Houses, Apartments, and Property Management Services in Grand Rapids

Urban FarmAfter a successful contest last year, and positive feedback throughout the fall and winter, we are pleased to announce the Second Annual Urban Pharm Urban Farm Contest. The contest starts now, and ends on midnight 7/31/10.

The Contest
Contestants must create and maintain a garden. It can be a vegetable or flower garden. If there’s some type of cool garden that we don’t even know about [...]

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Looking back…

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UPConcept1While looking through some old folders in my computer, I stumbled across some images created when we started Urban Pharm about 3 years ago. These images existed before we had a logo, and were intended as concepts to be used for various marketing materials–flyers, website headers, logo, etc. Nothing fancy here; just some playing around with Photoshop and MS Paint.

This made me reflect on how far we have come in a short period of time. In July of 2007, we managed less than a dozen properties. A year later, we were well over 100. By July 2009, we doubled in size again and added a full time employee to help us with leasing and collecting rent. Though we are a small business that will not take over the world or redefine the way property management [...]

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Rapid GrowthBe sure to check out today’s issue of Rapid Growth Media for a wonderfully written piece on our little company. Don’t navigate away without reading the piece on the Beerhorst Family. I had the pleasure of meeting Brenda Beerhorst on the Uptown trolley a few weeks ago while attempting to be the makeshift tour guide. We are flattered that Tom Mulligan, Brian Kelly, and the rest of the Rapid Growth Media team took some time to learn a bit about our company.

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Office Under Construction

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UPDATE: It’s all wrapped up–paint, landscaping, and all. I’ve been itching to work out on the deck, but 90+ degree temps will keep me in the a/c for the time being. Mmmmm…cedar bark…delicious.

Originally Posted 5/19/09: Pardon our mess while we make a few improvements. Plans include new exterior paint, rotted [...]

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