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Trinity Health seeks input, partners to revitalize housing in GR’s Heartside neighborhood

Trinity Health seeks input, partners to revitalize housing in GR’s Heartside neighborhood
BY MARK SANCHEZ
Thursday, December 01, 2022 08:55am
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GRAND RAPIDS — More than 4,700 people once lived in the neighborhood immediately surrounding Trinity Health’s Saint Mary’s Hospital campus back in the early 1900s.

Today, after more than a century of development and change, fewer than 1,000 people call the neighborhood home.

A project that Trinity Health envisions would begin to bring density back to the neighborhood by transforming a four-block area that’s currently used for parking across Jefferson Avenue from Saint Mary’s Hospital, founded in 1893 by the Sisters of Mercy.

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Trinity Health this past summer submitted the Heartside Health District Revitalization to Kent County for consideration to receive partial funding through ARPA money. Kent County commissioners did not include the $19 million that Trinity Health sought in a list of projects the ARPA funding will support.

Submitting the project to Kent County for funding gave Trinity Health an opportunity to start a process to check public opinion and gauge support for the concept and potentially forge partnerships that can carry the vision forward.....

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