Joan G. Jansma Add.

—and if you're looking at the Jansma Addition proper, you're working with about eight acres of tightly gridded lots—a quarter-acre apiece, give or take—that sit right in the thick of Highland Park, where a coffee shop and a restaurant are basically a step or two away and downtown Grand Rapids is less than eight minutes by car. The dining scene alone has 144 restaurants within a mile, which means you're never short on options when you can't face cooking, and transit access is immediate—no waiting around. Homes here run around $319K, and while the lots are modest, the location punches well above its weight: you're close enough to walk to errands and fitness spots, distant enough from the airport to dodge the drone of jets, and hemmed in by a neighborhood that's spent the better part of thirty years building something genuinely deliberate out of these tight little blocks.