Construction is anticipated to kick off this summer on a mixed-use project that would change the landscape of a large plot on Atlanta’s Westside.
Dubbed Echo Street West, the 18-acre English Avenue development is slated to deliver some 285,000 square feet of office space, 50,000 square feet of commercial space, and nearly 300 apartments in its first phase alone.
Two years ago, developer Brock Built homes had plans for the property, which sits near the corner of Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway and Northside Drive.
Brock Built’s “Echo Street Communities” was designed to produce a different mix: 135,000 square feet of retail and commercial space, 302,000 square feet of office space, a 120-room hotel, 40 townhouses, and nearly 700 multifamily residences.
However, as SaportaReport relays, Dallas-based Lincoln Property Company purchased the property in December, promising “to provide an innovative contribution to the transformational real estate development taking place on Atlanta’s Westside,” as Lincoln’s executive vice president Tony Bartlett put it in a press release.
The Brock Built plans had caught the ire of some Westside neighbors, who’d complained the project would be too dense and expensive to gel with the Westside Land Use Framework Plan.
“We are committed to being thoughtful stewards of the property and the neighborhood as it is revitalized, to support the efforts of catalytic connectivity that are already underway in this area,” Bartlett added, per the release.
The revised Echo Street West development would also be bisected by the Beltline’s Westside Connector Trail, which is projected to open around the same time construction of the mixed-use community launches.
Have a look at that trail’s corridor in this photo essay, as initial work on the Beltline-PATH partnership began last summer.
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