West Bank Grand River Plat

This original plat sits at the historic core of John Ball Park, where the Grand River bends west and First and Front Streets form the spine of a neighborhood that's equal parts green space and genuine urban convenience—you're three minutes from downtown, but also steps from a transit stop and surrounded by 30 parks within a mile. The dining scene here is serious (438 restaurants nearby, with a 9.4 walkability score for food), and you can grab coffee or walk a dog in under ten minutes, which matters more than it sounds when you're living on streets this old. Grand Rapids Public Schools serves the area, and the bones of this subdivision—its amended streets and original lot divisions—still carry the geometry of a city that knew how to build neighborhoods before we forgot how.