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News from Rapid Growth

Conference aims to help West Michigan businesses create more 'green'

February 27, 2008

By: Deborah Johnson Wood

A building is only as 'green' as its cleaning products, energy consumption, indoor air quality, carbon emissions, recycling programs, waste handling, and, yes, even landscaping allows it to be. With all those variables to manage, how does a facilities manager manage?

That’s what the third annual Green Facilities Conference hopes to tackle when it convenes at Calvin College's Prince Conference Center on March 26.

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Gathering on the Grand

October 10, 2007

Grand Rapids once competed with Midwestern cities like Lansing and Indianapolis for the lucrative convention business. But after the construction of DeVos Place and $3 billion of urban reinvestment, Michigan's second largest city increasingly is on the national stage with the likes of San Antonio and Portland.

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