New Construction & Development in Grandville

Grandville doesn't get talked about as a new-construction market, but there is more getting built here than most buyers realize. In this brief, I'll walk you through what's actually under construction, who's building it, what it costs, and the development news reshaping the RiverTown corridor. First, the setting. Grandville sits about twelve minutes southwest of downtown Grand Rapids, along the Grand River and the I-196 corridor. That commute is a big reason new inventory here gets absorbed as fast as it gets built. Here's what you need to understand about building in Grandville: the city is compact and largely built out. New construction here mostly means infill, condos and townhomes, and new phases at the city's edges, not big greenfield subdivisions. That limited supply shapes how this market moves. Some baseline numbers before the projects. Grandville is home to about sixteen thousand people. The typical home is valued just under three hundred fifty thousand dollars, listings go pending in about nine days, and downtown Grand Rapids is roughly twelve minutes away. The headline residential project is The Highlands at Rivertown Park, off Ivanrest Avenue at the city's edge, in the Grandville Public Schools district. It's the final phase of the Rivertown Park development: thirty-four townhome-style condos built by Interra Homes and Redstone Homes. Units run three bedrooms and roughly eighteen hundred square feet, priced from the mid three hundreds, with completions continuing into twenty twenty-six. Put the whole build sheet together and it comes down to five things: the final-phase townhomes at Rivertown Park, the redevelopment underway at RiverTown Crossings, new outlot construction along the Rivertown corridor, infill and condo projects inside the city limits, and new builds carrying Grandville Public Schools addresses at the edges of town. Now, price. The typical Grandville home is valued just under three hundred fifty thousand dollars, a few percent above the Kent County median of three hundred thirty-five thousand. Four-bedroom two-stories generally trade between four hundred and five hundred twenty-five thousand, so mid-threes townhome product slots in under the move-up market. The biggest development story is RiverTown Crossings. The mall sold to Poag Development Group in August twenty twenty-four, with plans that include a hotel, more retail, and residential on the property. Since then, the former Macy's closed this past March with re-tenanting already in motion, Celebration Cinema wrapped the first phase of a five-point-eight-million-dollar renovation, and a Raising Cane's is slated for the former Sears Auto Center site by late twenty twenty-six. Here's my take. Most new construction around Grand Rapids asks you to trade commute for price. Grandville is the exception: you're buying new at close to the county median, twelve minutes from downtown, and the market has clearly figured that out. Here's how Grandville prices against its neighbors. It sits below Hudsonville and Jenison on the metro's west side, and above Wyoming next door. For buyers cross-shopping new builds across the southwest corridor, Grandville is the middle path on price with the shortest hop to downtown. And you don't get time to deliberate. The typical Grandville listing goes pending in about nine days, matching the fastest pace in the metro. New construction is the workaround: you're buying off a builder's release schedule instead of fighting over resale inventory. What you're buying into is the RiverTown corridor. You get the retail and restaurant base around the mall, parks along the Grand River, and the Kent Trails route running through town, plus direct access to I-196 and M-6. If you want in on new construction here, my advice is simple. Get pre-approved before you tour a model, ask the builder what's actually completing this year versus next, and treat final-phase releases like the deadline they are. When a project like Rivertown Park closes out, that inventory is gone. Grandville isn't a high-volume build market, and that's exactly the point: limited new supply meeting nine-day demand, twelve minutes from downtown. If a new build here fits your plan, let's talk timing before the next release.