Church-replacing Kirkwood corner project officially sells out

Roughly a year after finishing construction, a relatively dense example of single-family housing has officially sold out along one of Atlanta’s hottest corridors for investment over the past decade. 

The final unsold residence at modern-style infill project JD Kirkwood closed Friday where Memorial Drive meets East Lake Terrace, across the street from Drew Charter School, according to listing agent Sara Lee Parker of Keller Williams Intown Atlanta. 

Closings ultimately ranged from $889,000 to $929,000, according to Parker. (Initially, asking prices had been as high as $995,000.) 

Between early proposals and closeout, the JD Kirkwood project had been about four years in the making. It marked the latest infill bet of many along the eastside’s Memorial Drive. 

The Bespoke Developments project claimed a corner lot where a small church property—the former home of Zion Pentecostal Evangelistic Church of God in Christ—was demolished in 2022. It was designed by Atlanta-based Xmetrical, an architecture firm with modern homes and commercial ventures dotted across the city.

All JD Kirkwood units stand three stories tall. The smaller offerings have three bedrooms and three and ½ bathrooms in around 2,500 square feet, with another 664 to 719 square feet of patios and terraces, per the sales team. 

The larger units brought four bedrooms and four and ½ bathroom in up to 2,761 square feet. Each house counts a rooftop deck, patios off the living rooms, two-car garages, and touches like clerestory windows. 

On blocks immediately south of the JD Kirkwood project are Drew Charter School facilities and the East Lake YMCA. Proximity to parks, downtown Kirkwood, Oakhurst, the Hosea + 2nd project, East Lake Publix, and Lidl were also cited as perks of the location.

Directly across the street to the west, another former church site where more single-family housing has been proposed in recent years remains a vacant lot. Both churches had sat vacant on their respective corners for years. 

Initially pitched by JDW Development, the JD Kirkwood project first came before the Kirkwood Neighbors Organization in summer 2021, and as of early 2022 appeared to be green-lighted for full construction. But the site went quiet for more than a year before the new development team stepped in.

As with Toll Brothers’ Oxley Edgewood project, the Empire Paintbox townhomes and 103 new townhomes called Eastwood elsewhere in Kirkwood, and the 1200 Ponce venture that transformed Druid Hills United Methodist Church, among others, JD Kirkwood marked a case of developers moving in to claim land from an intown congregation willing to sell and move on.

Swing up to the gallery for a closer look at how the five infill residences came together.   

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