Oakdale Park Add

Early morning light hits these tree-lined blocks best, when the Victorian and early-20th-century homes show their real bones—brick chimneys, deep porches, the kind of architectural detail that rewards a slow walk. This amended plat sits right in the Southeast End, an urban-suburban pocket about 10 minutes from downtown Grand Rapids, with Oakdale Gardens park immediately adjacent and nine parks within a mile. The neighborhood runs on foot traffic and transit—a bus stop is three minutes away on foot, and restaurants scatter within walking distance, with grocers a mile or so out. You're roughly 22 minutes from Gerald R. Ford Airport if you need it, but mostly you stay local: coffee shops, six restaurants, and forty-some grocery stores within two miles keep daily life close. Homes here run around $275,000 on average, moving in about two weeks. River City Scholars Charter Academy serves the area, and the whole stretch has that rare feel of being close to everything without the East Grand Rapids property tax hit.