Veenstra Plat

Tell someone on the way there: "It's small—five acres, homes in the $370Ks—but you're basically inside the city and ten minutes from downtown." That's the pitch. What you actually get is a tight grid of modest lots (under a third-acre each) in Richmond-Oakleigh, where the school district is Grand Rapids Public Schools, there are twenty-four restaurants within a mile, and a grocery within a twelve-minute walk. The nearest coffee shop is a drive, but Brian Dyk Nature Preserve is a nine-minute walk away, and you've got three parks clustered nearby for the stuff people actually do on weekends. It's the kind of place where you're not paying for land—you're paying for location, density, and the fact that you can reach the Gerald R. Ford Airport in under half an hour.