The newest stretch of Beltline trail south of downtown is about to get one of its first storefronts. A two-story, wedge-shaped masonry building at 1075 Boulevard SE in Chosewood Park — vacant long enough to collect a full coat of graffiti and the nickname the “Do Nothing” building — is being converted into neighborhood commercial space, and Atlanta’s Department of City Planning signed off on a Special Administrative Permit for the work last month.
The building runs about 5,000 square feet and sits a few yards off the recently completed Southside Trail. Owner and developer Under New Management says the structure is suited to two tenants, and that both levels will get patios once the core and shell are rebuilt. Site plans approved by the city show public patio space along the Boulevard frontage, next to an existing stairway serving The Skylark apartments.
Under New Management is led by Saba Loghman, a longtime intown developer who was previously an executive at Empire Communities and still advises the company. The firm is acting as both developer and builder, with Line + Angle Architecture handling design. Loghman told Urbanize Atlanta the building is actively in pre-leasing, with rates undisclosed, and that tenants should be able to move in sometime next year.
The economics are modest by Beltline standards. Fulton County property records show the building changed hands two years ago this month for $202,500 — and before that, in 2018, for just $10,000. That kind of basis is what still makes a small adaptive-reuse retail play pencil out this close to the trail, and it is the sort of project that tends to disappear once land values catch up.
Geography matters here for anyone tracking how downtown’s southern edge is filling in. The property sits near the planned expansion of Boulevard Crossing Park, which the Beltline has designed but has not funded. Boulevard Heights is immediately east; Grant Park is to the north. Under New Management has other work in the same orbit: a mixed-use Kirkwood townhome project with a warehouse component now under construction across from Pullman Yards, and a larger proposal called “Downtown Chosewood” unveiled last fall for vacant acreage off the Southside Trail. Marketing materials note the building once housed a “now-outlawed spectator sport,” a detail the developers have declined to explain.
Original reporting: Urbanize Atlanta (2026-08-07)