 Minutes Or Less", "The End Of The Tour" and a few movies by 50 Cent.

[@natejohnson296]

Great Video!

[@chadl5233]

Now Grand Rapids is known for the most alcoholics in the country and I don't know how that can be a good thing

[@kathleenpenny9388]

I don't drink. But I love GR

[@chadl5233]

And now they're going to destroy the river and redo it all Grand Rapids has gone downhill since I've been born and I'm 50 years old been here all my life

[@gogreen7794]

I see nothing but improvements and I was born in Blodgett Hospital over 68 years ago. What don't you like?

[@bunnylovesbostons]

I agree and also wonder how anyone (in replies to you) spent 68 years there and thinks things got better. Better for who? That's my hometown and we had to move up north to finish raising our kids in relative peace. I was also born in old Blodgett (the first building) myself