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Commercial Real Estate Credit —
Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI
The state of disclosed CRE credit in this market · MI
The read
$651M of CMBS across 31 loans. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2029 ($332M, 51% of the book). Distress is easing in the filed record — 13.2% as of 2026-07. 16 on-the-ground distress events in the past year (348 jobs).
Overview
CMBS
Submarkets
Local Banks
Jobs & Demand
On The Ground
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The CMBS properties our stress model flags here, plus recent store closures and layoffs. Stressed is a wider net than distressed — the distressed figure above counts only loans already in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, while these dots also include performing loans facing maturity or coverage pressure. Property dots sit at the center of their ZIP code, not the building — they show where stress concentrates, not which asset. Closures and layoffs are pinned to address where we have it. Open any dot to the building and the loan behind it →
The 2029 wall dominates a thin Grand Rapids book as filed distress eases
Grand Rapids carries a compact CMBS book — $651 million across 31 loans — and the weight of it is stacked at a single point on the calendar. Fully $332 million, or 51% of the book, comes due in 2029, with lighter tranches trailing into 2030, 2031 and 2034. For now the filed record is moving the right way: distress stands at 13.2% as of July 2026 and has been easing. Median DSCR of 1.64 points to a book with cushion to spare.
The on-the-ground ledger tells a quieter version of the same story. Sixteen distress events crossed the wire over the past year — ten store closures and six layoff notices — accounting for 348 jobs. That is a modest tally for a metro this size, and it sits against a labor backdrop that has firmed, with unemployment at 4.2% in August 2026, down two-tenths of a point year over year.
The read here is concentration, not deterioration. The filed distress rate is falling and the near-term maturity calendar is clear, but the 2029 bulge is the number to keep in front of you — a slug of paper that refinances or resolves in one bunched window, in a book small enough that it defines the metro's risk by itself.
Written 2026-10-21
CMBS Distressed UPB
Not reported
fewer than 3 loans are distressed here, too few for the share to be a rate — the book size and loan count above are unaffected
CMBS Maturing ≤ 24mo
$32M
Banks HQ’d Here (stressed)
1 / 10
Bank Early-Warning
2 flagged
Store Closures (1y)
10
Layoff Notices (1y)
6 / 348 jobs
0.06% of metro employment
CMBS Loans / UPB
31 / $651M
Unemployment · Aug 2026
4.2%
-0.2pp yr
How much CRE distress is there in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI right now?
All four distress signals are elevated in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI right now — 4 of 4 — and all 6 of the paired readings agree, with 6 pairs both elevated and 0 both quiet or disagreeing. Store closures are running 11 closures at a rate of 2.02 per 100k jobs (ranked 40th of 392 by count, 166th by rate); WARN notices are 8 at a rate of 0.09% of employment (ranked 67th and 174th); bank CRE over the noncurrent line is 408.2 $mm at a rate of 4.45% (ranked 74th and 158th), though only 26.2% of those dollars sit at banks lending in one metro and the rest is split by branch deposits; and securitized loans in special servicing measure at 5 rows at a rate of 13.19% (ranked 34th and 39th), a floor because only 40.0% of the special-servicing rows carry a balance. There is no disagreement among the legs and no unadjudicated pairs, so the picture is one consistent stress story across all four feeds. The bank reading is allocated, not observed at the property, which should be noted as a caveat, but it is not a blind figure — the measurement state is "allocated" and a denominator is available. No other caveats apply; all legs report measurement states of either "allocated," "measured," or "floor," none are blind.
The figures behind this answer
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
11 closures | 2.02 per 100k jobs | 40 of 392 | 166 of 392 | elevated trailing 365 days to today
|
| layoff notices (WARN) workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment |
8 notices | 0.09% | 67 of 386 | 174 of 386 | elevated trailing 365 days to today
|
| bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line share of the CRE lent into this metro that sits at a lender over the blended-noncurrent line |
$408.2mm | 4.45% | 74 of 393 | 158 of 393 | elevated
allocated 2026-03-31
|
| securitized loans in special servicing share of the securitized balance read here that is in special servicing |
5 loan records | 13.19% | 34 of 335 | 39 of 335 | elevated
floor 2026-07-29
|
6 pairs compared
6 both elevated
0 both quiet
0 disagreeing
0 unreadable — a side is blind
4 of four legs elevated
one metro, four independent feeds, each on its own denominator
114 of 441 metros have at least one blind leg and 48 are blind on all four. Those 48 are the same metros the board's map cannot place and the metro resolver cannot name: one ZIP-to-CBSA crosswalk boundary, showing up three ways.
