Old Fourth Ward's push toward denser housing in the blocks west of Boulevard is continuing next to one of the neighborhood's busiest greenspaces. Site development work is nearly complete for a 31-townhome infill project at 404 Linden Ave., with vertical construction on pace to start by the end of 2024, project officials told Urbanize Atlanta.
The site sits a block south of North Avenue and immediately west of Central Park, the city greenspace and rec sports hub that has hosted Shaky Knees Music Festival for years. Boulevard is about two blocks east.
The developer is PacificPoint Realty, an Atlanta firm whose recent work includes the Freedom Townhomes in Poncey-Highland and 1204 on the Park overlooking Piedmont Park, where townhomes sold for as much as $2.1 million. The still-unnamed Linden project is designed by TaC Studios, an Atlanta architecture firm with a portfolio of modern houses and townhome ventures across the eastside, several in partnership with PacificPoint.
All 31 homes will carry three bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms across roughly 2,000 square feet on three stories. Allen Snow, vice president of developer marketing and sales at Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby's International Realty, expects the townhomes to reach the market in the first quarter of 2025 at prices ranging from roughly the high $700,000s to the low $800,000s. “Many of the homes will have views of the downtown and Midtown skylines,” Snow said by email.
Snow describes this pocket as “Fourth Ward West” and points to nearby projects as selling points: the mixed-use redevelopment vision for the former Atlanta Medical Center, a block-sized proposal in the 200 block of Ponce de Leon Avenue just east of Mary Mac's Tea Room, and the revitalization of Cosby Spear Towers.
That list is a fair map of what is genuinely in motion in this part of Old Fourth Ward, and also a reminder of the scale gap. Thirty-one townhomes at $800,000 will not move the neighborhood's affordability math. What they will do is fill a long-vacant parcel beside a well-used park with buildings and residents, on a block that has had neither.
Original reporting by Josh Green for Urbanize Atlanta, published October 2024.
