It’s been a big year for new Beltline trails and fresh transit options on Atlanta’s southside, and a new Peoplestown project is aiming to capitalize on both. 

Infill project The Row 900 is officially under construction on its first phase in Peoplestown, located directly on MARTA’s new Rapid A-Line, according to project designers and builders WilliamMarkDesigns. 

The initial phase of the 16-home subdivision will see four homes rise around the 900 block of Hank Aaron Drive (thus the project name) between downtown Atlanta and the Beltline’s Southside Trail corridor. According to Natasha Rae, WilliamMarkDesigns marketing director, one home option at The Row 900 has gone under contract so far, before it’s broken ground. 

“We’re a tiny team going up against the D.R. Hortons and Ashton Woods of the world in intown Atlanta, and we’re doing it by staying really hands-on,” Rae wrote via email. “Our founders are involved in literally every phase, from design to the final walkthrough.”

The project is underway between two stops (“Ormond Street” and “Peoplestown”) on the initial phase of MARTA’s first new transit line in more than two decades—and metro Atlanta’s first Bus Rapid Transit route overall. The five-mile BRT transit loop began operations in April. 

The site is about four blocks directly north of Peoplestown’s new Terminal South district and the Beltline’s completed Southside Trail, which opened this month in advance of 2026 FIFA World Cup. 

The Row 900 site on Hank Aaron Drive (top, in red) in relation to the Beltline's new Southside Trail (1.), Terminal South (2.), The Beacon (3.), and other southside landmarks.Google Maps/UA

To the north, Georgia State University’s Center Parc Stadium and Summerhill’s food-and-beverage row Georgia Avenue are roughly a half-dozen blocks away. 

The Row 900 has been billed as “a new standard for modern living” and a departure from the product builder WilliamMarkDesigns typically delivers in other intown neighborhoods, with prices north of $1 million. 

The project will see 16 new homes total in three different floorplans, with the option to add an Accessory Dwelling Unit or guesthouse with some homes, as project broker Bobbie Spiller of Keller Knapp Realty told Urbanize Atlanta earlier this year. 

Current prices start at $615,000, which buys a duplex unit with three bedrooms and two and ½ bathrooms in 1,443 square feet, with attached carport parking.  

Prices climb to $800,000 (also one half of a duplex), with the largest clocking in at four bedrooms and three and ½ bathrooms in 2,002 square feet, with a carport. 

Sample facades planned for The Row 900 in Peoplestown, about two miles south of downtown Atlanta. Courtesy of WilliamMarkDesigns; architecture by Goodman Design Co.

Image depicting how an ADU arrangement could work at The Row 900 project. Courtesy of WilliamMarkDesigns; architecture by Goodman Design Co.

Marketing materials have described The Row 900 as “attainable luxury [for] the heart of Peoplestown,” and the location as “one of Atlanta’s fastest-evolving intown neighborhoods” overall. 

A 5-acre, flood-solving city park that should become a neighborhood perk is taking shape a few blocks to the east of the new home site.

MARTA’s schedule calls for opening all 14 BRT stations on the Beltline-to-downtown A-Line this fall. Find an overview of the transit line’s phase one below, and more context and visuals for The Row 900 project in the gallery above.

A map of current stations and functionality for MARTA's phase-one Rapid A-Line BRT transit option. MARTA

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