Atlanta News

372 readers

38 users here now

News about Atlanta, auto-sourced from RSS feeds of local and regional media. User names indicate the news source.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

michael@yall.theatl.social

Images: How duplex housing has sprung from blighted corner (atlanta.urbanize.city)

submitted 1 day ago by UrbanizeAtlNewsBot@yall.theatl.social to c/atlantanews@yall.theatl.social

0 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Images: How duplex housing has sprung from blighted corner Josh Green Thu, 03/20/2025 - 15:48 In recent months, a pocket of new Howell Station duplexes has sprung up on formerly blighted properties within earshot of the Atlanta Beltline’s growing Westside Trail.

Incorporating brick and metal cladding, the relatively minimal residences have replaced a long-vacant row of dilapidated buildings and empty lots near the corner of West Marietta Street and Longley Avenue.

Developers initially filed plans in summer 2022 for the dozen duplex buildings, or 24 homes total, on a Howell Station block fronting West Marietta Street, just east of the Beltline.

Previous plans showed two rows of six buildings situated around the block, with a pervious driveway and parking spaces—but no garages, and no covered parking—in between. That was later changed.

The project's facades along West Marietta Street today. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Covered parking and garage entries at the eastern portion of the construction site today.Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Designs compiled by Atlanta-based Gotsch Studio indicate each duplex will have base levels with one-car garages, foyers, and offices. Above that will be the main living level, and third floors would see two bedrooms and bathrooms.

Average square footages (1,353 initially) were increased by about 220 square feet, the most recent plans show.

The five parcels in question are owned by an LLC called WPCS. Paces Ferry Builders and B+C Studio landscape architects are also listed in permitting records as being involved.

We reached out to project officials this week for information on when the duplexes will deliver—and what they will cost—but no responses had come before press time.

Condition of buildings at the corner of Longley Avenue and West Marietta Street, next to empty properties at right, prior to construction in 2023. Google Maps

Looking west, toward the Beltline, along West Marietta Street. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

The duplexes continue a spate of investment in the West Marietta Street corridor, due west of Midtown, in recent years.

A few blocks east, the area’s first condo tower—the glassy, 22-story Seven88 West Midtown—debut 279 units in the waning days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Remaining unsold units there more recently switched to rental housing.

Also nearby, the QTS Data Centers expansion project calls for roughly 400 stacked multifamily units and townhomes to eventually be built along West Marietta Street, too. So far, the data center has delivered, but housing of any type has yet to move forward.

Meanwhile, Beltline officials say the full Westside Trail is on pace to deliver sometime this spring. That will provide a paved, off-street pathway from downtown, out to the mainline loop, and then down around to Pittsburgh Yards.

Find a closer look and more context for the West Marietta Street duplexes in the gallery above.

The revised Howell Station site plan shows floorplans with one-car garage slots. Gotsch Studio/B+C Studio