As frequent travelers of top-end Interstate 285 and MARTA’s Red Line have probably noticed, infill development on a relatively grand scale is rising on Brookhaven’s northern fringe right now.
That’s where Chicago-based AMLI residential is swapping an office complex with a sizable, mixed-use development several years in the making called AMLI Residential. It’s positioned next to Interstate 285, Perimeter Center Parkway, and Atlanta’s “Pill Hill” medical district, near the heart of Perimeter Center.
As of this week, one apartment building at the 21-acre, 1400 Lake Hearn Drive site has topped out, parking structures and other residential buildings are in various stages of development, and one retail building is standing.
In the pipeline are 630 apartments, all described as luxury, in four buildings standing a half dozen stories or less, according to marketing materials. Beside those structures will be 5 acres of preserved woods and walking trails for tenants and guests.
Planned look of one multifamily corridor. AMLI Brookhaven/Oakhurst Realty Partners/LoopNet
The site shown prior to construction (but after demolition of the office building) next to Interstate 285 and other Perimeter landmarks, including State Farm’s multi-tower complex across the interstate. Google Maps
Elsewhere will be about 25,000 square feet of retail clustered near main entries and parking garages. Todd Semrau of Oakhurst Realty Partners tells Urbanize Atlanta some retail spaces will feature large patios and linear lawn space, with one building sporting a drive-thru. (Renderings suggest Armani might be a good fit on one street corner.)
“The focus is neighborhood commercial, including craft-driven [food and beverage], fast casual to-go, child education uses, pet-related, coworking, breweries, and entertainment,” Semrau wrote via email.
A vacant, five-story Cox Enterprises office building from the 1980s was razed on site a couple of…
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