Atlanta Housing has put the final pieces of its long-running Englewood redevelopment on the table, inviting developers to pitch new housing and retail for roughly eight acres next to the BeltLine. The agency's Request for Proposals calls for about 500 new residences, including a standalone 55-plus building, arranged around a newly built six-acre park and water feature. Responses are due June 16, which gives development teams a tight window if they want in on the closing chapter of the 30-acre Englewood community that replaced a former public housing site.
As reported by Urbanize Atlanta, the sites sit just west of Boulevard off Englewood Avenue, directly south of Grant Park and Zoo Atlanta and alongside the final under-construction segment of the BeltLine’s Southside Trail. The outlet notes that this Southside Trail segment is targeting a June opening and that the development lots wrap the new park that arrived with Englewood’s first phase.
What Atlanta Housing Is Looking For
According to Atlanta Housing, the final phase is split into two multistory family buildings and a standalone age-restricted structure and is intended to deliver "market-quality affordable housing in a mixed-use, mixed-income, and amenity-rich setting." Phases 2A and 2B are expected to bring 400 or more mixed-income apartments with parking decks and internal courtyards. Phase 2C must include at least 80 55-plus units, roughly 7,500 square feet of ground-floor amenity space, and concealed parking. The documents also require ground-floor retail, restaurants, or community uses that face the town-center park and Englewood Avenue, so the new park is not left staring at blank walls.
Phase One Is Already Lining the Street
Work on Phase I is already reshaping Englewood Avenue. The first buildout covers six blocks and totals more than 460 units, roughly 200 family apartments and 160 senior apartments, along with 78 townhouses and 24 duplex homes, Urbanize Atlanta reports. That initial wave of housing lines the new park and sits near the planned Boulevard Crossing Park, which designers have fully drawn up but which still does not have identified funding.
Timeline And Selection Process
The RFP sets a June 16 submission deadline. After that, Atlanta Housing will review proposals, create a shortlist, and send recommendations to its Board of Commissioners for a final decision, according to the solicitation. Proposals must spell out development concepts, building designs, unit mixes, and a full financial plan, and the agency stresses that teams will have to comply with federal requirements such as Section 3.
Funding And The BeltLine Context
Public partners have already put money on the table for earlier phases. Atlanta BeltLine Inc. and Invest Atlanta closed on a $3 million TAD grant to support the senior building, the BeltLine says. At the same time, city planning documents show the Boulevard Crossing Park expansion is fully designed but still depends on future funding. That uncertainty helps explain why the RFP leans hard on active ground-floor uses to keep the park edge lively, even if bigger park investments arrive later.
What It Means For Neighbors
For longtime Chosewood Park residents, the latest moves mark another step in stitching the neighborhood back into the BeltLine corridor. The former Englewood Manor complex once housed more than 300 families before it was cleared in 2009, industry filings note. Advocates and local leaders have framed the multi-phase redevelopment as a shot at bringing affordable homes closer to transit and new green space, although questions remain about how fast some of the public improvements will follow the buildings.
Developers and neighbors alike will be watching closely through the summer as Atlanta Housing weighs proposals and the BeltLine finishes nearby trail segments. The agency says it will share more details as the selection process moves toward a board vote later this year.
