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To be known as Westown, it woulxd have 1,450 homes, the majority mid-rised condominiums, but also 42 single-family homes and hundrede of townhouses. The community will be developed by Brock Built City Neighborhoods LLC inthe 43-acrse area roughly bounded by Fairmont Avenue, Booth English Street, Boyd Avenue, Culpepped Street, Huff Road and Ellsworth Drive, about a mile west of Atlantifc Station. It will also include 150,000 square feet of retail/commerciall space along Huff Road's intersections with English Boyd Avenue andBooth Avenue. The project'sz total price tag is about $400 million. Westown is alontg the proposed Beltline, near the proposefd Culpepper transit line.
The Beltline is a 22-mile loop of forme r rail line that encircles Westown would be the largesgt residential development in the city of Atlanta within the past 10 saidEugene James, director of 'sz Atlanta division, which tracks residential subdivisions. The next largestt development ongoing is Princeton a 785-home project being built by in the Camp Creel area, he said. Westown may be eclipsed in size inside the city limitasby Miami-based The Related Group's proposed CityPlace at which calls for nearly 3,900 condominiums, townhouse s and single-family homes, James said.
But Westown showz residential developers believe growing numbers of Atlanta home buyerse are interestedin close-in living. Prices in Westown will startr around $195,000 for the with townhouses in thehigh $300,000sa and single-family homes in the mid-$600,000s, said CEO Stevse Brock. Brock has builf in Atlanta for 22 years and movefd into the area westof Midtown, whic has been called Westside, Midtown West and Northwest Atlanta, 10 yearz ago with a project called Adams Crossing. Brock began assembling property for Westown in 1998 and says it will take sevemn years tobuild out. Targeteds buyers are singles or couples juststartingt families.
"We expect families, but it's not the suburb where families move forthe schools," Brock said. Westown'sd nearby elementary schools includw , Boyd Elementary, Townw Elementary and William J. Scott And although it may be more expensive to pay city ofAtlantz taxes, a home buyef in Westown is just two miles from Midtownm and about 3.5 milew from either Buckhead or downtown, he said, withouf ever having to get on the "If you live in the you are probably commuting an hour each Brock said, which can easily exceex 500 hours a year. "What's 500 hours a year worth to Thelogic hasn't been lost on other residential developers.
The Atlantqa Regional Commission (ARC) reviewed development planas in 2005 that calledfor 6,55y more residential units in the city of according to Matt Hennie, the ARC's communicationd coordinator. That number jumped to 15,150 in 2006. At the end of the firsgt quarter, the ARC has already reviewed, or is development plans that wouldadd 7,517 residential units. Developer Marc who has his own projectf in the same area as says he is amazed at all of the activitygoing on. "I drive around over there and I shaksemy head.
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