May 1, 2025
An emerging developer who was born and raised on the southeast side of Grand Rapids is leveraging his experience with disability to craft what he believes will be the city’s first fully accessible mixed-use development.
Gabriel Grant, founder and CEO of the Grand Rapids-based home health care services company Care Granted, is planning an approximately $6 million, 20-unit mixed-use housing and commercial project called The Heights on Burton at 800 and 806 Burton St. SE, in the northwest corner of Alger Heights.
Initial plans filed with the city call for demolishing the existing commercial building at 800 and 806 Burton to construct a modern, 9,000-square-foot, four-story structure that will house three ground-floor commercial suites and residential housing on the upper stories.
The development would be allowed by right, as the property is in the Traditional Neighborhood-Traditional Business Area zone district that allows for mixed-use buildings.
This will be Grant’s first time leading a mixed-use development, though he’s been getting his feet wet in residential real estate for the past couple years, acquiring a few units in the Grand Rapids area and converting them to accessible dwellings that clients of Care Granted can rent.