GRAND RAPIDS, MI —After five years on the market, the former Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts building in downtown Grand Rapids has been sold for $4.5 million to Bamboo, a Detroit-based ...

The UICA moved into the Kendall College of Art and Design’s Woodbridge N. Ferris building, on Pearl Street near Division Avenue, before closing for good in 2023.

The old UICA building is owned by Ferris State University’s Kendall College of Art and Design. The building has been closed since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Michigan in 2020.