Elevation is computed on the COUNT, over a flat threshold, which is a size filter. New York is 2nd of 392 by store closures and 264th of the same 392 by closures per job — both true, and which one you lead with decides what the reader believes.
Where two legs disagree, that is usually a fact about WHICH mechanism is running, not an error in either feed and not a worse metro.
A leg with no denominator, or whose numerator cannot be measured, reads LOW and means nothing. Each leg publishes a measurement state (allocated, floor, measured, no denominator, no rate, not measurable) for that reason.
Store closures: divided by 544,364 jobs
— all metro jobs, QCEW annual average — a SIZE normaliser, not a matched population: the feed spans retail, food service and pharmacy and no single QCEW sector covers it. The MATCHED read sits beside it as this leg's second reading (trailing 365 days to today).
Layoff notices (WARN): divided by 555,782 employed
— employed persons, BLS LAUS, not seasonally adjusted (trailing 365 days to today).
Bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line: divided by $9,178.8 mm
— bank CRE allocated to this metro by branch deposits (2026-03-31).
Securitized loans in special servicing: divided by $652.0 mm
— current balance on the non-pari-passu rows of this tape — the trust's slice, not the whole loan, on both sides of the ratio (2026-07-29).
Written from the figures above · CBSA 24340 · stress_metro · last changed 28 Aug 2026
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Jobs & Demand — the labor market under the collateralWatch it change →
Every other zone on this page reads the credit — what the loan is doing.
This one reads the demand underneath it. Office jobs pay office rent;
office rent services the office loan. When the jobs go, the DSCR follows — but not for another year or two.
That lag is the whole point of looking here.
Unemployment · Aug 2026
4.2%
-0.2pp yr
Last 24 months
3.7%5.0%
Monthly metro unemployment (BLS LAUS) — the freshest labor signal there is,
about six weeks behind. Read the direction, not the level: a 4% metro that is rising and a 6% metro that is
falling are not telling you the same thing.
Jobs by CRE-relevant sector · 2024
Annual employment by sector (BLS QCEW, 2024; 544,364 jobs in the metro).
QCEW lags — it is the structural read, not the current one, and we pair it with the monthly unemployment above on purpose.
Office-using sums five supersectors; where BLS withholds any one of them for
disclosure, we show nothing rather than a number we know is too low — so a missing sector here means
“suppressed at the source,” not “zero.”
Sector Heat — CMBS distress rate by property type (metro vs national)See the loans behind the bar →
Fewer than 3 loans here are distressed, too few for a distress rate to mean anything — so there is no rate to test against this metro's property mix.
No CMBS sector data for this metro.
Maturity Wall — CMBS coming due by year, distress within eachSee what’s maturing →
$32M — 5% of the metro's balance — matures within two years; the red slice of each bar is already distressed.
Distress Trend — is this market turning?Track it quarter by quarter →
Realized distress is FALLING — 13.2% now (2026-07), -6.0pp over the year.
Same definition as the cards above — distressed means in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, dollar-weighted — on a different clock. The cards are today’s tape; this is the disclosed history panel, quarter by quarter, so you can read direction rather than level. Trusts file monthly, so a quarter is usually well covered within weeks of opening and the newest one shown is normally the current one; it is withheld only when its filed book falls below 60% of recent quarters.
Share of the metro’s CMBS in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, by quarter — a firmer, backward-looking read. A loan under 1.0x DSCR that is still paying is not counted here.
Submarket Heat — where in the metro the distress sitsOpen the submarket →
The top three submarkets hold $565M of the metro's $651M; each bar's colored share is its distress rate.
Bank Door — what the local bank sector could absorbSee it on every loan’s exit read →
$32M of CMBS matures here within two years.
The 16 regional and local banks that gather deposits here could write roughly
$1.2B more CRE before the 300% supervisory line, so the maturing balance is
0.03× that room.
The median metro sits at 0.13×.
Regional Bank Room
$1.2B
After Committed Draws
$753M / −37%
Maturing ÷ Room
0.03×
Banks In Footprint
16 / 5 at the line
The room above is already part-sold. Construction lending is a promise drawn
down over two or three years, and the undrawn part is an obligation the bank cannot decline while the borrower performs
— every one of those dollars lands in the same CRE book the 300% line governs. These banks
have $601M of construction committed and not yet
advanced, of which $445M
comes out of the room above, leaving $753M,
with 6 banks
whose entire remaining room is spoken for.
A bank with no room contributes zero here, never a negative one — capacity does not net
across balance sheets — so $157M of what has
been promised is not deducted at all, because there is nothing left to deduct it from. On today’s
capital that is funding already contracted which would cross the line as it draws.
SR 06-26 draws a second line at 100% of capital for construction and land:
1 more cross it
once their own commitments fund.
Counted — 16 regional & local CRE lenders
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macatawa Bank, National Association MI | 80.8% | 123% total 178%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Mercantile Bank MI | 50.0% | 222% total 311%
|
🔒 | 0.01% |
| Independent Bank MI | 26.7% | 174% total 287%
|
🔒 | 1.65% |
| Choiceone Bank MI | 25.7% | 257% total 393%
|
🔒 | 0.80% |
| Highpoint Community Bank MI | 83.7% | 246% total 369%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Isabella Bank MI | 11.0% | 201% total 290%
|
🔒 | 0.22% |
| Commercial Bank MI | 16.5% | 150% total 232%
|
🔒 | 0.26% |
| First Financial Bank OH | 0.4% | 169% total 215%
|
🔒 | 0.91% |
| First Merchants Bank IN | 0.4% | 183% total 243%
|
🔒 | 0.59% |
| Horizon Bank IN | 1.9% | 235% total 331%
|
🔒 | 0.26% |
| First Community Bank MI | 13.7% | 268% total 520%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Grand River Bank MI | 100.0% | 324% total 527%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| West Michigan Community Bank MI | 78.7% | 303% total 571%
|
🔒 | 0.95% |
| Union Bank MI | 60.0% | 309% total 497%
|
🔒 | 1.74% |
| United Bank Of Michigan MI | 53.3% | 463% total 574%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| First National Bank Of Michigan MI | 15.9% | 480% total 622%
|
🔒 | 1.00% |
Not counted — 12 banks with deposits here
These hold deposits in this metro but are left out of the capacity above, because for them deposit location stops indicating where they lend — or they do not lend CRE at all. Real money that could refinance here is deliberately not counted.
no CRE book — CRE under 100% of capital — not a CRE lender
Northpointe Bank MI · Fifth Third Bank, National Association OH · The Huntington National Bank OH · Jpmorgan Chase Bank, National Association OH · Pnc Bank, National Association DE · Bank Of America, National Association NC · First National Bank Of America MI · The Northern Trust Company IL · Sidney State Bank MI · Eaton Community Bank MI
national — operates in more than 5 states, so deposits stop indicating where it lends
* Two ratios, two perimeters.
The large figure is supervisory CRE over total risk-based capital —
construction, multifamily and non-owner-occupied nonfarm nonresidential. That is the book SR 06-26 draws its
300% line against, and it is what the red coloring and the room contributed are both measured on.
Total beneath it adds owner-occupied CRE — lending to a business on
its own premises — which the guidance deliberately leaves out. A bank can sit well above 300% on total CRE and
still be inside the line, with real room to lend; both are shown so the gap is visible rather than surprising.
How to read this. It is not whether any particular loan can refinance — a borrower also reaches
national banks, life companies, agencies and debt funds. It is how much of this metro’s maturing volume the local
bank sector could absorb if it were the only door.
Banks are placed by deposit share (FDIC Summary of Deposits, June 2026) — a proxy for
where they lend, not a measurement; call reports carry no collateral geography. Room = 3× total risk-based capital less CRE held
(SR 06-26, the capital base the rule names — not book equity), from Q2 2026 call reports, apportioned by that share.
Committed construction comes from FFIEC Schedule RC-L as filed at 2026-06-30 —
the undrawn half of loans already written, which the balance sheet above does not show.
Banks in more than 5 states, single-branch bookers and banks that do not lend CRE are excluded —
315 banks holding $263.8B of national capacity not counted here.
Local Lenders — banks headquartered here, worst CRE noncurrent firstUnlock each bank’s early-warning flag →
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northpointe Bank | $122M | 17% total 17%
|
4.57% | 🔒 |
| Union Bank | $188M | 309% total 497%
|
1.74% | 🔒 |
| Independent Bank | $1.7B | 174% total 287%
|
1.65% | 🔒 |
| West Michigan Community Bank | $634M | 303% total 571%
|
0.95% | 🔒 |
| Choiceone Bank | $1.7B | 257% total 393%
|
0.80% | 🔒 |
| Mercantile Bank | $2.4B | 222% total 311%
|
0.01% | 🔒 |
| Grand River Bank | $299M | 324% total 527%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
| Macatawa Bank, National Association | $684M | 123% total 178%
|
0.00% | 🔒 |
* Two ratios, two perimeters.
The large figure is supervisory CRE over total risk-based capital —
construction, multifamily and non-owner-occupied nonfarm nonresidential. That is the book SR 06-26 draws its
300% line against, and it is what the red coloring and the room contributed are both measured on.
Total beneath it adds owner-occupied CRE — lending to a business on
its own premises — which the guidance deliberately leaves out. A bank can sit well above 300% on total CRE and
still be inside the line, with real room to lend; both are shown so the gap is visible rather than surprising.
Banks are matched to their HQ metro (a proxy for footprint). Noncurrent CRE = CRE-balance-weighted blend of multifamily / nonresidential / construction noncurrent (distress already arrived). Early Warning is a validated leading signal — the bank’s 30-89 early-delinquency rank among all CRE lenders this quarter, which has predicted ~2.3× forward CRE distress. Per-bank flags are on a plan.
On The Ground — recent closures, layoffs & CRE bankruptciesTie these events to loans →
16 local distress events in the past year (348 jobs) — store closures, layoffs, and commercial real estate bankruptcies near this metro's collateral.
2026-10-16
CLOSURE
Grand Rapids
2026-08-19
CLOSURE
Grand Rapids
2026-08-18
CLOSURE
Grand Rapids
2026-08-18
LAYOFF
Grand Rapids
2026-08-05
LAYOFF
Flint
2026-07-14
LAYOFF
200 jobs · Grand Rapids
2026-06-08
BANKRUPTCY
CRE-linked bankruptcy
2026-05-26
CLOSURE
Grand Rapids
2026-04-28
CLOSURE
Grand Rapids
2026-04-06
BANKRUPTCY
CRE-linked bankruptcy
2026-04-06
BANKRUPTCY
CRE-linked bankruptcy
2026-03-31
CLOSURE
Grandville
2026-03-31
LAYOFF
58 jobs · Grand Rapids
2026-02-04
CLOSURE
Grand Rapids
2026-01-31
CLOSURE
Kentwood
What has actually happened on the ground in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI recently?
Over the trailing 365 days, the Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI metro shows 10 store closures, 6 WARN notices, and 348 jobs affected — the latter a floor, since notices stating no headcount count but contribute no jobs. On the credit side, cre_bankruptcies reads 3, but that figure is a STATE PROXY: it counts CRE-likely filings in the states this metro's collateral sits in, not a metro-native count, so it should not be read as local distress.
The figures behind this answer
- Store closures
- 10
- WARN layoff notices
- 6
- Jobs on those notices
- 348
- CRE-related bankruptcies
- 3
- Window, in days
- 365
STATE PROXY — a court case counts in its filing district and an SEC 8-K in the filer's state, not where the property is, so this counts CRE-likely filings in the states this metro's collateral sits in. It is not a metro-native count. Each court case is counted once even when both PACER and CourtListener carry it. A court case's state is its filing district; an SEC 8-K or news item carries the filer's state. Coverage widened to both court feeds on 2026-09-16, so counts before and after that date are not comparable.
affected_employees is nullable — notices that state no headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs, so this is a floor.
Closures are matched ZIP -> CBSA and only APPROVED rows count (a pending, machine-extracted row is not yet a closure). This mirrors the Metro Pulse page, not the convergence board — the board applies neither filter and counts higher. Layoffs take the same ZIP -> CBSA and review treatment, and a WARN notice counts if it affects >= 10 people or does not state a headcount (a NULL is not 'fewer than 10').
Written from the figures above · CBSA 24340 · geo_events · last changed 18 Oct 2026
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Everything above is a snapshot — one market, as it stands today, and
it’s yours to read. What a snapshot can’t tell you is when it moves: which loan slipped a DSCR band
this month, which bank’s early-warning rank crossed into the top quartile, which submarket started turning
while the headline number still looked fine. Distress doesn’t announce itself on the day you happen to check.
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