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The city of Grand Rapids was incorporated April 2, 1850. [ 9] It was officially established on May 2, 1850, when the village of Grand Rapids voted to accept the proposed city charter. The population at the time was 2,686. By 1857, the city of Grand Rapids' area totaled 10.5 square miles (27 km 2 ).
Grand Rapids is a city in and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, United States. [ 4] At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 198,893, [ 5] making it the second-most populous city in Michigan, after Detroit. Grand Rapids is the central city of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area, which has a population of 1,162,950 and a combined ...
Painted steel. Dimensions. 13 m × 9.1 m × 16 m (43 ft × 30 ft × 54 ft) Location. Vandenberg Plaza, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Coordinates. 42°58′10″N 85°40′15″W / 42.96937°N 85.67075°W / 42.96937; -85.67075. La Grande Vitesse, a public sculpture by American artist Alexander Calder, is located on the large concrete plaza ...
Photo by Michael Moran. Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is a 158-acre (64 ha) botanical garden, art museum, [ 3] and outdoor sculpture park located in Grand Rapids Township, Michigan, United States. Opened in 1995, Meijer Gardens quickly established itself in the Midwest as a major cultural attraction jointly focused on horticulture ...
The Grand Rapids Police Department was established in 1871 with eight patrolmen operating under one chief. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The police department originally operated under the direction of the mayor and city council, though a separate board of commissioners was created for police and fire department in 1881, initially creating conflict between city ...
Van Andel Arena is a multi-purpose arena situated in the Heartside district of Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. The arena attracted over five million patrons in its first 5 years, 1996–2001. It serves as the home of the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League and the Grand Rapids Gold of the NBA G League.
DeVos Place Convention Center, erected on the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a multi-purpose convention center. It is named for Richard DeVos, who donated $20 million towards its construction. The convention center contains a large, 162,000 square foot exhibit hall and an additional 40,000 square foot ballroom.
The Grand Rapids metropolitan area is a triangular shaped Metro Triplex, in West Michigan, which fans out westward from the primary hub city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, to the other two metro hubs of Muskegon and Holland. The metropolitan area had an estimated population of 1,059,113 in 2017. [ 3] The region, noted in particular for its western ...