Images: Latest facet of Blandtown community starts to deliver

Josh Green

Wed, 06/04/2025 – 01:25

After four years of construction and dozens of homes sold, the next facet of a project that’s been a major contributor to Blandtown’s residential groundswell is now taking shape.

Deliveries, closings, and move-ins are scheduled to start this month and continue through the end of 2025 for another 68 homes (52 for-sale condos and 16 townhomes) at Empire Longreen, an expansive infill project west of Midtown, according to project leaders.

Officials with active intown developer Empire Communities say homes in Longreen’s next phase will start in the $320,000s and climb to about $650,000.

That will buy between 640 and 1,853 square across one to three stories, with between one and three bedrooms, per the developer.

Aimed at alternate transportation enthusiasts, the distinctively green, two-bedroom Urban Bungalow ($429,779 for 1,004 square feet) at Longreen’s corner includes three levels but no covered parking. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Named for a finished, .4-acre public greenspace along Booth Avenue that’s part of the development, Longreen is about a block from the Northwest Trail route the Beltline picked in 2022 to snake through the area. The site, situated along Huff Road, spans three city blocks and five and ½ previously vacant acres in the historic Blandtown neighborhood, where other recent development has largely been for-rent apartments and single-family homes.

According to an updated site map, about 90 Longreen homes—pitched as “the epitome of cool”—have sold to date.

Once finished, Longreen will include 179 condos and townhomes in the 900 block of Huff Road, officials have said.

Marketing materials have pegged the location as being “steps from the Beltline,” an “eight-minute drive to Westside Park,” and a “four-minute drive to The Works” mixed-use warehouse complex. Empire closed on the Blandtown property in late 2020 and broke ground the following year.

The full updated Longreen site plan along Huff Road. The latest section of the community to rise is at far right. Empire Communities/Longreen

Longreen facades taking shape along Boyd Avenue today. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

For-sale condominium products have popped up across Atlanta in recent years but remain relatively rare in comparison to new apartments.

Examples range from ritzy (Graydon Buckhead) and glassy (Seven88 West Midtown) high-rises, to Beltline-adjacent boutiques (The Roycraft) and throwback buildings (Kirkwood’s Pullman Flats) that echo their surroundings.

More recently, for-sale condo ventures and proposals have emerged in locales such as Old Fourth Ward, Chosewood Park on the southside, and Sandy Springs up north.

Find more context and glimpses at how Longreen’s latest section is coming together in the gallery above.

The Empire Longreen project’s location off Huff Road, between Westside Park and Atlantic Station. Google Maps