Hazel Dale Plat

Looking at five acres of platted residential land in the Homecrest Area, Hazel Dale sits close enough to downtown Grand Rapids—about nine minutes by car—that you're not really choosing between suburb and city so much as picking a neighborhood with actual breathing room. A coffee shop is a five-minute walk away, and the nearest transit stop is four minutes on foot, which means you're not entirely car-dependent if you don't want to be; forty-eight restaurants within a mile give you decent dinner options without having to plan an expedition. Hillcroft Park is a seven-minute walk, and there are five parks total within a mile, so green space isn't something you have to drive to find. Homes here run in the mid-$200,000s, and the area falls under Godwin Heights Public Schools. If you're looking at the Homecrest Area in general, Hazel Dale Plat is the kind of subdivision that doesn't try too hard—it's just close to what you need, both literally and in terms of how quickly you can get there.