Following delays, a unique infill project planned for a former gas station site near the Atlanta Beltline is on the verge of moving forward, sources tell Urbanize Atlanta. 

Brownsville Pointe calls for three buildings with a mix of uses on an arrow-shaped parcel where McDonough Boulevard meets Jonesboro Road. The .53-acre site is situated about three miles south of downtown and a few blocks from the Beltline’s under-construction Southside Trail corridor.

The project by Focused Community Strategies, a local developer and real estate company, secured construction permits Thursday and is close to breaking ground, according to engineers and architects involved with design. 

Earlier timelines called for Brownsville Pointe to be open for tenants by early 2026. We’ve reached out to FCS reps and a company official for a revised construction timeline; this article will be updated with additional information that comes. 

Alongside two residential buildings, Brownsville Pointe will include a brick-clad, two-story restaurant space at a three-way intersection that counts Carver Neighborhood Market, Community Grounds Coffee Shop, and other businesses as tenants today. 

The former gas station site in question in February 2024. Google Maps

The brick-clad, triangular piece of Brownsville Pointe includes 2,800 square feet of retail at the base. Kronberg Urbanists + Architects

FCS in late 2024 hired Atlanta real estate advisory firm terra alma to lease the 2,800-square-foot space, citing the company’s success in leasing the Halidom Eatery food hall on Moreland Avenue. Selling points include ceilings that will rise 12 and 11 feet, officials have said.

Next door, Brownsville Pointe’s residential plans call for two buildings standing three stories with 18 apartments total—12 of them reserved as affordable housing at 60 percent of the area median income or below.

The property was contaminated by its former use as a gas station and from nearby dry-cleaning facilities, which left material containing asbestos, according to Invest Atlanta. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2024 awarded the project a $550,000 brownfield cleanup grant to remediate contamination prior to development, with vapor barriers installed. 

Perks of the location, according to FCS officials, include access to the Beltline’s Southside Trail, Summerhill’s Publix, the new Terminal South project, and the forthcoming, five-mile MARTA Rapid Summerhill BRT line, which is projected to open this year. 

The latter two projects, according to FCS, are just 1/10th of a mile from Brownsville Pointe.

The McDonough Boulevard property, which FCS purchased in 2018, most recently functioned as a gas station. That closed years ago, and the buried fuel tanks have been removed. 

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The Brownsville Pointe location in relation to South Downtown and the Beltline's Southside Trail corridor. Google Maps

In 2019, FCS floated plans for converting a convenience store building left standing on site into a sit-down restaurant, but that didn’t come to fruition.

FCS’s roots in South Atlanta are deep, having built more than 200 affordable homes in the community over the past 25 years, while also creating the coffee shop and market across the street from Brownsville Pointe’s site. 

The developer also manages a rental portfolio of more than 30 single-family homes in the area, company officials have said.   

Brownsville Pointe’s designers, Kronberg Urbanists + Architects, are behind another project in English Avenue with a similar scope and blend of uses that officially debuted last month, as spearheaded by nonprofit Westside Future Fund.

In the gallery above, find a closer look at plans for this unique South Atlanta corner.  

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