60 Monroe Center St NW
A landmark home in the heart of downtown Grand Rapids—twenty-five residences, a rooftop with a 360° view, and the city at your door.
Cityview is for people who want the energy of downtown without giving up the feeling of coming home. The tower is a 1916 Classical Revival bank that became twenty-five condominiums—intimate enough that neighbors know one another, close enough to everything that an evening out is a short walk, not a plan. If you are looking for a place in Grand Rapids, this is what life here actually feels like.
The building
Granite, Doric columns, and a terra-cotta cornice were designed for a bank that meant to last. The residences keep that character—tall windows, nine-foot ceilings, and views over Monroe Center—and add the comforts of a well-kept condominium. You come home through a secured entrance to a building that still turns heads on the corner.
Cityview is not a glass tower dropped onto a parking lot. It is one of downtown’s most recognizable addresses, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and it is a home first. Read the story of 60 Monroe Center.
Amenities
The association looks after the places residents use every day—and the ones they save for a clear evening.
Rooftop
The shared rooftop deck looks out over the whole city: the river, the arena lights, and the grid of downtown. Patio seating, a grill, and a fireplace make it the building’s living room in the open air—sunrise coffee, a Saturday cookout, or fireworks over the river.
Storage
Each residence includes a private storage unit in the lower level. Seasonal things, extra furnishings, and the pieces of city living that do not belong in the hallway stay close, locked, and out of the way.
Bicycles
Dedicated bike storage keeps frames off the unit and ready for a ride along the river or a quick trip across downtown. Grand Rapids is easy on two wheels from this corner.
Access
Residents enter through secured building access and private elevator halls. Common areas are cared for year-round. The building feels looked after because it is—by people who live here.
The community
Twenty-five residences is a community you can know. Owners serve on the board. Decisions stay close to the people they affect. There is room to be involved, and room simply to live well—without the distance that comes when a building is so large that neighbors stay strangers.
That scale shows up in ordinary ways: a familiar face in the elevator, a rooftop evening that does not have to be reserved months ahead, and an association that can still listen.
Downtown
Monroe Center is the city’s living room. From this corner you walk to dinner, a concert, a gallery opening, or a Saturday at the market—often without crossing a parking garage first.
Rosa Parks Circle is a short stroll: summer concerts and the winter ice rink, with the Grand Rapids Art Museum facing the plaza. Brick and Porter sits at 47 Monroe Center, across the street. Leo’s, a longtime downtown seafood house, is around the corner on Ottawa. The pedestrian stretch of Monroe Center is your front walk.
Van Andel Arena, 20 Monroe Live, DeVos Performance Hall, and Grand Rapids Civic Theatre are all a comfortable walk. Grand Rapids Ballet, Broadway tours, the Griffins, and visiting acts are part of the neighborhood calendar—not a special trip across town.
The Grand River, Blue Bridge, and Ah-Nab-Awen Park are a few minutes west. The Grand Rapids Public Museum and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum sit along the river. Heritage Hill’s historic streets begin just east. Medical Mile and GVSU’s Pew Campus are close enough for a morning walk to work or class.
Tables & taps
Grand Rapids has been named Michigan’s best food city and one of the country’s great beer cities. From Cityview you can treat that as a commute measured in minutes.
Start next door at Brick and Porter, or book Leo’s for a classic downtown dinner. San Chez has been the city’s tapas landmark for decades; Roam by San Chez is around the corner. Stella’s Lounge earned a national reputation for its burger. MDRD, high above the river, brought Spanish cooking to a skyline room that reviewers still talk about. Allora, Littlebird, and Tupelo Honey fill out a walkable circuit of tables you will actually use on a weeknight.
Beer City is not a slogan from this address. Founders is a short walk south. B.O.B.’s Brewery, New Holland’s Knickerbocker, City Built, and Fountain Hill are all in the downtown orbit. The Grand Rapids Downtown Market gathers more than twenty kitchens and makers under one roof when you want a Saturday that stays close to home.
Arts & seasons
The Grand Rapids Art Museum is essentially a neighbor—101 Monroe Center, on Rosa Parks Circle. ArtPrize turns downtown into an open-air gallery every other fall; living here means walking out into it. Civic Theatre and a dense stretch of murals keep the arts from ever feeling like a destination you have to drive to. Brand-new on the river, the Acrisure Amphitheater is already one of downtown’s biggest draws: a 12,000-seat outdoor stage at Market Avenue, a walk from the front door, with the kind of summer lineup that used to mean leaving the city.
Winter brings the ice rink at Rosa Parks Circle. Summer fills the plaza, the riverfront, and now the amphitheater lawn. Festival season, First Fridays, and a packed arena calendar are the backdrop, not a special occasion.
This is the rare downtown where you can live in a historic tower and still feel the city changing around you—new kitchens, new murals, the same walk home.
Parking
Cityview residents park at the Pearl / Ionia ramp, a block from the building. The City of Grand Rapids reserves downtown residential permits for that ramp: 24-hour access, any day of the week, for people who can show they live downtown. You keep a car when you want one—and you do not have to hunt for a space on Monroe after dinner. Many days you will leave it there. Most of what you need is already outside the front door.
Wellness
MVP Metro Club is one block north at 33 Fountain Street—three floors of strength space, group classes, and locker rooms in the middle of downtown. If you prefer something smaller, Fitness Together is on Monroe Center itself. The David D. Hunting YMCA on Lake Michigan Drive is a pleasant walk when you want pools and a larger campus. Between the river paths, the rooftop stairs, and a gym you can reach before the coffee cools, staying active here does not require a commute.
Welcome
Units reach the market from time to time through local listing services. The association is glad to answer questions about the building, the community, and life at 60 Monroe Center. If Cityview already feels like the right scale of downtown, we would like to hear from you.