Grand Rapids: Not The Backwater It Used To Be?
Finally someone gets it right. One of the people who read Last Chance Mile: The Reinvention of an American Community sent me an email the other day with a real compliment for Grand Rapids, Michigan.
He wrote, "After reading your book (Last Chance Mile) I can see that Grand Rapids is no longer the backwater it was when I used to go out there on business a decade ago."
It may not seem like much of a compliment at first blush, but anyone who was in Grand Rapids ten, fifteen or twenty years ago will tell you that this city has changed.
That is the message of Last Chance Mile. Even though many of the stories involve the Medical Mile, a $1 billion campus on the northeast side of the city, the stories are really about how the people of Grand Rapids have tried to change the way the world sees their community, the way the community sees itself and perhaps most importantly, the way the community sees the world.
He wrote, "After reading your book (Last Chance Mile) I can see that Grand Rapids is no longer the backwater it was when I used to go out there on business a decade ago."
It may not seem like much of a compliment at first blush, but anyone who was in Grand Rapids ten, fifteen or twenty years ago will tell you that this city has changed.
That is the message of Last Chance Mile. Even though many of the stories involve the Medical Mile, a $1 billion campus on the northeast side of the city, the stories are really about how the people of Grand Rapids have tried to change the way the world sees their community, the way the community sees itself and perhaps most importantly, the way the community sees the world.
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