Experience upscale city living in this spacious and light-filled 5th-floor residence at The Brookwood—one of Buckhead’s most sought-after addresses. This expansive 3-bedroom, 3-bath home (or 2 bedroom with a versatile den or home office) offers a sleek, open-concept layout highlighted by 10-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, wide-plank wood floors in the living space and new carpet in the bedrooms.
The gourmet kitchen features extensive cabinet space, top-of-the-line Viking stainless steel appliances, a large stone island perfect for entertaining and casual dining. The living area flows seamlessly to a private balcony, ideal for morning coffee or evening relaxation while enjoying the views beyond.
The oversized primary suite has custom-built closet and an ensuite bath, and the additional bedroom is great for guests. Enjoy the convenience of two assigned parking spaces.
Residents of The Brookwood enjoy 24-hour concierge service in the beautiful lobby, and luxurious, resort-style amenities including a heated saline pool, state-of-the-art fitness center, clubroom, and an outdoor lounge area. This home offers the best of Buckhead living—walkable to the Beltline, shopping and dining, and located just between Midtown and Buckhead Village.
Walk everywhere! This spacious condo offers a central location and all the amenities you can imagine. The Brookwood is situated between Midtown and Buckhead on Peachtree Road. Easily walkable to great restaurants, convenient shopping, the Shepherd Center, and Piedmont Hospital.
Homeowners at the Brookwood have access to amenities like a fitness center, saline pool, outdoor kitchen, coffee station, guest suites, underground assigned parking and available concierge services. The Brookwood is also the first LEED-Certified high-rise condo tower in Atlanta.
The light-filled corner unit has garden and city views from the 6th floor. An open floor plan enhances the sense of scale in the main living/kitchen space. The large living area flows easily into the kitchen and dining area, with beautiful hardwood floors throughout.
The kitchen features a spacious island with lots of storage, Viking appliances, and stone counter tops. A sliding door provides access to the outdoor balcony.
The primary bedroom suite includes a generous ensuite bath with a separate tub and shower, plus a large walk-in closet with custom built-in storage. A large window provides lots of natural light, and the suite includes private access to the outdoor balcony.
A second bedroom suite is on the opposite end of the main living space, making the layout very private for family or guests. The second bedroom has an ensuite full bath and a generous closet.
The third room is a flex space with multiple uses. It is an obvious choice for a home office or media room, while 2 built-in Murphy beds and an ensuite full bath make it the perfect guest room.
The new Arthur M. Blank Family Residences building is complete and will soon welcome its first guests. The 16-story tower is located just south of the Shepherd Center at 1860 Peachtree Road. Part of an extensive $360 million expansion and renovation of the Shepherd Center, the tower will double the Center’s housing with 165 new accessible units.
According to the Shepherd Center, “The new housing tower will allow families and day program patients who are receiving life-storing neurorehabilitation at the hospital and who live more than 60 miles from Shepherd Center to stay in donor-funded housing for the full duration of their loved one’s rehabilitation, helping ease the financial and emotional burden of being away from home.”
The new tower was officially opened in August of 2024, and will begin hosting patients and their families in October.
Home Depot co-founder and owner of the Atlanta Falcons, Arthur Blank is a long-time Shepherd Center donor. The Blank Family Foundation awarded a $50 million grant to fund the new Family Residences building. Earlier this year, Arthur Blank said in a statement. “Our family foundation is honored to support Shepherd Center in helping more families heal together. We hope that having a safe, accessible place to call home here in Atlanta while they are away from their own homes will help lift the incredible burden of these types of trauma in some small way so that families and patients can focus on their healing and each other at a time when that is the most important and most needed.”
Shepherd Center improvements include renovation of the Center’s main campus to modernize patient rooms and expand the Center’s capacity, and the new Marcus Center for Advanced Rehabilitation.
The Marcus Center for Advanced Rehabilitation next door to the main Shepherd Center building is expected to open in early 2025. Funded by an $80 million grant from longtime supporter The Marcus Foundation, the new 30,000-square-foot Innovation Institute will allow the Shepherd Center to expand its day programs and outpatient services. Like his fellow Home Depot co-founder, Bernie Marcus and his wife Billi have been supporting the Shepherd Center for decades.
Part of the Atlanta BeltLine’s Northwest Trail now has a tentative route through Buckhead, while a controversial and complicated part at Peachtree Road will undergo months of further study.
The partial route selection, announced in a May 12 virtual community meeting by Atlanta BeltLine Inc. (ABI), means that survey and preliminary design and engineering work will immediately begin on some sub-segments of the trail. Construction would be years away, though ABI has a self-set deadline of 2030.
ABI engineer Shaun Green also said it is possible that, after further study, some segments of the trail may not be built – at least, not as part of the BeltLine. Other parties, such as the City or the PATH Foundation – ABI’s Northwest Trail partner – might fill in such gaps if they happen, he suggested.
The BeltLine is the 22-mile loop of trails, transit and green space being constructed around the city by Atlanta Beltline Inc. The Northwest Trail segment would run roughly 4.3 miles between the Huff Road/Westside Park area and the Northeast Trail, another segment on the drawing boards that would connect in Peachtree Hills. An existing, isolated portion of the BeltLine called the Northside Trail already exists around Atlanta Memorial Park, so Northwest Trail planning involves plugging new trails into the west and east sides of that.
