Sep 26, 2024
The owner of a nearly 25-year-old bakery wants to help transform her business’ block in Grand Rapids’ Roosevelt Park neighborhood with housing and retail.
Maria Ivette Reyes, owner of M&M Bakery LLC at 1506 Cesar E. Chavez Ave. SW, and her son, Joshua Reyes, are behind the mixed-use plans for Reyes Lofts. The project calls for at least 22 apartments with three ground-floor retail suites and would span the bakery property and an adjacent site at 1521 Roosevelt Ave. SW. The 14,400-square-foot building on Cesar E. Chavez dates back to 1912, according to city property records.
Reyes plans to relocate the bakery, which specializes in custom cakes, to property her company owns across the street at 1500 Cesar E. Chavez to keep the business’ presence in the majority-Hispanic neighborhood that’s undergoing a historic wave of new investment.