Two empty lots on the Westside, close enough to Mercedes-Benz Stadium that you can walk it in a few minutes, have come to market with asking prices that will surprise anyone who has priced land closer to the core. The parcels at 598 and 602 Rhodes St. NW in Vine City are listed at $155,000 each through Coldwell Banker Realty.
Each lot runs roughly one-tenth of an acre. Rhodes Street slopes gently and is lined with tidy two-story houses, and the listings describe the building sites themselves as level. Approved construction plans, topographic surveys and plat maps convey with the sales, which removes a chunk of the entitlement work a buyer would otherwise have to fund up front. One of the listings includes a four-level home design for the site.
The location is what makes the number notable. The lots sit a little more than a block west of the stadium and just west of MARTA's Vine City station, putting a rail platform and a World Cup host venue inside a short walk. Just south, a planned mixed-use hub near Atlanta University Center properties could bring a hotel, hundreds of residences and neighborhood retail. Rodney Cook Sr. Park, State Farm Arena, Centennial Olympic Park, the AUC campuses and the Westside Beltline Connector trail are all within walking or short biking distance. Less appealing to a prospective buyer is Herndon Stadium around the corner, historic and still sitting empty.
Coldwell Banker pitches the sites for a build-to-own house or short-term rentals, citing new-construction homes in this part of Atlanta that are fetching well over $550,000. That spread between a $155,000 dirt price and a mid-six-figure finished product is the entire argument, and it is the same math that has been reshaping block after block west of Northside Drive since the stadium opened.
The listings put the Walk Score at 77, which registers as very walkable, with a Transit Score of 69 and a Bike Score of 53. Those are strong marks by Atlanta standards and reflect what downtown-adjacent Vine City actually offers on foot rather than what a car-oriented map suggests. For a downtown resident watching land values, the pair of parcels is a useful marker of where the Westside sits right now.
Original reporting: Urbanize Atlanta (2026-07-29)
