Allyn'S Add.

Allyn's Add. looks like any other 15-acre pocket of older Grand Rapids at first—modest lots, vintage brick and wood-frame houses—then you realize you're standing three minutes from downtown and surrounded by 571 restaurants within a mile. The subdivision sits in Midtown, where a coffee shop is practically your neighbor, the nearest transit stop is steps away, and a grocery is a ten-minute walk, which means you can live here without treating your car like a second mortgage. Homes run around $401K, with Grand Rapids Public Schools serving the area. Baldwin Park is a three-minute walk, and if you count the 29 parks within a mile, you're looking at more green space than most people expect from a neighborhood this close to the city. Those who end up here tend to stay—the kind of place where the walk to dinner is shorter than the decision about where to go.