A half-acre stretch of Old Fourth Ward that once held a neighborhood corner store is now up for grabs, with approved plans calling for eight new homes split between five townhomes and three duplexes. The site sits between the BeltLine's Eastside Trail and the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park, just east of a Circle K convenience store on Boulevard, and comprises three parcels — 0 Irwin Street, 0 Hogue Street, and 100 Hogue Street.
The project, known as Homes on Hogue, was first reported by Urbanize Atlanta, whose Josh Green wrote that the approved development plans include a new internal street cutting through the middle of the block, with the five townhomes fronting Irwin Street. The homes would join other standalone residences that Homes on Hogue has already completed next door, according to the same report. The City of Atlanta approved the home parcels back in 2022, though the land itself only hit the market on August 3, listed by Keller Knapp, Inc. under MLS numbers 10819255 and 7811534, per Homes.com, which also lists the property's tax parcel ID as 14-0046-0012-348-6 with estimated annual property taxes of $10,535.
A Corner Store's Long Vacancy Ends in New Construction
One section of the property was formerly occupied by the Boyd Variety Store, a neighborhood corner market that also served as a state-approved WIC grocer for Old Fourth Ward residents before it closed, according to Creative Loafing. The Boyd Variety Store site has sat vacant for a couple of years, per the Urbanize Atlanta report, leaving a gap in retail access on a block otherwise dominated by residential construction.
The listing pitches the land sale as an incredible opportunity for developers and homebuilders, describing the surrounding area as a high-growth corridor where nearby blocks have strong demand for new construction. Sellers are asking $2 million for the half-acre site, the listing states. Those figures track with recent sales on the same street — 109 Hogue St NE sold for $695,000 in November 2025, and 102 Hogue St NE sold for $700,000 in April 2022, according to Redfin.
Walkable, Bikeable — and Watched by a Major Affordable Housing Push Next Door
The listing also touts the site's transit access, describing excellent transit in this part of town. Homes.com places the site 0.4 miles from the King Historic District transit station, with a walk score of 91 out of 100, a bike score of 85, and a transit score of 78. The property falls within Atlanta Public Schools' feeder pattern for Hope-Hill Elementary, David T. Howard Middle, and Midtown High School.
Just north along Irwin Street, the Historic District Development Corporation is building Henderson Place, a 76-unit fully affordable apartment community with ground-floor commercial space, per Urbanize Atlanta's reporting and additional detail from Atlanta Urbanize. HDDC, co-founded in 1980 by Coretta Scott King, works to protect the MLK National Historical Park corridor through preservation and non-displacement housing programs, and has restored or developed more than 120 single-family homes and hundreds of rental units over the decades. The proximity places a market-rate infill project — where standalone homes nearby have fetched close to $700,000 — directly beside one of the neighborhood's largest non-profit affordable housing efforts.
Part of a Broader Building Wave Along the Eastside Trail
Any construction on the site will have to comply with Atlanta's BeltLine Overlay District regulations, known as SPI-22, which set streetscape widths, pedestrian amenity zones, and design guidelines for projects near the Eastside Trail. Old Fourth Ward's overall median home sale price sat around $325,000 across all property types in mid-2026, but detached single-family and townhome properties held a notably higher median value near $463,000, according to Redfin data.
The Homes on Hogue proposal arrives as other large residential projects move forward nearby. A few blocks away at Boulevard and Highland Avenue, site work began earlier this year on The Bowery, a project slated to deliver 273 apartments, 12 townhomes, and 10,000 square feet of retail by 2028, as Hoodline previously reported. Together, the projects illustrate how Old Fourth Ward continues shifting from its industrial and low-density commercial past into a denser, walkable residential corridor anchored by the BeltLine.
Hogue Street itself has a long residential history, with newspaper archives showing it functioned as an established residential street in Old Fourth Ward as far back as 1933, according to the Atlanta Daily World. Whether the Homes on Hogue parcels sell at the asking price — or how quickly construction might follow — remains to be seen.
