At doorstep of Atlanta’s airport, 7-building project officially a go

Josh Green

Mon, 01/27/2025 – 13:03

Just a few blocks from parked jets at the world’s busiest airport, a mixed-use project developers hope will continue downtown Hapeville’s revitalization is officially underway.

Charlotte-based developer Terwilliger Pappas Multifamily Partners has broken ground on a sizable apartment community with retail called Solis Hapeville, according to construction company Fortune-Johnson, the project’s general contractor.

Solis Hapeville’s seven residential buildings will rise on an assemblage of parcels along Porsche Avenue, between Hapeville’s artsy commercial core, Porsche’s expanded North American Headquarters, and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

The finalized apartment count will be 305 market-rate units spread across the 9.1-acre site, according to Fortune-Johnson.

As shown in 2022, the Solis Hapeville site’s proximity to Porsche’s expanded campus, longer Porsche Experience Center Atlanta track, and the airport. Google Maps

Plans for the Solis Hapeville project’s Porsche Avenue facade.Terwilliger Pappas; designs, Dynamik Design

The seven wood-framed, garden-style buildings at 3558 Elm St. will each stand three or four stories, per plans submitted to Hapeville city officials last year.

The main structure at Solis Hapeville will include about 8,500 square feet of retail spaces fronting Porsche Avenue, plus a clubroom. Another will be crowned with a sky lounge.

The Solis project, as drawn up by Dynamik Design, will also include two ancillary buildings used as standalone parking garages.

Across the property, plans call for 470 parking spaces overall—or 139 more than what Hapeville requires, according to earlier project filings.

Overview of the planned seven-building community. Terwilliger Pappas; designs, Dynamik Design

The Solis Hapeville site plan, with the main building shown at right, and six ancillary residential buildings placed near it. Terwilliger Pappas; designs, Dynamik Design

According to Terwilliger Pappas, the Hapeville project is scheduled to be finished in spring 2026.

Previously, Mill Creek Residential appeared ready to close and break ground on the same property for a 300-unit venture called Modera Hapeville that had earned unanimous approval from the Hapeville Planning Commission. But last year, Mill Creek officials opted to back away, citing constrained capital markets and “unforeseen delays in the acquisition of a key city-owned land parcel” at the site’s corner.

Elsewhere in the metro, Terwilliger Pappas is behind another Solis-branded project in downtown Gainesville, and the residential component of the Parkside on Dresden development (named Solis Dresden Drive) that recently opened in Brookhaven.

The company’s Hapeville endeavor is hardly the only residential project of significant scale in the area.

Other residential developments recently delivered, or in the pipeline, near downtown Hapeville include a 285-unit multifamily project called SCP Hapeville, 68 rental townhomes along main-drag North Central Avenue, and a relatively dense single-family enclave called the Stillwood.

Meanwhile, Texas-based D.R. Horton, the country’s largest homebuilder, is planning to build more than 100 townhomes on another 8.3 acres immediately west of the Solis project.

Also nearby, Porsche completed its $50-million track expansion in 2023; next door to that project, Atlanta Postal Credit Union and Center Parc Credit Union are constructing a new 135,000-square-foot, Class A office headquarters.

Find more context and imagery for Solis Hapeville in the gallery above.

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