Images: Modern villas break ground at lip of enthusiast racetrack

Now here’s a residential project that’s unconcerned with traffic noise. 

Atlanta Motorsports Park announced this week construction has started on a housing venture called “Motor Club Circuit Villas” that aims to set “a new standard for trackside real estate in the Southeast,” while doubling as vacation rentals at a gateway to the North Georgia Mountains. 

The Dawsonville racetrack, opened an hour north of Atlanta in 2013, has become a unique mishmash of enthusiast motorsports, resort-style amenities, and residential development in recent years; an earlier project of 45 trackside condos that asked buyers to swap “oceanfront for asphalt” quickly sold out, priced as shell units from $225,000 for 640 square feet and up. 

Now, the villas are bringing larger for-sale dwellings to a main turn at what’s billed as “one of North America’s most celebrated driving destinations.” The two-mile track—designed by renowned Formula One racecourse architect Hermann Tilke—is carved into rolling hills outside downtown Dawsonville, tucked a few miles off Ga. Highway 400.

Exactly how many AMP villas will rise isn’t specified in promotional materials, but we count about two dozen in renderings. Prices start at $650,000. 

That buys a three-story floorplan with a two-car garage at the base (lifts can be added to fit four racing machines), fronted by all-glass garage doors. Above that are two levels with two bedrooms and one and ½ bathrooms, a kitchen with Bosch appliances, a laundry, and storage. 

The top floor at each villa will have two cantilevered balconies with sliding glass doors that open the space to two racetracks (the main circuit and a karting track) and North Georgia Mountain views. 

According to AMP reps, villas interiors can be customized to owner tastes, from the wine storage and wallpaper to fingerprint-resistant cabinetry. 

Added draws of the location are nearby hiking options and wineries, along with a Dawson County economy AMP officials describe as booming with new development. Leading industry publication Road & Track magazine named AMP one of North America’s top 10 tracks. 

Zoom up to the gallery for a closer look at this unique, OTP residential venture that recently broke ground. 

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