Grand Rapids Building Services

04/17/2026

Another great evening supporting Grant Me Hope. This organization helps with adoption and supporting young adults who have aged out of foster care. We encourage you to see how you can support this selfless service.

04/05/2026

02/17/2026

We had to support local and buy a variety of paczki’s! Thank you Sandy’s Donuts for the amazing flavors!

Our team voted and they’ve picked Bavarian Cream as their favorite.

01/22/2026

What a great shoutout from Belding Middle School! We appreciate our team members and love when our partners take the time to recognize them.

01/20/2026

It’s an honor to be recognized as the BEST of 2025 Grand Rapids Award Winner in the Janitorial Service category.

12/24/2025

Our management team was tasked with recreating a scene from a holiday movie. We hope you enjoy watching the fun they had creating these!

12/12/2025

And the winners are….

Best Door Decoration- Santa Jason stressed and being helped by all his elves

Most Festive Cookie- A classic decorated sugar cookie

Most Decorative Cookie- Melting Frosty

12/12/2025

Cookie Exchange in the works! Lots of festive baking happened, with a big variety of flavors and decorations 🍪🎄

12/08/2025

After 28 years with GRBS, it's a sad goodbye, but a happy retirement for Serena Galloway. Over her two decade span with us, Serena worked at over 7 different locations in a variety of capacities. She said GRBS is her second home, and this was a treasured time, and she felt we cared.

A few special moments that stand out to her are when she was able to throw a whipped cream pie in her managers face at a retreat. Another year, she was able to go to the Lansing Lugnuts game as a celebration, and won a prize. She also loved eating the cheesecake at the Awards Banquet, where she even won Assistant Supervisor of the Year.

When asked what she loved most, she said, "The people I worked with. I have had amazing managers, supervisors, and support from HR and my team members. I am going to miss Jason, Ben, and Jodi. They have always been there when I needed anything. GRBS is forever a part of me, and is family."

In her retirement, she might start to bowl more, even though she feels she isn't that good, but she loves to laugh and have fun in everything she does. She plans to spend more time with her grand babies as well.

We will miss her smiling face, but hope to her about her retirement when she joins us for our annual banquet, where she can keep having her cheesecake. Thank you Serena for all your dedication to GRBS.

11/12/2025

We are so thankful to Fremont Public Schools for recognizing Nina’s hard work, and grateful we were able to help support their efforts in doing something truly special for her.

🧽 Meet Nina, Fremont Middle School's nighttime custodian. She loves football and working in the district. She's been here for years and is retiring at the end of the school year.

🦁 Teacher Heidi Bonnema sees her at the end of the day when she comes to take the trash out, and they usually always chat about the Lions.

🏈 "She is a rabid NFL fan and talks to me about football every time she comes into my room. I asked her if she ever attended a game and she said she hadn't," said Mrs. Bonnema.

🤔 So, FMS staff decided it was time to change that.

🎫 They pooled together money to send her and her husband to a Lions home game to say thank you for her many years of hard work.

🚘 Grand Rapids Business Services matched the staff's funds so they could send her to the game with "princess" parking passes and enough to cover drinks and dinner in Detroit.

🩵 They were also able to get her a #14 jersey for Amon Ra St. Brown, her favorite player.

🏙️ Ms. Veenstra and her son drove Nina and her husband to Detroit and attended the game with them.

💭 "We wanted to thank her for all she does at night that helps us do our jobs during the day," said Mrs. Bonnema.

👏 Thank you, Nina, for all that you have done for staff and students -- and way to go FMS staff on your act of appreciation.