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Dick DeVos, Rick DeVos, Cool Cities, and Irony

Short but sweet:

1. Dick DeVos wants to eliminate the Governor’s ‘Cool Cities’ program.
2. Dick DeVos claims he turned around a city.
3. Dick’s son Rick DeVos was considered the “driving force behind the DeVos family’s partnership with Rockford Construction in redeveloping the Cherry Street Landing area.”
4. Rick, a neo/theo-con like his dad, wants** to make it a ‘cool’ place:

“ I guess I first started thinking about downtown and making it a cool spot years ago when I was in my band,”

“I think we just want … more cool amenities.”

“I think we have a pretty good music scene but it obviously could be a lot better and more accessible for more people. I’d like to see more cutting-edge art galleries, that sort of thing — just an expanded sort of downtown community. More residential stuff, getting people down here all the time so there’s always something going on down here.”

Yep … sounds like a ‘Cool City‘ to me …

btw, what a lame article

**As of 2003

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1 comment to Dick DeVos, Rick DeVos, Cool Cities, and Irony

  • quaker21

    Rock on, Christine. Loved how you caught the contradictions. Cool Cities is one of my pet favorites of the Guv’s initatives, and I would hate to see it go under a DeVos administration.

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