Sandy Springs' 400-home Hillcrest project lands its first retail tenants as construction passes the podium

Developers Third & Urban and Trammell Crow Company announced Salted Melon and Chastain Creamery as the first retail tenants at Hillcrest, a roughly 8-acre mixed-use project with 362 apartments, 30 for-rent townhomes and 19,000 square feet of retail just south of Mount Vernon Highway at Sandy Springs Circle, on track to open next summer, per Rough Draft Atlanta. As of late October the parking deck, townhomes and first multifamily levels are built, with the five-story Mount Vernon building rising above its concrete podium by year-end. For a fix-and-flipper: a walkable retail-and-residential node this close to City Springs underpins comp values for renovators in Sandy Springs' downtown quadrant — though the 392 new homes will also add fresh inventory your exit has to price against.