Nearly a year after a ceremonial groundbreaking attended by Atlanta’s mayor and other dignitaries, a southside project is rounding into shape that aims to inject attainable housing and more life into a corridor between downtown and the airport. 

Spanning the better part of a city block, the mixed-use Metropolitan Place Apartments development has topped out across what used to be a vacant and overgrown lot at 2333 Metropolitan Parkway. 

The 6-acre site is just south of Langford Parkway and west of the downtown Connector in the Perkerson neighborhood.

Metropolitan Place is set to include 176 apartments—with none of them going for market-rate—and a retail component as a means of helping boost a corridor, like other recent projects nearby, that’s long grappled with disinvestment and blight, development officials said early this year. 

Construction progress on the south facade of Metropolitan Place as of Dec. 21. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

The vacant plot in January 2023, with the new APD precinct shown at left. Google Maps

The project is a joint venture by Soho Housing Partners and Smyrna-based The Paces Foundation. The latter is a local nonprofit striving to develop more than 3,000 affordable housing units.

According to the development team, all units will be reserved for tenants earning between 60 and 80 percent of the Area Median Income. 

The breakdown: 50 one-bedroom units (roughly 700 square feet), 86 two-bedroom options (1,000 square feet), and 40 three-bedroom apartments (1,300 square feet). 

Amenities are listed as an onsite fitness center, clubhouse, picnic area, and security cameras. Renderings also show a playground included in designs for the building’s courtyard area.   

At the ground level, roughly 1,000 square feet of commercial retail space will also be built, according to project plans.

Planned Metropolitan Parkway facade at the 176-unit Metropolitan Place development. The Paces Foundation, via J.M. Wilkerson Construction

How Metropolitan Place's north facade is taking shape on a previously vacant lot at 2333 Metropolitan Parkway. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Metropolitan Place aims to continue investments in the north-south corridor that include a new Atlanta Police Department Zone 3 precinct next door and Goodwill’s Metropolitan Parkway Career Center a few blocks north, according to an Invest Atlanta project summary. 

Other housing developments in the area have helped contribute to an ongoing revitalization, per Invest Atlanta officials.

About half of Metropolitan Place’s $77.1 million cost is being paid for with a tax-exempt loan from Atlanta’s Urban Residential Finance Authority, alongside federal and state tax credit equities aimed at helping spur development, per project leaders. Invest Atlanta officials agreed in spring 2024 to provide $2.9 million via Housing Opportunity Bonds.

Project officials have said Metropolitan Place Apartments will open in early 2027. Find more context and images in the gallery above. 

Communal areas planned for the Metropolitan Place courtyard. The Paces Foundation, via J.M. Wilkerson Construction

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