The latest construction timetable for two Reynoldstown blocks beside the Atlanta Beltline’s Southeast Trail points to work starting in early 2028, later than earlier forecasts. Allen Morris Company and its local partners have secured neighborhood support for a plan with roughly 350 apartments, ground-floor retail, and underground parking near Memorial Drive, where redevelopment proposals have surfaced for years.
Allen Morris has negotiated with the Reynoldstown Civic Improvement League over entitlement for 205 Holtzclaw St. and 903 Mauldin St., according to Urbanize Atlanta. The two parcels are planned for mixed-use development, with Morrison Properties and Metzger & Company as local partners. The project would be Allen Morris’s first eastside venture in Atlanta; the company is also behind West Midtown’s Star Metals district.
The Reynoldstown Civic Improvement League voted in favor of revised plans in October 2025, with 60 percent of the group supporting them. Metzger & Co. has pursued development plans for the Mauldin Street property intermittently for more than 18 years, according to the outlet. The neighborhood vote marks a recent step forward after a long planning history, but the city entitlement process is still to come.
Two Parcels, One Vision
Morrison Properties owns the southern parcel, which includes a vacant lot and low-rise warehouse-style buildings formerly occupied by DooGallery. Plans call for about 8,000 square feet of retail space and underground parking. The northern block at 930 Mauldin St. is slated for a Z-shaped design that has appeared in earlier plans. A separate standalone proposal for that address called for 142 apartments and 2,700 square feet of retail, but those designs were later scrapped after approval through a 2022 rezoning process, according to Urbanize Atlanta.
Perkins & Will is designing both portions of the development. The plan calls for market-rate and workforce housing. Inclusionary zoning requirements apply because of the site’s Beltline proximity, but the available project details do not specify which affordability options will be used.
What is known about affordability
The current project details do not identify income limits or the number of apartments that would be restricted. As a separate Reynoldstown example, Urbanize Atlanta reported that all homes at Madison at Reynoldstown are reserved for families earning 80 percent of area median income or less under a 30-year agreement; that separate project does not establish the terms for the Allen Morris proposal.
A Timeline That Keeps Shifting
The formal city application and construction start remain separate milestones. Allen Morris officials have said the team plans to submit an application to begin the entitlement process by the end of 2026 and aims to move the project toward groundbreaking by year-end.
But construction start dates have varied across coverage. The most recent report from the outlet says demolition and construction work is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2028. That's a shift from an earlier report from the same publication, which said officials expected to break ground in either late 2026 or early 2027, and from a separate account by Bisnow, which reported Allen Morris was working toward putting a shovel into the ground in the fourth quarter of 2026. None of the reporting reviewed explains the reason for the apparent delay. Once underway, Allen Morris officials have said construction would take about 22 months.
Part Of A Bigger Push East
An Allen Morris representative said the Reynoldstown development would add retail activity to the neighborhood. The company is also planning long-term final phases of its Star Metals district in West Midtown, where it opened the 22-story Stella at the Star Metals apartment tower, and opened the Bryn House project in North Druid Hills in 2023.
Another Allen Morris proposal in Atlanta has faced a different path. The company owns a Beltline Westside Trail property about two miles west of Star Metals, where plans to sell the site to Atlanta Mission for redevelopment were abandoned after strong opposition in July. In Reynoldstown, the company has secured neighborhood support, though city entitlement remains pending.
The market context cited by Bisnow points to continued apartment development on Atlanta’s east side: its most recent third-quarter snapshot showed 576 units underway, more than 3,100 additional units in the pipeline, and occupancy above 97 percent. The Reynoldstown proposal still needs a formal city application, and its reported construction start has moved from earlier forecasts to the first quarter of 2028.
