Plans for New Vets home made public, People getting sticker shock at the price.

 Drawings of a new Grand Rapids Home for Veterans campus have been revealed. 
State Rep. Winnie Brinks, D-Grand Rapids, shared the renderings on her Facebook page Dec. 28.
"Thank you to the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency and Creston Neighborhood Association for sharing these drawings with my office and constituents," Brinks wrote.
The drawings show a seven-building complex at the corner of Monroe Avenue and Three Mile Road, just south of the existing veterans home facility.
Four of the buildings are residential, and surround a central community center.
As opposed to the existing facility, which has a more institutional layout, drawings of the new campus show sprawling, single-story residential buildings more like long term nursing care facilities.
The new facility will cost approximately $49.9 million. It will have 120 to 150 beds -- 205 to 235 fewer than the current veterans home provides.

The cost for this new facility is extremely high, given how much it costs per foot of space, compared to other commercial construction

Follow the money!  These numbers aren't making sense - spend $50,000,000.00 to go from 355 beds to 128 at $1960 ser sq.ft . Why not just buy Bridgewater and give it to the vets.

The thing that is really making me sick about the City of Grand Rapids complete lack of Transparency - you would have to some third world country to find a government that is so determined to keep facts from the public in the age of the internet and social media - lets start out with who is making the loot off the existing buildings and why is the cost of construction more than ten times more than the private sector ?

Government shrink the available beds and jack up the price 13%? perfect..

So $49 million to build 25,000 sq, ft equals $1960 per sq.ft.
Michigan homebuilders average cost per square foot is $150
So 13 times more expensive to build then average?
Must be the extra landscaping and hand greasing costs right?

 A 1500 square foot house in the suburbs costs much less than the $383,000 cost per 400 square foot apartment.