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LaFleur Marketing is a Grand Rapids based, data driven digital agency (founded in 2015 by Chip LaFleur) that partners with law firms, healthcare, financial services, and other professional organizations to deliver human-centered strategies in branding, SEO, content, web development, paid ads, and more built on analytics, creativity, and community values
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(888)222-1512
Address
459 Ottawa Ave. NW #201
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49503
City
Grand Rapids
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Alexander Calder
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La Grande Vitesse, a public sculpture by American artist Alexander Calder, is located on the large concrete plaza surrounding City Hall and the Kent County Building in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Popularly referred to as simply "the Calder", since its installation in 1969 it has come to be a symbol of Grand Rapids, and an abstraction of it is included in the city's official logo.
The sculpture was the first public art work funded by the Art in Public Places program of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Fabricated in Tours, France and assembled on the plaza, the steel sculpture is 43 feet tall, 54 feet long, and 30 feet wide, and weighs 42 tons. It is painted in Calder's signature bright red. The title is French for “the great swiftness" [2]which is synonymous with and ultimately translated as "The Grand Rapids".
The sculpture was the first public art work funded by the Art in Public Places program of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Fabricated in Tours, France and assembled on the plaza, the steel sculpture is 43 feet tall, 54 feet long, and 30 feet wide, and weighs 42 tons. It is painted in Calder's signature bright red. The title is French for “the great swiftness" [2]which is synonymous with and ultimately translated as "The Grand Rapids".
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1969
Location
Calder Plaza
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(616) 458-0790
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801 Monroe Ave NW
49503
49503
City
Grand Rapids
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16163016000
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801 Monroe Ave NW
49503
49503
City
Grand Rapids
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16163839393
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1140 Monroe Ave NW
49503
49503
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Grand Rapids
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Seasonal, locally sourced dining.
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616-200-4343
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1001 Monroe Ave NW
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Grand Rapids
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18002429790
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342 Michigan St NE
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49503
City
Grand Rapids
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Antonio Tobias Mendez, 2013
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Monroe entrance to the City-County Administration Buildings