A running joke on the City of Grand Rapids Parks and Recreation Department's Facebook page has turned a local pool's closure into a little bit of a meme. The Richmond Park Pool closed for the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Grand Rapids has more than a dozen parks projects in the works for 2023. City parks staff recently outlined roughly 19 parks projects set for construction in 2023, and 17 more ...

Davis Marquardt, who currently serves as the director of the Parks and Recreation department for the City of Grand Rapids, is joining Kalamazoo's City Manager's Office on Monday, July 7.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (ABC 4)- Did you know Grand Rapids has 75+ parks located throughout the city? With over 2,000 acres of parkland for locals to explore, Grand Rapids Park and Recreation has made ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The City of Grand Rapids Parks and Recreation has announced that it is hiring camp counselors for its Free Summer Day Camp program. The camp program will run June 12-August 25.

Grand Rapids’ longtime parks and recreation director, David Marquardt, has been named Kalamazoo’s new deputy city manager. He will begin his new role on Monday, July 7, the City of Kalamazoo announced ...

City leaders on Monday announced the hiring of David Marquardt. He has been Grand Rapids’ director of parks and recreation since 2015. “David leaves us with a capable department of dedicated ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Grand Rapids has 74 city parks ... to our public park spaces," said David Marquardt, the city's parks and recreation director, in a statement. "This goal was prioritized ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich ... rededication was in partnership with the Rosa Parks CircleConservancy following a rehabilitation project. Parks and Recreation Director David Marquardt said the impressive ...

Marquardt joins Kalamazoo from the City of Grand Rapids, where he served as the director of parks and recreation since 2015. “I am thrilled to be joining the City of Kalamazoo team that has a ...