With a plan to become a walkable, transit-oriented, sustainable community high atop the hill overlooking the city, Grand Rapids’ Belknap Lookout is doing what it set out to do — attracting urban professionals and giving property values a boost.
According to excerpts from the story:
A Grand Rapids neighborhood is taking advantage of the construction along “Medical Mile”.
It's the Belknap neighborhood which sits directly across I-196 to the north.
Marie Zylstra Ippel and her family are just a few of the new neighbors. They love the location. Marie says her husband's job is a few blocks away, “so, he walks to work every day, so we don't need a 2nd car."
Read the complete story here.
Enjoy this story?
Sign up for free solutions-based reporting in your inbox each week.