Community Event

COMMUNITY PUBLIC MEETING
Wednesday, March 24 @ 6:30 pm

River House
335 Bridge St NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49504

RSVP to Rachel@Inthe616.com

Coffee and light appetizers will be available.

700days since
Google Fiber Nominations Due

Our Mission

Grand Rapids is a strong and vibrant community. A perfect place for the experiment Google has launched to test a concept of providing fiber for ultra high-speed broadband networks to a small number of trial locations across the United States.  Grand Rapids should be one of those trial locations!

The speeds delivered will be more than 100 times faster than what most of us are normally used to. Basically, Google is looking to experiment with bringing 1 GB speed to the home through fiber. It's the high speed rail of the Internet.

The possibilities and opportunities this would provide our community are endless, but here are some examples of what we might be able to achieve:
  • Continue to foster and encourage the entrepreneurial spirit that is Grand Rapids
  • Our state of the art health care systems would be bolstered with these types of speeds
  • Arts (growing arts community; art prize); environment (great lakes)
Google wants to experiment and learn about delivering high speed Internet. Grand Rapids is a great place to experiment as we're a community of creative minds, thinking of ways to make community better. Arts, education, health care... we have it all right here in Grand Rapids.