The Seymour

The brick exterior hits you first—those original walls from the old Seymour Christian School, carefully preserved and tuckpointed, now wrapped around 27 new homes. What was a vacant building is now a real address, and the work shows: energy-efficient windows set into the old openings, a second story lifted onto the existing frame, a shared courtyard where people actually know they'll run into each other. The project finished in September 2025, and new owners are moving in right now. Homes here run around $176K, which is deliberate—this is affordable housing built to last, developed by ICCF Community Homes to keep costs down for first-time buyers through a community land trust model. You're two acres in Alger Heights, with Grand Rapids Public Schools nearby, and the location does the heavy lifting: a park is a two-minute walk, a grocery two minutes more, restaurants within a minute or two—36 of them within a mile. Transit stops are basically at your door. Downtown is ten minutes away if you need it, the airport seventeen. It's the kind of neighborhood where someone deliberately preserved brick walls instead of tearing them down, which tells you something about how the place thinks.