First look: Modern-style residential project bound for Adair Park

Josh Green

Wed, 12/11/2024 – 15:12

A modern-style townhome community is edging toward groundbreaking in a pocket of Southwest Atlanta that’s seen a residential growth spurt in recent years.

Flicker Development owner Dan Flicker tells Urbanize Atlanta the 14-unit project is set to rise on two connected properties where Metropolitan Parkway meets Gillette Avenue, replacing a vacant “huge eyesore” that’s dogged Adair Park neighbors for years.

The historic Gillette Mansion overlooks the sloped site from the south.

As drawn up by Taylor Design Studio, the townhomes would rise at 801 and 805 Metropolitan Parkway, about two miles south of Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Flicker says the development process will likely start early next year on two rows of seven townhomes, with a central drive and wide sidewalk along Metropolitan Parkway.

Courtesy of Flicker Development; designs, Taylor Design Studio

The Metropolitan Parkway corner property in question, at left, last month. Google Maps

Plans call for “ultra-efficient” floorplans across three stories with one-car garages and private rooftop decks, many of them with downtown skyline views, per Flicker. The room count would be three bedrooms and three bathrooms across roughly 1,270 square feet, a number that includes the garages.

It’s too early to predict pricing, but Flicker says all of the townhomes will be for sale and not rentals.

“Pricing these out for sale one to two years from now, which is our likely timeline, seems dubious, but I can say these will all be market-rate,” Flicker said.

The site is across the street from the 100-townhome rental community by Empire Communities called Empire Metro (since renamed Kennett 776) in the Pittsburgh neighborhood. A Fit Efx Training Center workout facility is located just north of the site, and the Adair Court senior housing complex opened several years ago just west.

Two blocks north, in the same neighborhood, is sprawling former warehouse complex Met Atlanta. That hub for makers and artists was bought for $70 million in September by a Charlotte-based subsidiary of healthcare company Atrium Health for rumored development of a new intown hospital.

Proposed facades along Metropolitan Parkway. Courtesy of Flicker Development; designs, Taylor Design Studio

The 801 and 805 Metropolitan Parkway properties in relation to downtown and Southwest Atlanta landmarks. Google Maps

Flicker says the site plan in Adair Park could grow to include more of the block, as the longtime owner of three “vacant-ish” parcels to the immediate north is now entertaining offers. Construction timelines are contingent, to a degree, on financing and whether those properties can be added to the scope, according to Flicker.

Flicker’s company is also behind plans for a unique multifamily building about a mile farther south on Metropolitan Parkway, within walking distance of the Beltline’s Southside Trail corridor. That project has been met with neighbor concerns over parking and remains in design phases for now.

Head up to the gallery for a detailed look at Flicker Development’s current plans in Adair Park.

Courtesy of Flicker Development; designs, Taylor Design Studio