The Garrison leases up on a former landfill along Grant Park's stretch of the Beltline

TPA Residential spent $7 million digging 150,000 yards of buried trash out of a Boulevard Heights site before building nearly 300 homes on it.

Facades—and a future retail space, per developers—for The Garrison project in Boulevard Heights.
Facades—and a future retail space, per developers—for The Garrison project in Boulevard Heights.The Garrison/Highpoint Development
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The Garrison Highpoint Development TPAThe Garrison/Highpoint Development

Leasing has started at The Garrison, TPA Residential's 228-apartment, 63-townhome project at 1104 Avondale Avenue SE in Boulevard Heights, two blocks from the Beltline's Southeast Trail. The 8.2-acre site was a city-operated drinking water chlorination facility before it was abandoned and became an informal landfill; neighbors called the resulting debris pile "Mount Rubbish."

TPA spent roughly $7 million removing about 150,000 cubic yards of buried waste, then added another $1 million for Beltline-facing lighting and landscaping. One-bedrooms start at $1,545 a month and three-bedroom townhomes reach $3,690; 43 units, 15%, are reserved as affordable at 80% AMI or below under the Beltline's inclusionary housing rule.

TPA is also building The Penman, a 275-unit project with ground-floor retail, elsewhere along the same trail segment.

Why it matters

It shows what it actually costs to turn a polluted industrial leftover into Beltline-adjacent housing, and how the trail's inclusionary rule plays out unit by unit.

JurisdictionCity of Atlanta
Scale291 units (228 apartments + 63 townhomes) on 8.2 acres
TimelineRemediation complete; leasing began July 2026
WhoTPA Residential

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How a row of The Garrison's townhome offerings has come together at street level.
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Overview of the Southeast Atlanta project, with (from left) downtown, Midtown, and Buckhead skylines in the distance.
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Garage entries at The Garrison townhomes today.
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