A Community in Need

If you've walked or rolled the newly opened BeltLine Southeast Trail, you've probably noticed Trestletree Village Apartments spanning two clusters in Grant Park and Ormewood Park. These very low density, very old WWII-era Section 8 apartments sit in stark contrast with the $1 million+ modern mansions on the opposite face of the BeltLine trail. The residents face tough living conditions ranging from an 8-decade maintenance bill, antagonistic neighbors, out of state property management, and a legendary cockroach infestation (noted in the AJC's Dangerous Dwellings investigation).

A Rare Opportunity for "Development without Displacement"

Luckily, a new potential owner has entered the scene: Wingate Companies. This is the same team behind the widely lauded City Lights redevelopment that preserved and expanded Affordable homes in Old Fourth Ward, and they want to implement that same successful strategy along the BeltLine Southeast Trail. Their plan is to rebuild the Trestletree Village Apartments as modern BeltLine homes, preserving the 188 existing Affordable homes and adding hundreds of new market rate homes as well. All residents will be able to remain on-site during construction and be guaranteed a subsidized home in the new 208 unit mixed-income building.

While this project can move forward without zoning variances (yay!), they still need Invest Atlanta to vote to fund the subsidies that preserve the existing Affordable homes.

NIMBYs Gonna NIMBY: Bad Faith Virtue Signaling Edition

The same old voices of "no" are at it again, falsely claiming that this plan to integrate the existing subsidized housing residents with new market rate residents is somehow "segregation", "redlining", you-name-it-social-justice-buzzword. But the private Facebook pages of Grant Park and Ormewood Park tell a different story, with local million dollar homeowners hysterically bemoaning traffic, parking, trees, and the usual NIMBY strawman arguments.

The Grant Park Neighborhood Association has formally voted to oppose this project (boooooo), but the Ormewood Park neighborhood association SAND (South Atlantans for Neighborhood Development) lived up to its name and voted in support (whoop whoop)! The larger NPU-W vote is next week on August 18th, and most Trestletree Village residents will not be allowed to vote because of exclusionary time-tax voting bylaws.

We need your voice! We invite all Atlanta residents to join SAND in support of this project preserving and adding new homes on the BeltLine!

Additional information:

Trestletree Stake Holder Redevelopment Update - 8/12/2026 (Latest update)
Trestletree NPU-W Land Use Committee Presentation
AJC Opinion: Trestletree tenants deserve to be heard in redevelopment planning
Trestletree Village Day One Resident Commitments