ABI and the PATH Foundation have spent a year studying the feasibility of several alternative routes: four on the west side of Atlanta Memorial Park, and three to the east.
Planners have settled on a west-side route known as Corridor 2. It connects Huff Road and Ardmore Park/Tanyard Creek Park via Blandtown and Loring Heights/Berkeley Park. It would run past the Hemphill Waterworks and cross I-75 with an underpass bridge. A bridge-like segment along a channelized portion of Tanyard Creek is also a possibility.
The east-side route is still undecided. It’s a complicated tangle where planners are still unsure how to cross Peachtree. And local residents are giving heavy resistance to concerns about property and security impacts, as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. ABI says two to three months of further study is needed, with another community meeting coming in August.
However, all proposed east-side routes dovetail to the same area along Peachtree Creek to Kinsey Court in Peachtree Hills. ABI says that sub-segment is certain enough to begin surveying and preliminary design and engineering as well.
For planning and construction purposes, the Northwest Trail route is divided into five segments. Segments 1 and 2 are the east-side trail and Segments 3, 4 and 5 are the west-side trail. Three of those segments will go into the immediate preliminary design work:
Segment 2 is the still undetermined route between Atlanta Memorial Park and Peachtree Creek. Segment 4 runs between English Street and Trabert Avenue.
ABI has said the Northwest Trail is the most complicated part of the trail to plan because of the density of existing development and infrastructure that includes highways and railroad lines. “The Northwest corridor is really our final frontier,” said Kim Wilson, ABI’s vice president of design and construction, in the meeting.
As part of its partial route selection, ABI produced a 102-page feasibility report on how the options were vetted. That included many criteria, from funding flexibility and cost to safety and community impact.
Public feedback was another factor, and ABI got a lot of it, especially regarding the contentious east-side trail. Clyde Higgs, ABI’s president and CEO, made an unusual appearance at the start of the meeting to assure the audience its concerns were being heard. He said ABI was “encouraged” by the large amount of feedback, “even those of you who have written to us through their attorneys.”
A question-and-answer session in the meeting included several comments further highlighting concerns that the trail would make homes more accessible to criminals or lower property values. ABI officials variously questioned some of those premises and said there are design mitigations, but it’s too early to go into such details.
Planners understand that “we are changing the status quo,” said ABI engineer Shaun Green. “We are changing the existing condition. That’s our purpose, really. I’m sorry you’re feeling as impacted as you are.” He said more details would come through the process, which will include more public and stakeholder meetings.
As for construction timing, Wilson said it typically takes a year to finish design and 18 months of construction per mile of trail. But she also noted that the Northwest Trail is especially complicated. She said building some of its segments could take two to three years. But it is impossible to know any timeline for sure at this early stage.
Even less certain is the light-rail portion of the BeltLine, which has not been built anywhere yet and faces even more complex challenges in the Northwest quadrant. ABI has said it is committed to transit and hopes to build it in partnership with MARTA by 2050. The Northwest route mostly would not match the trail and instead would have to go along existing railroad corridors, said Green.
Meanwhile, Buckhead’s portion of the Northeast Trail is also in a planning stage and also facing complicated streets and infrastructure. That trail will connect the Lindbergh Center MARTA Station to Piedmont Park. A segment is under construction between the park and Plasters Avenue where a preliminary, unpaved trail runs.
For more details, including the meeting video and presentation, see ABI’s website.
Buckhead’s Atlanta Police Department precinct is seeing a changing of the guard as its current commander has received a promotion to deputy chief.
Andrew Senzer, who has led the Zone 2 precinct since November 2019 with the rank of major, will head APD’s Strategy and Special Projects Division, he announced at an April 7 meeting of the Buckhead Public Safety Task Force.
Major Ailen Mitchell, who has served as Senzer’s assistant since 2020, will be the new Zone 2 commander, Deputy Chief Timothy Peek said in the meeting.
The transition will happen on April 14, according to APD. The current head of the Strategy and Special Projects Division, Deputy Chief Darin Schierbaum, is being promoted to the vacant position of assistant chief of police.
Senzer was Buckhead’s police commander through the historic COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying crime spike, including the May 2020 rioting and looting in local business areas that spun out of Black Lives Matter protests about the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd.
He also led through the beginning of the Buckhead cityhood movement that based itself on crime concerns. While crime spiked, Senzer took a zero-tolerance approach and Buckhead continues to have the city’s lowest crime rate.
“It really has been an honor to serve as the commander of Zone 2,” Senzer said in the task force meeting. “In my 26 years [in policing], this has probably been the most challenging assignment I’ve had.”
He said his new role will be “a little behind the scenes” but that he will “not be a stranger” in Buckhead.
Peek said APD is “ecstatic” about Senzer taking on the deputy chief role.
Mitchell, according to his APD biography, has been with the department since 2006. He previously commanded the SWAT team and, like Senzer, once served on the Red Dog unit, an anti-drug squad disbanded in 2011 after controversial incidents like an illegal raid on the Atlanta Eagle gay bar. Among his other work was the Gang Unit and the Auto Theft Task Force.
Mitchell became Zone 2’s Criminal Investigations Unit commander in 2018 and its assistant commander in 2020.
Zone 2 is headquartered at 3120 Maple Drive in Buckhead Village.
Update: This story has been updated with information from APD about the transition.
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