Images: Mixed-income project delivers in shadow of downtown ATL

Following two years of construction, a mixed-income housing complex is set to officially debut this week within whistling distance of downtown Atlanta, a MARTA transit station, and a new affordable healthcare facility.

McAuley Station Phase I includes 170 apartments on Gartrell Street in Sweet Auburn, adjacent to the expanded Mercy Care campus and just north of Decatur Street and MARTA’s King Memorial station.

The $50-million development is one component of the McAuley Park masterplan, a mixed-use community spread across several blocks near the neighborhood’s junction with Old Fourth Ward. Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and other city, state, and private-sector officials are scheduled to lead a ribbon-cutting at the new building Wednesday morning.

Bocce and views on McAuley Station Phase 1's roof deck. Pennrose

McAuley Station's 375 Gartrell St. location near MARTA's King Memorial transit hub. Google Maps

The project, a partnership between Mercy Care and Philadelphia-based developer Pennrose, includes rentals ranging from studios to two-bedroom options that qualify as either affordable, workforce, or supportive housing.

All rentals are reserved for tenants earning at most 30 to 80 percent of the area median income, according to project officials.

Listed rents for McAuley Park range from $1,106 to $1,450 monthly for one-bedroom apartments, and between $1,332 and $1,716 monthly for two-bedroom units with up to 920 square feet.

No studios are listed as being available. Those floorplans start at 404 square feet.

Thirty of the studio apartments are being reserved as permanent supportive housing, as operated through Fulton County’s Behavioral Health Department in partnership with Partners for HOME. And 10 apartments of the 170 will function as transitional or respite units for Mercy Care patients, per officials.

Perks of the building include a resident lounge and business center, a fitness center, and rooftop deck with sweeping views from downtown to Midtown, plus bocce and a grilling station.

Pennrose

Next door, Mercy Care finished a 36,000-square-foot expansion of its clinic space and resource center for partner agencies in 2022, nearly doubling the size of the nonprofit’s former campus. That project allows Mercy Care to serve 3,000 more patients per year—many of them uninsured—with primary, dental, vision, and psychiatric care.

Across its local network, Mercy Care saw more patients in the 12 months ending in June this year than in any other year in its nearly 40-year history. Those roughly 79,000 appointments for more than 18,800 people were up 25 percent and 12 percent from the prior year, respectively, per the nonprofit.

All residents of McAuley Station will have access to Mercy Care’s medical services next door, which project officials describe as reliable and affordable.

The second phase of McAuley Station, a 96-unit senior housing complex, is in the works just north of the new apartments on a formerly vacant lot.

Find more project context and imagery in the gallery above.

A 404-square-foot studio is the smallest McAuley Station option listed today. Pennrose