Atlanta Real Estate Forum has recently featured some renderings, descriptions and pricing on the two, new townhome developments rising on either side of Hillyer Place along East Howard Avenue (Streetview).
Monte Hewett Homes is building 24, three-story townhomes along West Howard Ave east of Hillyer Place. According to Atlanta Real Estate Forum, the townhomes will include private outdoor courtyards, iron balconies a community garden and green space. You can view a site plan of the development HERE.
They are priced starting at $589,000 with two different floor plans available and are scheduled to be completed next spring.
On the west side of Hillyer, John Weiland Homes and Neighborhoods is constructing 11 four-story townhomes, according to the Forum, which include rooftop terraces and two car garages.
Units are available starting at $500,000, according to the site.
Also check out Next Stop…Decatur, which has a couple of photos of the recent construction.
2000 to 2200 sq ft is pretty large for a townhouse. Most of the ones in Decatur right now are in the 1600 to 1800 sq ft range.
If I’m reading the floor plans correctly. These are some very narrow units. One appears to be 20 feet wide, and the other 14 feet wide, which might be a new low. Please tell me I’m wrong. Typically townhouse are 24′, 26′ and even 28′ wide. Monte Hewett Homes has a great reputation for being a quality local builder. They must believe the lack of townhouse product this proximate to downtown will overcome the widths. No doubt the land prices are driving the density.
If they have 2 car garages, they cannot be 14 feet wide. A double garage requires at least 20 feet.
DHer is correct. The units are 14′ wide. The 2-car garages along Howard are linear, one car behind the other, rather than side by side.
Oooh, not convenient. Lots of negotiation with driver of other car. Common garage deck parking would be more convenient. These townhomes are just not saying $589,000 to me.
I can’t quite imagine sharing living quarters with a person who was unreasonable about parking choreography. But maybe I’ve lived by myself for too long.
Intown living is, by definition, cozy. I saw a theory floated years ago that kids are better off who grow up in smaller, more crowded houses where they have to share bedrooms and bathrooms, because they learn early on how to be good neighbors in close quarters, how to navigate tempers and temperaments (their own and their siblings’), how to wage battle and how to make peace. In short, they learn how to negotiate life.
I’m all for small and have always said the bigger the house and the higher the ceilings, the more dirty baseboards and cobwebs in ceiling corners there are to clean, not to mention eventually repaint and re-renovate. That’s why I’m so interested in condos and townhouses as they go up here ITD. The idea of less house and no yard is quite appealing. But for $589,000, I wouldn’t want to have to worry about who parked in the garage last. Or is there an app for that now? Or maybe there’s street parking? That’s how those of us with narrow small driveways, no garage parking handle it now. Kind of doubting that area will have street parking.
Well, they only have to sell five of them. All the rest of the units are 20′ wide with side by side garages.
I was wrong that the skinny ones are all along Howard. There’s actually only one skinny one along Howard (the western end) and then four more, capping the ends of each of the two interior rows.
Yep, you can pay $589,000 for an all-new 14′-wide town home that comes with zero windows on two sides (and they seem to be selling), or you can pay $460,000 for a turn-of-the-century bungalow with modern addition on a large city lot immediately next door. Been on the market for a year. Go figure.
What is the difference between a condo and a townhome?
Some townhomes are condos, some are not. It’s a matter of who owns what, inside versus outside and whether the HOA or the individual owner is responsible for maintaining what. Some townhomes are sort of hybrid, with the units being individual fee simple ownership but with common areas, like driveways and landscaping, belonging to the HOA.
A condominium unit is defined by how ownership is structured. (You own the apartment along with any individual deeded space that goes with it, such as a parking space or storage unit, plus undivided interest in common areas such as hallways, grounds, lobby, etc.) A townhome or townhouse is defined by its physical structure: a house with 2-3 levels that shares a wall with another house. A row of townhouses might be set up as a condominium but not necessarily.
Stairs.
As stg said and I tried to say, some townhouse complexes are legally condominiums, so it’s not as simple as stairs or lack thereof.
Winding stairs.
And iron balconies.
Yeah, I know, but people almost never refer to structures with interior stairs as condos.
The Colony Square condo buildings have units with differing levels/interior stairs- definitely condos, not townhomes.
True. A friend of ours lives in Colony Square and she has stairs. Until we met her, I had no idea people lived in Colony Square.
Colony Square was the first example of newly built mixed use I had ever seen, more than thirty years ago. I still think it’s cool.
I can’t resist a segue here. Years ago when I was in college (age 19) I worked at a B&B and served breakfast to lots of professors from other countries. One day I had someone in heavily accented english ask me what a condo was. I then proceeded to launch into a detailed description of a condom. There was a pause, and then the professor kindly inquired as to the difference between and condo and a townhome. Never being one to be embarassed, I just improvised and continued serving the inn’s custom poached eggs and biscuits.
Ahh, memories.
Not that it much matters, given that all townhomes look pretty much alike, but I’m pretty sure that the Wieland development is east of Hillyer and the Hewett development is west of Hillyer, which would be the opposite from what the article stated.
Nobody mention the railroad tracks….
I’ve been living next to the CSX line for so long that I find the gentle rumbling of my house a sort of endearing amenity. Of course, I constitute a very niche market. They’re probably wise to get folks out to the site first…
Here’s an ad for the new skinny townhomes by the tracks.
http://youtu.be/S65lJGs7YC8
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The Monte Hewett homes have the same floorplan as the Knob Hill town homes over on Forkner. Not a great layout if you have more than one child – who gets the tiny garage bedroom?