Caulfield's Addition

You're about seven minutes from downtown, which is closer than you'd think given how much space there is here—21 acres laid out around what used to be railroad grounds, now knitted back into the Southwest neighborhood with actual breathing room. The platted lots run through what's essentially a quieter pocket of the city, though you're never far from what you need: a coffee shop is a nine-minute walk, restaurants number in the dozens within a mile, and the nearest transit stop is four minutes away. Caulfield Park sits just down the block, and there are seven parks scattered within the surrounding mile, so the land here doesn't feel isolated so much as deliberate, the kind of place where you're choosing space without choosing distance from the rest of the city. Kids attend schools in the Grand Rapids Public Schools district, and if you ever want to launch a boat on the Grand River, Butterworth Park's less than a mile out.