Meadows Crossing Blog

When it comes time to choose an apartment community, it’s easy to get distracted by the new and shiny and not focus on what really matters for good living. The most important qualities of an apartment community are not always immediately obvious but become apparent after you’ve lived there for some time. Often people will […]

The Retail Shoppes at Meadows Crossing are a very special amenity for the students living at Meadows Crossing. They’re home to the best leisure and entertainment hot spots, including Cottage Inn Pizza, Gentlemen’s Quarters Barber Salon, Hip Party Store, and now Insomnia Cookies! Insomnia Cookies has opened a store at the Meadows Crossing Retail Shoppes. That […]

One issue that many apartment dwellers struggle with is a lack of space. This can be especially challenging for the person who has to share an apartment with a number of roommates as the space is divided and divided again until there is nowhere left to put anything. College students have storage needs to accommodate […]

When GVSU students move into their new apartments or townhomes, they are focused on the immediate and tangible problems of moving: carrying their belongings in, setting up their rooms, finding space for everything, and getting settled. Too often they overlook the very important step of communicating with their roommates the practicalities of how they will […]

When it comes to apartment marketing, too much of the information out there is social media noise. Internet memes, Funny or Die videos, and inspirational quotes don’t tell you anything you really need to know about life in any given apartment complex, but too often this is what apartment managers put up on social media. […]

Recently ApartmentRatings contacted us at Meadows Crossing to alert us that we had won the 2018 ApartmentRatings Top Rated Award for outstanding resident satisfaction! We are pleased and proud to share this news with you. ApartmentRatings.com is the Internet’s most comprehensive forum for renters nationwide to share renting experiences and opinions. Meadows Crossing strives to offer […]

Recently ApartmentRatings contacted us at Meadows Crossing to alert us that we had won the 2017 ApartmentRatings Top Rated Award for outstanding resident satisfaction! We are pleased and proud to share this news with you. ApartmentRatings.com is the Internet’s most comprehensive forum for renters nationwide to share renting experiences and opinions. Meadows Crossing strives to offer […]

West Michigan can be a bleak place in the wintertime. We have long stretches when there is little sunshine and the weather is too cold and windy to be outside for long. This lack of sun causes problems. Many GVSU students struggle to keep their spirits up or to feel energetic enough to accomplish the […]

One factor few college students take into consideration when they choose a place to live is parking. This is important for a number of reasons. The first is that any student with a car will need a place – a safe place – to park. The second is that they will want their friends and […]