Durham Lakes' builder team is composed of M. C. Custom Homes, McMillan McDonald Builders, and Olde Towne Builders. Work has begun on M. C. Custom Homes' model home and on seven spec homes priced from $249,000 to $361,000.

Located at the intersection of Virlyn B. Smith Road and U.S. Highway 29 only two miles from Exit 61 of Interstate 85, the 600-acre community is being developed by Durham Lakes Development LLC, which is owned by Killearn Inc. The community will contain 872 single family homes priced from the high $100,00s to the $400,000s, many with golf course or lake views. Estate homes in the development's country club community start in price at $250,000 for a home built on slab, and the price ranges to $450,000 for a golf course home on a basement. Golf club membership is included in the home price for purchasers in the country club community.

Seventy-four acres of the development will consist of a mix of retail and office sites, while amenities will include an 18-hole championship golf course designed by Scott Pool, which is under construction; a resort-styled pool, a cabana, four tennis courts, a basketball/sports court, and a playground.

All utilities in the development will be underground, and water and sewer services will be provided by the City of Fairburn.

Durham Lakes is the seventh golf course community for Killearn, which was founded in 1964 in Tallahassee, Fla., with the idea of creating communities catering to the lifestyles of the upwardly-mobile middle class in Florida's capital city. Among the Florida projects for the company were two 4,000-acre master planned communities, Killearn Estates and Killearn Lakes Plantation, which includes Golden Eagle Country Club.

Since entering the Georgia market and relocating its headquarters to the Eagle's Landing area of Stockbridge in the late 1980s, the company has developed four other Georgia golf club communities, including Eagle's Landing in Stockbridge, Eagle's Brooke in Locust Grove, and Waterfall Country Club at Lake Burton and Kingwood Golf Club and Resort in the North Georgia mountains near Clayton.

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