Earlier this week, I wrote an article highlighting and comparing the many different gym memberships around Grand Rapids. Since then, I’ve learned about a membership at a place that describes itself as “like a gym membership, but with power tools.”
The Grand River Makerspace (GRM), a new non-profit collaborative space created by Chris Kaminsky and Josh Fennessy near the former Delta Plex building, allows people to pay monthly or per-visit to access tools like 3D printers and woodworking equipment, classes, and a community of creatives and ordinary people all working in one place, collaborating on their projects. It opened in September 2025.
Tommy McNeill, Townsquare Media
You can make almost anything here, which is exactly what they did when a family reached out to the Makerspace with a bold request: 3D-print a working mobility trainer for their…
