A mix of townhomes and for-sale condos is starting to move forward on a Reynoldstown corner that was cleared of its former buildings nearly five years ago. 

Developers confirm to Urbanize Atlanta that groundwork where Chester Avenue meets Fulton Terrace is the start of townhome construction about a block north of Memorial Drive near the Atlanta Beltline. 

Atlanta-based Embry Development Company purchased the 2-acre site from national developer Toll Brothers at 195 Chester Ave. two years ago, with plans to take over the permitted development of 85 residential units about a block west of the Beltline’s ever-popular Eastside Trail.

According to Embry Development managing partner Mike Embry, the site’s 33 townhomes are under construction now and are being developed by national homebuilder Lennar. 

The beginning of construction on Sunday where Chester Avenue (left) meets Fulton Terrace in Reynoldstown.Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

The 2.09-acre site, as seen five years ago, prior to demolition. The Beltline's Eastside Trail is pictured at bottom left.Google Maps

Lennar’s schedule calls for starting to bring the for-sale townhomes to market late in the third quarter or early fourth quarter of this year. According to site plans filed with the City of Atlanta, the townhomes will stand in three buildings along Fulton Terrace.  

The five-story condo component planned for the western edge of the site, meanwhile, is on standby. 

“The condo building pad is ready to build on, but the building permit was never pulled to start construction,” Embry wrote via email this week. “We will be finalizing the architecturals then submitting for a permit in the next few months.”

In metro Atlanta, Lennar mostly builds single-family housing in the suburbs, but the company does count a recent ITP townhome project called Towns at Creekside in Doraville. Lennar has not yet publicly listed information for the Reynoldstown venture, such as townhome sizes and price ranges. 

Issachar Capital is also partnering with Embry Development on the project. 

Embry Development’s roots in Atlanta date back to post-World War II years, and the planned neighborhood Embry Hills near Spaghetti Junction was among their first projects in town. 

The westernmost portion of the Reynoldstown site (background), where for-sale condos are planned. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

One planned facade of the 195 Chester Avenue project's eventual condo building.Lessard Design/Toll Brothers, via NPU-N

The bulk of Embry Development’s more recent residential projects have been in Atlanta suburbs, such as Lawrenceville and Suwanee, and neighboring states. Elsewhere, the company scooped up the Skyhaven Quarry project site near East Atlanta Village last year and is planning a townhome venture in the Benteen neighborhood near Atlanta’s federal penitentiary, among other projects.  

Formerly home to an AT&T work-center warehouse and parking lots, the Reynoldstown property has been rezoned from an industrial land use designation to one that supports high-density residential development. Building permits for land development were issued back in August 2021, per city records.

Toll Brothers’ most recent marketing materials for Camber Crossing—as the project was called—listed condos as starting in the high $400,000s.

Those plans consisted of 52 condos, all with two bedrooms, according to site plans. Sizes were expected to range between 1,136 and 1,556 square feet in either one or two-story floorplans. 

Find more context and visuals in the gallery above. 

Looking north, the layout of townhomes (top) and condos on the L-shaped, formerly industrial site, according to plans filed in 2020. City of Atlanta Office of Zoning and Development

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