Fayetteville’s 38-acre Town Center project on Grady Avenue now awaits state review

Fayetteville’s City Council is about to pull off what some officials in Peachtree City can only dream about: their own urban city center behind the current City Hall. The city-owned 38 acres fronts Grady Avenue and touches the southwest corner of City Center Park (adjacent to Walton Fayetteville).

Fayetteville has paid $27,500 to NV5 Engineers and Consultants for a traffic study and for preparation checklist that has been submitted to the Georgia Regional Transportation Agency and the Atlanta Regional Commission.

That was necessary to get agency approvals to move ahead with “the proposed mixed-use development comprised of retail, village market, office, and various residential uses located along Grady Avenue in Fayetteville,” according to publicly available city documents.

City officials have retained Nelson Worldwide, an architecture and design firm to come up with what goes on the parcel the city bought in 2023 along Grady Avenue. To see what the city is proposing, click here.

Here’s what the proposal looks like at this point:

• 700 apartment units

• 48 townhomes

• 39 single-family homes

• 12,000 square-foot market or grocery store

• 120 room hotel

• 34,000 sq. ft. of retail space

• 14,000 sq. ft. of loft offices

And the proposed development lies on the city’s wholly-owned property. This is before it ever gets to the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission and its City Council — the council that approved the purchase in the first place.

If it comes to fruition — and there is no other local government entity to stop it — it will link up with the City Center Park next to City Hall, completed in 2021. That would put residents and visitors within walking distance of new and current retail businesses and restaurants in both the new and existing downtown.

First phase might be ready by 2027 and the entire project completed by 2030, the city’s filing said.

Who would provide the money to build it all? And who gets any other revenue generated by the development and sale of the property? That’s unknown at this point.

So after all the so far unrealized talk in Peachtree City about urbanization and live-work multi-story developments, Fayetteville is moving ahead with the Fayetteville City Council’s own vision of what those words mean.