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Core Priorities: Maintaining Our Momentum Survey

Core Priorities is Downtown Grand Rapids's strategic plan for the next decade: a focused guide to how downtown grows, invests, and continues to get better. Para tomar la encuesta en español, ¡haga clic aquí!

Downtown's Core Priorities and its next decade start with you. Take this quick survey to tell us about your priorities for Downtown Grand Rapids (and enter a raffle to win a $25 gift card to a local Downtown business)!
DEMOGRAPHICS

Demographic questions are optional but help us keep track of the cross-section of people we are reaching.
1.Which of the following best describes your race or ethnicity? Check all that apply.
2.What is your age?
3.What is your home zip code?
THEN
4.How do you think Downtown has changed in the past 10 years?(Required.)
5.Please elaborate on why you chose your answer to the question above.(Required.)
NOW
6.What is your relationship to Downtown Grand Rapids? Check all that apply.(Required.)
7.How often do you come Downtown?(Required.)
8.What primarily brings you Downtown?(Required.)
9.What is your primary mode of transportation to get to work?(Required.)
10.What are the things that you like best about Downtown? Please choose up to three of the following.(Required.)
11.What are the things that you like least about Downtown? Please choose up to three of the following.(Required.)
12.What types of businesses do you patronize most frequently in Downtown Grand Rapids? You can choose up to three of the business types listed.(Required.)
13.Where do you shop for day to day items [such as paper products, cleaning supplies, toiletries, etc.]? Please write the name and location.(Required.)
14.How frequently do you eat out in a restaurant or get take-out food for lunch or dinner anywhere in Downtown Grand Rapids?(Required.)
WHAT'S NEXT
15.Would you consider starting your own business? If so, would you consider doing so in Downtown Grand Rapids?(Required.)
16.Short-term improvements / easy lifts: If you could change one thing about Downtown today (or in the next year), what would it be?(Required.)
17.Long-term / aspirational improvements: Some things take time and effort! If you were to suggest one aspirational project or sustained effort to improve Downtown over the long-term, what would it be?(Required.)
18.If you would like to stay updated and involved in this planning process, please provide your email address below:
19.If you would like to enter a raffle for a $25 giftcard to a local downtown business, please provide your phone number or email address below: