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Downtown Plainwell

Eat, shop and explore the Island City's downtown.

Eat, shop, explore

Restaurants and pubs

Plainwell has a unique variety of restaurants and pubs.

10th Street Saloon
Barbed Wire Cafe
Bloom Eatery
Dog & The Bank
Joe's Pizza & Sports Bar
River Road Foods
MI Grounds Play Cafe
Mayor's Joint
Old Mill Brewpub & Grill
Taqueria San Francisco Bar & Grill

Shopping

Unique boutiques offering a great shopping experience in Plainwell.

Ace Hardware
Another Man's Treasure
Bridge St. Gallery/Island City Tea Shop
Bushel & A Peck
Campbell's Pharmacy
DragonFly Quilts
Embers Guitar Station
Fortress of Solitude
Hart's Jewelry
Passiflora
Perfect Image Salon
Plainwell Antiques
Plainwell Flowers
Plainwell NAPA Auto
Prevalent Boutique
Stitch Bits and Bobs
The Smoke Shop
The Rabbit Boutiques

Sweet treats

Treats you can't pass up. Some of Southwest Michigan's best ice cream is found here in Plainwell.

Dean's Ice Cream
Plainwell Ice Cream
SW Donut Mill
Wesco Donuts

Parks

Look no further than our Riverwalk along the Mill Race and Kalamazoo River. It connects three of our parks!

The Riverwalk connects Hicks Park, Fannie Pell Park, the band shell and Sherwood Park
Thurl Cook Park has a fun playground, sledding hill, dog park, 5 pickleball courts and a pavilion
Kenyon Park is our sports park, with softball fields and open green space for soccer and flag football, plus a pavilion
Sherwood Park offers a wonderful playground, basketball courts and the Veterans Memorial
Hicks Park offers terrific views of the Kalamazoo River, a playground and picnic tables
Fannie Pell is the perfect park for pictures, weddings and picnics with friends. It is home to Plainwell Kayak Co.

All about our parks

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Flower program

Thank you to everyone who donates to the Flower Program. All contributions, large and small, support the maintenance and planting of all the flowers and plant beds in our parks, on our bridges, and in other green spaces. Donations are accepted all year.

Please send the form with your donation:

Flower donation formPDF

Interested in volunteering for the Flower Committee? Email Public Works.

Thank you to our 2025 Flower Program donors and volunteers

Cathy Green, Cut N' Loose, Dee-Tails Doggie Daycare, Donnie's Auto Repair, Doris Dorgan, Drug & Lab Disposal, Inc., FBN Sales, Fleis & Vandenbrink, Inc., Cornell & Assoc Real Estate, H & H Auto Body, John Beck, Hart's Jewelry, Marsha Keeler, Constance Kratzer, Lapham Heating & Cooling, Inc., Dick & Diana Lubic, McCowen & Secord, Plainwell Flowers, Plainwell Ice Cream, Preferred Plastics, Roots Canvas Shop, Sherwood Gardens, Star Accounting Service, Steensma Lawn & Power, Taqueria San Francisco, Barb Reed & Rick Updike

A flower bed planted by the Flower Program

Public art

Welcome to Plainwell's public art. The Plainwell Arts Council (also on Facebook) helped set up Plainwell's Public Art Procurement Program, which showcases public art on an annual basis, combining art with economic development by enhancing Plainwell's "sense of place" while meeting these goals:

Commission public art for permanent placement in Plainwell and its surroundings.
Inventory current public art and add commissioned pieces to the list to develop an "art trail" for residents and visitors.
Use human capital and cultural resources to generate economic vitality through tourism and cultural attractions.
Expand public experience with public art; increase awareness of and participation in public art.
Integrate artworks and the ideas of artists into a variety of public settings, to contribute to the City's sense of identity.
Develop a sense of history and community identity through public art.
Enhance urban design objectives with public art.

The Public Art Procurement Program complements the Plainwell Arts Council's mission, "Art for All," and sees the benefits to the community, especially if, with time, a critical mass of public art can be inventoried to develop an eventual art trail throughout the City. In its first year, the program's 2012 pilot project was the "Renaissance Race" sculpture at the entrance plaza of City Hall, in Fannie Pell Park, in the central business district. The second piece, "Iron Archer," was installed in Plainwell's downtown plaza and dedicated May 30, 2013. These are expected to be the first in a series of public art projects, and a way to support a city-wide public art policy.