A trio of vacant lots on Tremont Drive in Atlanta's Dixie Hills neighborhood is being pitched for new construction, with a proposed three-bedroom home at 1901 Tremont Drive NW carrying a starting price of $560,000 — more than triple the area's typical home value. Construction has not yet begun on any of the three properties, which sit near Joseph E. Boone Boulevard west of Downtown Atlanta.
The Tremont Drive plans include three separate infill housing projects clustered near neighborhood greenspaces, according to Urbanize Atlanta. The 1901 Tremont Drive NW property is listed by The Armani Agency and described in listings as a proposed “striking modern” house. Two other lots are available down the street from the main parcel, and a neighboring lot sale reportedly includes approved plans and permits, per the sales team cited by the outlet.
The proposed home at 1901 Tremont Drive NW is designed with two above-ground levels, three bedrooms, and two and one-half bathrooms, with a full basement and garage excluded from the square-footage calculations. Renderings show an open-concept kitchen, a dedicated home office, an upstairs flex loft, and a spa-inspired bath off the primary suite. The plans also call for a sliding glass door system in the living room meant to connect to an outdoor entertaining area, and a 469-square-foot basement. According to The Armani Agency, the project renderings represent what the homes would look like with builder-grade finishes.
A Steep Price Gap in a Historically Affordable Neighborhood
Dixie Hills' typical home value was $179,964 in July 2026, a 2.9% drop over the previous year, according to Zillow. The proposed $560,000 price tag for the finished Tremont Drive home sits at more than three times that figure, underscoring how new-construction infill pricing in the neighborhood has diverged sharply from the existing housing stock.
A separate lot nearby carries an asking price of $115,000. Per listings from BHHS Georgia Properties, that figure covers the vacant parcel itself along with city-approved building plans and permits already in place, sitting in Flood Zone X — a distinction from the $560,000 figure, which represents the expected price of the completed residence once built. The lot is zoned R-5, Atlanta's Two-Family Residential District, which allows small-lot single-family homes or duplex construction and requires a minimum lot size of roughly 7,400 to 7,500 square feet, a designation common near MARTA transit corridors.
This is not the first time new-construction infill has landed in Dixie Hills at prices well above the neighborhood norm. In November 2023, builder MCE Residential completed four standalone two-bedroom homes at 1996 Joseph E. Boone Boulevard priced at $353,700 each, on a 0.16-acre lot about a mile north of Westview Cemetery, according to Urbanize Atlanta.
Transit Access and Neighborhood Greenspace
The three vacant parcels sit on Tremont Drive near Joseph E. Boone Boulevard, roughly 0.7 miles from the West Lake MARTA Station on the Blue Line, offering direct transit connectivity into Downtown Atlanta, per the Dixie Hills Community Civic Club. Area greenspaces and landmarks near the site include Anderson Park, the Tremont Playlot, and Lincoln Cemetery. Anderson Park, Dixie Hills' primary public park, sits about 0.3 miles from the site and includes athletic fields, tennis courts, a playground, and an outdoor swimming pool, according to Realtor.com.
Dixie Hills was established in 1938 as a planned African American middle-class neighborhood, developed by Black real estate pioneer Heman E. Perry alongside contractor Herman Glass, per Wikipedia. The neighborhood falls under Neighborhood Planning Unit J, where City of Atlanta land-use policy calls for preserving low-density single-family residential character while still encouraging targeted infill development, according to the City of Atlanta Planning Department. Joseph E. Boone Boulevard itself was renamed in 1998 to honor the civil rights leader, who led Rush Memorial Congregational Church and helped guide the Atlanta Student Movement, after previously being known as Simpson Street.
Part of a Wider Citywide Divide
The Tremont Drive proposal lands amid a broader citywide trend that an April 2026 analysis described as a widening “K-shaped” disparity across Atlanta, in which lower-priced Westside neighborhoods saw annual price declines even as wealthier northern neighborhoods appreciated, per Urbanize Atlanta's review of Zillow Home Value Index data spanning roughly 200 intown neighborhoods. That divergence frames the Tremont Drive project as a local example of a citywide pattern, where new-construction pricing in historically affordable neighborhoods increasingly outpaces the surrounding housing stock's value.
Hoodline has previously covered state efforts to protect local homeownership, part of a broader conversation about affordability pressures across Georgia. For now, all three Tremont Drive lots remain undeveloped, with the plans and permits in place but no groundbreaking yet reported.
