Abby Poirier

Officials at the Grand Rapids area's two major shopping malls are optimistic heading into the 2024 shopping season, despite sharply different visitor traffic trends and mall owners' priorities for luring in shoppers.

A Traverse City attorney-turned-furniture business owner is expanding her company with the addition of a second location in Grand Rapids, where she looks to build on the 30-year-old business she purchased earlier this year.

Just four months reopening in its new Bridge Street location, Scandinavian-inspired farm-to-table restaurant Sovengard has run into some operational challenges.

Four months after purchasing the RiverTown Crossings mall in Grandville, new owners Poag Development Group has invested more than $1.3 million into upgrading and modernizing the property.

Approximately four months after opening, Grand Rapids-based Mission Restaurant Group has closed its flagship Pide & Stick concept on Bridge Street on the city's west side.

Foxtail Coffee Co. continues to expand in West Michigan with its first drive-thru location in Grandville.

Motu Lakeshore Wine Bar and Prohibition Muskegon Bar & Lounge are slated to open after the start of the new year, breathing new life into a formerly vacant building at the “gateway to Muskegon.”

Holland-based Tulip City Brewstillery plans to reopen this spring as Tulip City Bar and Grill after nearly a year and $850,000 in renovations, including an expansion and the addition of a full kitchen as food truck Spice Boys moves indoors.

Small retailers in downtown Grand Rapids are feeling the strain of a slow holiday season as sales and foot traffic decline.

Seven years after owner Emily Griffen created the brand, cocktail mixer brand Brewt's is taking the leap into canned cocktails with the addition of a non-alcoholic margarita line that will help the brand branch out of the mixers section.