THE GABLES MARINA CONDOS

If you're heading to The Gables Marina Condos, know upfront: you're getting waterfront living without the downtown Marina District price tag. Located in the Harbor Point Area, this two-acre condo community sits seven minutes from Grand Haven beach—close enough that you can wake up and be in the sand before lunch. The setting is low-key and residential, the kind of place where you've got nine parks within a mile and Spring Lake less than a mile and a half away. Downtown Grand Rapids runs about forty-five minutes if you need city access, but most days you won't be thinking about it. Sunnyside Park is a seven-minute walk, and the neighborhood has the density and restaurant concentration you'd expect from a West Michigan waterfront area: seventy-two restaurants within a mile, plus a dozen grocery stores in a two-mile radius if you're stocking the condo.