35 Michigan Street Condominium

Look for this place at dusk, when the light hits the brick just right and you can actually see why someone chose a condo here instead of a house. You're steps from a restaurant—seriously, the nearest one is practically on your doorstep—and a transit stop that doesn't require a car conversation. The coffee shops are a three-minute walk, Crescent Park is three minutes in the other direction, and there are 32 parks within a mile if you're the type who needs options. A grocery store sits less than a mile away, and if you've got a dog, there's a dedicated park about fourteen minutes on foot. Downtown Grand Rapids is a 2.7-minute drive, which means you're close enough to actually use it without resenting the commute, and Gerald R. Ford Airport is twenty minutes away when you need it. The Grand Rapids Public Schools district serves the area. Homes here run in the mid-to-upper range for a one-acre condo community in Downtown, where you're paying for location and density rather than land. This works if you've lived in enough places to know that walkability to actual restaurants, actual transit, and actual parks beats a yard you'll never use. There are 486 restaurants within a mile—that number alone tells you something about what living here means. You're not buying into a development; you're buying into a block with everything already there.