At the edge of Central Park in Old Fourth Ward, a corner parcel currently holding one house is in line for a considerably denser future.
Filings made this week with Atlanta's Department of City Planning propose a six-story building with 24 apartments at 389 Linden Ave., at the southeastern corner of Linden Avenue and Hunt Street. The site is about a block south of North Avenue and just west of Boulevard, with views over Central Park toward both the downtown and Midtown skylines.
A project that went quiet, then came back
This is not the proposal's first appearance. It came before Old Fourth Ward's Neighborhood Planning Unit-M in the fall of 2021 and then went dormant for more than three years. The parcel has already been rezoned for multifamily development, which removes the largest procedural obstacle a project of this size would normally face.
The building would top out at 70 feet with usable rooftop space and 18 vehicle parking spaces, on ground where the same developer once proposed townhomes.
What is there now
The existing structure is a three-bedroom brick home dating to roughly 1920, according to Fulton County property records. Trading one 105-year-old house for 24 apartments on a park-facing corner is the kind of density swap that Old Fourth Ward has been arguing about, parcel by parcel, for the better part of a decade.
Not the only thing on the block
Just east of the same intersection, on the opposite side of Linden Avenue, intown developer PacificPoint Realty has a 31-unit townhome project in the pipeline. Between the two, a short stretch of a residential street a block off North Avenue is set to absorb more than 50 new homes.
Renderings and some details originally published with the filing were later withdrawn at the request of an official once associated with the project, who said the materials were outdated. The unit count, height and location come from the city filing itself.
Original reporting by Josh Green for Urbanize Atlanta, published February 2025.