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Planning commission approves Ground‑floor office conversion, 24‑hour access at former UICA building
Summary
The Grand Rapids City Planning Commission approved a special land‑use request to convert the ground floor of the former UICA building at 2 West Fulton Street to office (co‑working) use with 24‑hour member access while leaving event uses under prior approvals.
The Grand Rapids City Planning Commission on July 10 approved a request to convert the ground floor of the former UICA art gallery at 2 West Fulton Street into office use with 24‑hour access for members of the co‑working spaces, while maintaining existing event operations and hours authorized by an earlier approval.
The building, a roughly 40,000‑square‑foot, 12‑story structure constructed in 2008 for the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art (UICA), sits at the southwest corner of West Fulton Street and South Division Avenue in the Hartside Historic District. Staff said the property is in the TNCC (targeted neighborhood commercial core) zone and in a targeted active commercial corridor under the GR Forward plan; ground‑floor office in that corridor requires special land‑use review.
Planning staff described the proposal as a mixed operation: co‑working and private office spaces on the ground floor and Level 1 (including some flexible “pop up” and retail…
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