Images: America's largest builder starts delivering homes near Beltline

Following several years of delays, a boutique-sized, southside infill project has started delivering new housing a few blocks from the Atlanta Beltline corridor 

Arlington, Texas-based D.R Horton, considered America’s largest homebuilder, stepped in last year to take the reins on building townhomes on a previously wooded site along Boulevard in the Benteen Park neighborhood. 

Those townhomes have recently started delivering as Benteen Reserve, a traditional-style project with two floorplan options. Marketing materials flaunt quick access to walking trails, interstates, and a “vibrant local scene,” a reference to The Beacon food, shopping, and entertainment district and historic Summerhill.  

According to Courtney Egerton, a marketing specialist with D.R Horton Atlanta Central, the first floorplan option to deliver, the Knollwood, has a decorated model home finished onsite. The second, smaller option, the Norris floorplan, is under construction now. 

Both offer three bedrooms and three and ½ bathrooms in three stories. 

Following a recent price slice of $45,000, the least expensive Norris plan starts at $419,900. That buys a single-car garage at the base level and about 1,700 square feet.

The larger Knollwood options start from $483,990 for roughly 1,980 square feet above two-car garages. 

Benteen Park is a small neighborhood bordering Boulevard Heights and Chosewood Park that includes a namesake greenspace.

Situated south of Grant Park and Zoo Atlanta, the combined sites in question—1304 and 1316 Boulevard—span 2.3 acres immediately north of southside hangout Red’s Beer Garden. A long-abandoned carwash and heavily wooded property were cleared in 2023 to make way for the housing.

Across the street is the immense construction zone that is Empire Communities’ 34-acre Zephyr project.

The site’s previous owner, Epic Development, sold the cleared acreage last year to D.R. Horton. Epic officials previously told Urbanize that 39 total units had been approved for the corner—and that the project had to be redesigned twice before it could gain Special Administrative Permit approval at the city level in 2022. 

Surrounding blocks, especially to the west and south, have seen a frenzy of residential construction in recent years as the promise of the freshly paved Beltline corridor has moved closer to reality. 

Beyond Empire’s Zephyr community, nearby Chosewood Park projects include the 128-townhome Maguire at Skylar, a multifamily complex called The Upton, and in Boulevard Heights, a TPA residential venture that's replacing a landfill across more than 8 acres, among several other ventures.

Benteen Reserve townhomes are about 1/3 of a mile south of the Beltline’s Southside Trail corridor, which is now fully under construction (albeit delayed) as a multi-use pathway with plans of being completed in mid-2026. (Beltline officials recently asserted in emails to Urbanize Atlanta that opening the full Southside Trail prior to FIFA World Cup festivities in Atlanta is still the unequivocal goal.)

The trail portion between Boulevard and Glenwood Park has been delayed by unforeseen construction complications but is still expected to open sooner, likely in early 2026, per Beltline officials. 

Head up to the gallery for more Benteen Reserve context and photos. 

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