12 WASHINGTON CENTER

The median home value here sits at $909K—not exactly cheap, but a condo in a place where you can step out your door and reach a restaurant in about as long as it takes to find your keys. That's the actual math: 138 restaurants within a mile, a grocery store a two-minute walk away, and coffee shops close enough that the commute feels like a choice rather than a chore. You're literally adjacent to Depot Pavilion, with 25 parks within a mile, so if the weather turns decent, you won't need much excuse to leave the unit. The Grand Haven Area Public Schools service the area, and Grand Haven beach is a genuinely quick 1.2 minutes by car—the kind of proximity that makes "Let's go to the beach" an actual thing you do on a Tuesday afternoon rather than a weekend production. Downtown Grand Rapids runs about 45 minutes north if you need the city, but honestly, with dining and errands scoring 10 and 8 on walkability respectively, you might not miss it much. This is the Washington Avenue & North 2nd Street Area, which means you're in the kind of central location where you can walk to almost everything and drive nowhere takes very long.