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Entire Town For Sale On Ebay

It’s not Atlanta real estate, but I couldn’t resist posting about a small town for sale. It seems that the owner has decided to sell the entire town of Albert, Texas. And what’s even more intriguing is that he is selling it, via auction, on eBay.
Albert, Texas is a 13 acre town just 50 miles […]

Village At Redwine Planned For East Point

Developers submitted plans recently for a mixed use development in East Point called Village at Redwine. The development will sit on 81 acres of land near Redwine Road and North Commerce Drive. 32% of the acreage will be saved for green space. Here are a few other particulars:

988 Residences
34,000 Square feet of office space
8,000 square […]

New Atlanta Beltline Project Announced For Grant Park

Construction should begin sometime in January of 2008 on a $75 million project in Grant Park, near the proposed Beltline, which will include;

342 Apartments
57 Townhomes
An 8 acre dog park
Volleyball courts
A garden
A […]

Forbes Ranks Atlanta As One Of Top 10 Most Stable Housing Markets

Most of us in the Atlanta real estate industry have been screaming this for a long time. Atlanta is a very stable housing market!!! We don’t see the huge price swings that folks in the Northeast, California and Florida see. Therefore we don’t have to worry about our local real estate market crumbling. I truly […]

Lavista Walk: An Atlanta Mixed Use Development

At the intersection of Chesire bridge and Lavista Road, a new community is being built. This mixed use development will consist of:

283 Luxury Apartments
134 Stacked Townhome Units
11,000 Square Feet of Street Level retail Space

Lavista Walk will be a gated community and the townhome units will be made up of one, two and three bedroom floorplans. […]

Morningside Targeted For Residential Mixed Use Development

The Opus Corporation is considering an area at the southeast corner of Piedmont Road and Cheshire Bridge for a new mixed use development. The targeted property is the current locations for Buckhead Midtown Vaccum, the Pot ‘n Pan restaurant, Piedmont Pawn, Da Chicago Dogs, Axiom Salon and a Nationwide Insurance office.
The proposed development would consist […]

Fun With Billboards

Whether this billboard earns business by making someone laugh or snags a bit of buzz by pissing people off, it was a stroke of genius by whomever designed it. I would love to throw out some link love to the website that is advertised on the billboard, but alas, the website only goes to a […]

NPR To Air Series About Atlanta’s Proposed Beltline

Tomorrow morning, WABE (90.1 FM) will air a seven part series on Atlanta’s Beltline, a 22 mile loop of historic railroad that will pass through and connect 45 in-town Atlanta neighborhoods. The series will be heard on NPR’s “Morning Edition” sometime between 5:00-9:00AM.
Beginning Thursday, September 13, “Morning Edition” on NPR (WABE 90.1 FM), will present […]

Fort McPherson Talks Redevelopment

Government officials, both city and state, met today to go over plans for the redevelopment of the 487 acre Fort McPherson property, which announced, in 2005, that it was closing in 2011. What these officials came up with was asking the U.S. Army to donate 155 of those acres for a research park.
a scientific research […]

Celebrity Real Estate

If you’re a fan of keeping up with where celebrities live and what their houses look like, I’m going to share three websites with you here that should keep you in the loop.

Luxist - Luxist is a luxury blog for everything from apparel to pets to luxury real estate. They have an Estate of the […]