Avenue 23

What might surprise you about Avenue 23 is that it's less "condo development" and more "a pocket of newer construction in the heart of Heritage Hill, where the houses around you were built when Teddy Roosevelt was president." You're looking at homes in the $199K range on a quarter-acre plot, surrounded by 1,300 Victorian and Arts-and-Crafts originals—the kind of neighborhood where Frank Lloyd Wright left fingerprints. Downtown Grand Rapids is 2.8 minutes away by car, which means you can be at a restaurant in a 3-minute walk or a coffee shop in 7. There are 528 restaurants within a mile, 30 parks within the same radius, and a transit stop steps from your door. The grocery store is less than a mile out. Baldwin Park—about a 4-minute walk—sits nearby if you want green space without leaving the block, and Butterworth Park's boat launch is 1.8 miles away for anyone with water ambitions. Your kids would attend Grand Rapids Public Schools. The walkability score hovers at 5.8 overall, but dining and transit are both strong—which makes sense for a place this central. Gerald R. Ford International is 22.5 minutes north if you fly out regularly. You're not buying into some marketing promise of "new condo community"—you're buying into one of the largest historic districts in the country, just with a different year on your roof.