A 21-acre property making up much of southwestern Atlanta’s small Oakcliff neighborhood is being positioned to hold as many as 400 homes plus commercial space.
The undeveloped, wooded site, which is currently in the rezoning process, borders the end of Oakcliff Court to the west, Lake Valley Road to the north and east, and Oakcliff Road to the south. It is owned by realtor Deborah Knowles and being marketed and rezoned by Resurgence Consulting LLC.
“The property is listed for $35 million, and we’re doing what we can to go ahead and sell it,” Resurgence Consulting President and CEO Elijah Tutt told What Now Atlanta.
Working with Atlanta-based architecture and planning firm Studio H, Tutt said he is in the process of requesting a rezoning of the site from R-3 single-family zoning to MR-4 multifamily residential to allow for about 300 affordable apartments alongside 100 attached and detached single-family dwellings.
Tutt said the team is also exploring the possibility of requesting a variance to allow for some commercial uses as part of a future development.
He said there are currently four developers who have expressed interest in buying the property to develop a mixed-income housing project with hundreds of homes.
The project, which would rise about half a mile north of M.L.K Jr. Drive, could be one of many that helps invigorate that part of Southwest Atlanta, said Tutt, who also founded Resurgence Consulting.
“One of the things I’m pushing for is that the city of Atlanta and the business community take a look at Southwest Atlanta and at the MLK corridor and see what can be done to bring a change,” he said. “That’s one of the reasons I’m so passionate about this piece of property.”
