The Croswell Townhomes

The real selling point here isn't the townhome itself—it's that you can walk to a grocery store in three minutes and hit a restaurant in seconds, then catch transit two minutes away if you actually need to go somewhere. East Grand Rapids Public Schools feeds this area, and downtown is a nine-minute drive when the mood strikes. Reeds Lake sits less than a mile off, which matters if you're the type to actually use water access rather than just admire it from real estate photos. John Collins Park is a five-minute walk, one of five parks within a mile, so the nature proximity is real without requiring a pilgrimage. The Croswell sits in Mary M. Bonnells Sub. Area, where errands score a perfect 10 and dining ranks at 9—meaning you're surrounded by actual restaurants and actual shops, not the theoretical kind. Homes here run around $1.1M, and the units sit on roughly 0.29 acres apiece, which in this walkable pocket of real estate feels generous rather than cramped. If you've lived in enough places to know that "close to everything" usually means "close to a highway," you'll recognize what's happening here: this is the kind of location where proximity actually translates to usable access.