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Images: How vision for unique Capitol View infill project has evolved Josh Green Thu, 09/05/2024 - 15:11 An infill concept with classic design leanings in Capitol View is aiming to show that affordable residential development in Atlanta doesn’t necessarily have to look cheap or banal.

Just don’t hold your breath, ATL housing advocates, for the project to move forward soon.

As first reported on these pages in November 2022, the Flicker Development proposal calls for a new four-story apartment building rising across two lots at 1361 and 1365 Metropolitan Parkway, just south of Dill Avenue and within walking distance of the Beltline’s Southside Trail corridor.

The land in question currently contains an older home that wasn’t occupied at the time, according to developers, but that may have changed.

Plans for “1365 Metro” have evolved since then in interesting ways, as Fathom Architecture renderings illustrate.

An updated rendering for the multifamily concept at 1361 and 1365 Metropolitan Parkway in Capitol View. Courtesy of Fathom Architecture

A classic entry for the 1365 Metro project at street level. Courtesy of Fathom Architecture

According to building permit filings from July 2023, the project would include 62 one bedroom, one bathroom units across a total of 23,000 interior square feet. Department of City Planning records show no permitting activity since then, and a project rep this week says no outlook on a potential groundbreaking is available.

The apartments would be considered micro units, and the building would be topped with two terraces on the roof, with the project’s “common building materials arranged in an elegant design,” per Fathom’s website.

The building would be located about two blocks from the Beltline’s first Southside Trail section to open, also just south of where RangeWater Real Estate built a 325-apartment community called The Vivian in the same neighborhood.

View looking north along Metropolitan Parkway. Courtesy of Fathom Architecture

Where the Capitol View properties are located in relation to downtown. Google Maps

According to plans submitted to the Beltline Development Review Committee in 2022, 15 percent of the apartments would be reserved for tenants earning 80 percent of the area median income or less to comply with the Beltline’s Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance. Specific ranges for rents haven’t been specified.

Developers have said the project would be built with modular construction—a rarity for Atlanta.

That’s a process of assembling units in factories, and then stacking them with cranes on site to cut back on construction costs and speed the building process.

Should it move forward, the development would join a planned renovation and expansion of a 1920s Masons hall on the same side of Metropolitan Parkway, less than a block away, as an example of developer optimism in the corridor.

Find more context and updated visuals in the gallery above.

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