As a child, George DeWitt left his Baton Rouge, La., home each summer to build sand castles on the shores of Lake Michigan at his ... DeWitt, now a Grand Rapids-area architect and designer ...

The business, with 50 employees on Comstock Street, earned the Michigan Family-Owned Business ... on Fulton Street and Front Avenue in Grand Rapids. DeWitt Barrels opened it in 1937, giving ...