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What’s Up in Uptown – Featuring Blue Bridge Games

By Dana Kroll, Uptown Marketing and Communications Specialist   Ready, set, flip the sand timer: It’s time for the next installation in our series, and for this one, we chitchat
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What’s Up in Uptown – Featuring Louise Earl Butcher

By Dana Kroll, Uptown Marketing and Communications Specialist   For the third insallment of our interview series, we sit down with Matt Smith. Together, he and his wife Cindy co-own
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What’s Up in Uptown – Featuring The Meanwhile Bar

By Dana Kroll, Uptown Marketing and Communications Specialist   Welcome back to our next Uptown Q&A interview. It’s the second of a fun and hopefully informative series, that we will
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What’s Up in Uptown – Featuring Essence Restaurant Group

By Dana Kroll, Uptown Marketing and Communications Specialist   Welcome to the first installation of a fun new series we have created with you in mind. Whether visiting a new
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Small Business Week 2023: Its History, and Why We Observe

By Dana Kroll, Uptown Marketing and Communications Specialist   This week Americans observe Small Business Week 2023. If you love the Uptown district, then chances are pretty likely that you
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Uptown Grand Rapids Business Awarded Grant Via Latest MEDC ‘Match on Main’ Program

By Dana Kroll, Uptown Marketing and Communications Specialist   Uptown Grand Rapids, Inc. is pleased to announce that for a fourth consecutive time, it has been selected as a recipient
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Uptown Grand Rapids Business Awarded Grant Via MEDC ‘Match on Main’ Program

By Dana Kroll, Uptown Marketing and Communications Specialist Uptown Grand Rapids, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has once again been selected as a recipient of the latest grant
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The Uptown Shop Hop Returns For Its 25th Anniversary With Jolly Trolleys and More

By Dana Kroll, Uptown Marketing and Communications Specialist Uptown Grand Rapids, IncUptown GR Inc. is pleased to announce the return of its signature annual event, the Uptown Shop Hop, on
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Collaboration for a Cause: National Diaper Need Awareness Week

By Dana Kroll, Uptown Marketing and Communications Specialist The collaborative spirit is alive and well in Uptown Grand Rapids, and is a vital component in stoking the vibrant, connected, collective
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Announcing the 2022 Revue West Michigan Magazine’s Best of the West

By Dana Kroll, Uptown Marketing and Communications Specialist It’s August in West Michigan which means fun, sun, and the good times that a little healthy competition always brings…and that by
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