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Out here in West Grand, this stretch sits so close to downtown Grand Rapids you can be there in about six minutes, which means you're getting neighborhood texture without the commute tax—two acres planted squarely in what used to be furniture-industry housing, now the kind of place where a ten-minute walk gets you groceries, coffee, and a restaurant or three, sometimes four. Harrison Park is eight minutes on foot, and the Grand River boat launch at Comstock Riverside is just over a mile if you're the type who keeps a kayak handy. Transit stops are steps away, and you've got over a hundred restaurants within a mile—pierogi joints, taquerias, breweries, the works—which means the neighborhood still runs on the immigrant traditions and working-class bones that built it a century ago. Under Grand Rapids Public Schools, and walkable enough that running errands doesn't require second-guessing yourself.