More walkable retail options are in store for an Edgewood corridor that’s seen hundreds of transit-connected residences take shape, rendering it unrecognizable from a decade ago. 

Foxtail Coffee opened Friday in a ground-level space at Hanover Edgewood, a 422-unit apartment complex at the corner of La France and Mayson Avenue in the neighborhood’s northernmost blocks, according to leasing officials with Oakhurst Realty Partners. The Foxtail outpost joins a half dozen others that have opened around Atlanta in recent years, from Decatur to Midtown and Dunwoody. 

The next retail option at Hanover Edgewood—set for a grand opening Saturday—will be PVO Pet Collective, an online mother-daughter pet boutique that picked Edgewood for its first brick-and-mortar location. 

Expect homemade dog treats, a retail shop, spa services, space for classes and mixers, and a bookable pet photo studio. 

That signing leaves three more open retail spaces in the building, including two on either side of the coffee shop measuring 2,268 and 1,734 square feet. 

“We’re getting close with an Italian concept for the large corner patio space,” Todd Semrau, Oakhurst Realty Partners’ senior vice president, tells Urbanize Atlanta. “Can’t name it yet.”

Courtesy of Oakhurst Realty Partners

The Hanover Edgewood corner in question along La France Street, as seen in November. Google Maps

Hanover Edgewood, a joint venture between Hanover Company and GID Development Group, started opening in 2024 one block east of the Edgewood-Candler Park MARTA station. It marks the densest section of a massive Edgewood development expected to eventually bring nearly 700 new housing units to the area, though progress elsewhere nearby has stalled.

Next to the apartments, national homebuilder Toll Brothers has completed infrastructure work for a mix of residential uses that would claim land on both sides of La France Street. Work at that site has gone idle for more than a year, and Toll Brothers officials have been tightlipped about plans for the site. 

Elsewhere intown, Toll Brothers started work on a smaller Reynoldstown site near the Atlanta Beltline before pausing and selling to another developer.

Toll Brothers leadership told Urbanize Atlanta in 2023 plans in Edgewood call for 240 condos and townhomes—a reduction of 20 units from earlier plans. According to project filings, the scope of work would also include a protected bike lane on La France Street, a dog park, and at least two small, public-accessible greenspaces. 

All told, plans call for 24 separate buildings to rise across the former industrial acreage, eventually. 

Plans for La France Street retail at the corner of Hanover Edgewood nearest the MARTA station. Hanover Company

The factory site along La France Street in 2019, prior to its shutdown. Google Maps

The Hanover venture joins 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.

Sounds like all those new residents will have more to walk to soon. 

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