Fairway Estates Village of Fairfield

What catches most people off guard about this condo community is how much breathing room you get on 17 acres—the kind of space that doesn't usually come with shared walls. Homes here run around $290K, which means you're getting into a developed neighborhood without the price tag of someplace closer to downtown Grand Rapids (17 minutes away if you need it). The layout centers on a pocket of West Michigan that actually has grocery access; thirty-six stores sit within two miles, with a supermarket about a mile and a quarter down the road and dinner roughly the same distance. A coffee shop takes a short drive at 1.8 miles, and if you want to get outside, Georgetown Community Park is just over a mile away—Kenowa Lake sits another half-mile beyond that. Jenison Public Schools covers the area, and the community itself is part of the larger 14th Avenue & Van Buren Street Area, a zone that's developed enough to have services but laid-back enough that you're not crammed in. Getting to Gerald R. Ford International takes about 26 minutes, which is reasonable if you travel often. The whole thing amounts to a middle-ground play: condo living that doesn't feel like living in a complex, solid access to errands and schools, and enough distance from the urban core to actually relax.