Images: Transit-oriented Edgewood build is rounding into shape

Hundreds of additional transit-connected living options are rounding into shape along an Edgewood corridor that’s unrecognizable from a few years ago.

The 422-unit multifamily stack on La France Street, Hanover Edgewood, is a joint venture between Hanover Company and GID Development Group. It broke ground in summer 2022 and topped out last fall, standing one block east of the Edgewood-Candler Park MARTA station. It’s the densest section of a massive Edgewood development expected to eventually bring nearly 700 new housing units to the area.

Recent construction shows how a corner section for retail will function at the building's base, adding to commercial options that have popped up across the area’s former parking lots.

At about 722 square feet with a true bedroom, the complex’s smallest apartments listed to date are relatively large by Atlanta’s recent new-construction standards. (Studio units will eventually be offered, per marketing materials.)

On the larger end, the biggest units listed to date (three bedrooms, two bathrooms) clock in just shy of 1,600 square feet.

According to new renderings, perks will include a multi-level “social courtyard” with outdoor games galore and a swank “screening lounge” inside, along with the prerequisite pet spa and fancy fitness center.

We’ve submitted inquiries to Hanover officials for updates on the project’s ETA, retail, and other details, and this story will be updated with any additional details that come. Marketing materials state that pricing has yet to be finalized. 

The apartments are part of a much larger project with two-dozen buildings in the pipeline that’s cleared 13.3 acres on Edgewood’s northern fringes. For six decades, that land had housed an Edwards Fine Foods factory—unit the sweet-smelling Schwan’s Company-owned facility was demolished in 2022.

Next to the apartments, National homebuilder Toll Brothers has completed the majority of infrastructure work for a mix of residential uses that will consume the majority of the broader site on both sides of La France Street. Toll Brothers officials told Urbanize Atlanta last year plans now call for 240 condos and townhomes at the Edgewood project—a reduction of 20 units from earlier plans.

According to project filings, the scope of work will also include a protected bike lane on La France Street, a dog park, and at least two small, public-accessible greenspaces. About 900 parking spaces will be spread around the property.

All told, plans call for 24 separate buildings to rise across the former industrial acreage, but vertical construction has yet to begin.

The Hanover venture will join more than 400 apartments built on former MARTA parking lots next door, continuing the densification of Edgewood’s northern blocks near transit options and other attractions such as the Edgewood Retail District and Pullman Yards. It also continues an intown push—from Brookhaven to East Point and many points between—to locate denser housing types within walking distance of MARTA stations. 

The former factory site is located immediately east of Columbia Ventures’ 208-unit Quill Apartments, the final component of MARTA’s 6.3-acre redevelopment of parking lots around the transit station, collectively called Edgewood Park. That transit-oriented development also produced 224 apartments at the Spoke complex, offices, and food-and-beverage concepts Bona Fide Deluxe and Vin ATL, with a public park in the middle.

In the gallery above, find a bevy of Hanover Edgewood construction update pics and fresh renderings.

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