The trend of building townhomes on vacated or wooded properties in Edgewood and Kirkwood is set to continue along a main thoroughfare for both neighborhoods.
According to City of Atlanta Department of City Planning records, a five-unit townhome project is moving forward at the southeast corner of Hosea L. Williams Drive and Montgomery Street.
The wooded site is less than a block from Kirkwood’s Coan Park, a popular eastside greenspace for recreation, sports, and events along PATH’s Eastside Trolley Trail.
Details remain scarce, but according to initial filings with the city, plans call for five attached townhomes at the site that would merge five lots into one, near the point where Kirkwood meets Edgewood.
The corner site in question near Coan Park and Kirkwood's westernmost flank. Google Maps
Signage posted at the site in August indicates a stream buffer encroachment is involved, regarding a creek that cuts through a portion of the site before heading south toward Memorial Drive.
The project would be a relative anomaly for Hosea Williams Drive in the area, an important east-west thoroughfare that’s mostly lined with single-family homes.
In recent years, however, townhomes have cropped up in several projects across more northern blocks of both Kirkwood and Edgewood—especially near Pullman Yards—and also in numerous places along the Memorial Drive corridor.
The five parcels along Hosea Williams Drive in March last year. Google Maps
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