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Westside Apartment Developments: Is Howell Mill Rd Ready to Handle Increased Traffic?

A look at three apartment developments on the westside along with additional construction coming to the area of the already heavily traversed Howell Mill Road.

It’s the Midtown Patch Question and Picture and of the Day all rolled together as we take a look at development activity along Howell Mill Road on the westside of Atlanta. The pictures consist of two projects currently under construction and a third that looks to break ground this year. Plus, a shot of an additional construction project coming to the area near Howell Mill and Huff Road. First up is about a 3-acre property bounded by 9th Street, 8th Street, Brady Avenue and Howell Mill that is currently home to chef Ford Fry’s very popular The Optimist restaurant that opened last spring. Perennial Properties, which would like to deliver the project by Fall of 2014, has proposed a mixed-use development with 230 apartments and 9,000 square …

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Another mixed-use proposed for the westside

Perennial Properties proposed development would include 230 apartments and 9,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space wrapped around a multilevel parking deck.

A newly proposed mixed-use development targeting Atlanta’s westside would include 230 apartments and 9,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space wrapped around a multilevel parking deck. Perennial Properties wants to rezone 2.965 acres of property bounded by 9th Street, 8th Street, Brady Avenue and Howell Mill Road near where The Optimist restaurant currently sits and hopefully deliver the project by fall of 2014. The proposed rezoning from I-1 and I-2 to MRC-3 for 930 Howell Mill is to enable the site to allow multifamily units to be constructed on the property, along with the retail and restaurant in the existing building to remain. In its application to the city, Perennial Properties indicated the project is a re-development that …

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