J.W. Converse Plat

What catches people off guard is how much green space crowds into a neighborhood just minutes from downtown—nearly half the 20 acres here is park, and you're steps from restaurants and a transit stop while also being within a three-minute walk of Ah-Nab-Awen Park and a dog park. The subdivision sits inside John Ball Park, where the zoo anchors the whole area, but the real draw for residents is the walk-ability to dining—462 restaurants within a mile—mixed with the kind of space you'd normally have to drive for. Grand Rapids Public Schools serves the area, and if you're commuting downtown, you're looking at 3.5 minutes; the airport is about 20 minutes out. Homes here run in the $300K range, and you get the sense people are choosing this spot deliberately—close enough to city life to skip the car on most days, far enough into the neighborhood proper that you're not living above a bar.