Sandy Springs serves as a gateway into many major business districts in the metro. To manage the hundreds of thousands of cars every day, the city is exploring a range of creative solutions.
PATH400, the multi-use trail running along Ga. Highway 400 through Buckhead, is officially halfway done — three years after construction began. Livable Buckhead quietly opened two new segments of the trail, bringing the total to more than 2.5 miles.
Belle Manor has stood on Roswell Road for nearly 100 years. While the neighborhood has transformed from farmland to sprawling suburbia, the stately manse has held its own at the southern reaches of Sandy Springs.
The German grocery chain Lidl hopes to expand into the United States with two stores planned in Sandy Springs. Both stores are proposed to bring new life to dated and largely abandoned strip centers. Both would come to Roswell Road.
This year, Atlanta experienced changes galore, as towers rose, old buildings came crashing down, transportation won big, and ambitious ideas materialized for how to make Atlanta even greater. Check out the highs, lows, and "whoas!" as the year winds down.
Sandy Springs has unveiled an ambitious plan to build a 20-acre park stretching across Ga. Highway 400 near Pill Hill. If built, the green space would connect Medical Center MARTA station with PATH400 and corporate offices to the west of the highway.
These 4.5 fire acres include 500 feet of river frontage (with primeval fire pit) and a crows nest atop the house that might not do wonders for exterior aesthetics but does provide remarkable panoramic views.
Nestled in a woodsy, pine-canopied setting that basically abuts Interstate 285, this four-level contemporary has undergone the most no-nonsense price reduction in recent memory. Can you say "motivation"?
Earlier this month, three redevelopment projects from around the metro were recognized for their impact at the Metro Atlanta Redevelopment Summit. The biggest takeaway? There are some pretty great projects, and champions of good urbanism, in Atlanta.
Architects gathered in Savannah this weekend to recognize some of the region’s best architecture, with Atlanta firms being recognized in three of the four professional categories. Winners included a synagogue, a courthouse, and offices at PCM.
In January, a mysterious Korean developer proposed a massive five-tower development in Sandy Springs, breaking precedent for even the densest of proposals in the Perimeter Center district. While talk died down, it seems the idea is still very alive.
They’re everywhere: five-story mixed-use apartment developments built out of wood. But soon, they won't be welcome in Sandy Springs, with the approval of a new code effectively barring construction of such mid-rise structures.
Between Ga. Highway 400 and Chastain Park, where the tony northern reaches of Atlanta mingle with Sandy Springs, stands this listing with a style not often seen around here: the California ranch.
The home features 3,100 square feet of living space, accented by natural cedar ceilings, oak floors, mahogany trim and woodwork throughout it. There’s also two separate office spaces and floor to ceiling glass in the main living area.
A week ago, it sounded like Sandy Springs denizens were on the verge of taking up arms against neighboring Cobb County. But now a truce — and productive, governmental collaborations — appears to be at hand.
To help drivers clog Sandy Springs' roadways, Cobb County officials wants to install big signs with "dynamic messages" that can be changed according to traffic patterns. The idea is to route drivers off the interstate for a shortcut.
Just north of Brookhaven, this $1.1 million modern recently wrapped, offering four bedrooms, 2,635 square feet, a saline pool, and the antithesis of shag carpeting — high-gloss concrete floors. Everywhere.
Not too long ago, "SkyHouse" seemed to be trending toward ubiquity in the Atlanta residential scene, with the construction of three towers by Novare bearing the branding. But now, Mill Creek Residential is coming with some serious competition.
It’s not every day you find 3.5 OTP acres that front a private lake with a sandy beach, large pool, putting green, and personal dock, from which the agent suggests a buyer could "knock a few golf balls … into the lake." But inside, quirk abounds.
Tucked within a tight-security subdivision, on a palm-studded 13-acre plot a stone's throw from the Chattahoochee, this sterile but sexy compound of nearly 15,000 square feet was built 26 years ago, and upkeep hasn't been its strong suit.
Tucked behind fancy gates in an ITP subdivision called Buckhead Whitewater Creek, this appears to be a very serene spread, with a tiered oasis in the backyard girded by a sloping screen of lush trees. Plus, it has a bed swing.
A residential street in Sandy Springs could soon be no more, the victim of mixed-use mania sweeping the northern Perimeter area. Abutting the hospitals on Pill Hill, the 13-acre site could soon be home to retail, medical offices, and housing.
Come, decide which Sandy Springs home is most absurdly opulent. The home at 1295 Heards Ferry or 515 Chestnut Rose? Both have similar square footages, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, but each has its own unique, lavish idiosyncrasies.
If you're in the market for a townhome with a pretentiously posh-sounding address, look no further than the latest Ashton Woods offering in Sandy Springs. The new development known as Prescott Walk sits within a larger community at Danbury Park.
At a "transportation summit" the other night, Bryant Poole, Sandy Springs’ assistant city manager in charge of transportation planning, pitched a radical idea that streetcars could theoretically operate on Roswell Road, swallowing two lanes for cars.
Joe The Basketball Player bought this nearly 14,000-square-foot house back in 2005, the year he joined the Hawks. It's located among many other large, ultra-luxury cribs on Londonberry Road in that gray area between Sandy Springs and Buckhead.
Positioned on a Sandy Springs hilltop, between the 'hooch and The Perimeter, this five-bedroom contemporary from 1977 manages to look both cool and exactingly representative of the era.
Last year the historic mansion in Sandy Springs was hastily demolished as preservationists and concerned citizens rallied. With plans finally released for the Mercedes-Benz Headquarters on the site, one photographer headed in to see what remains a year on.
Renderings have emerged for the new Mercedes-Benz North American headquarters. Slated to rise in Sandy Springs, the facility is a study in stark minimalism.