Buckhead Rejects Mixed-Use Development Near Lindbergh City Center

A Buckhead NPU-B meeting from 2012. Credit Maggie Lee/Patch File

Buckhead’s Neighborhood Planning Unit-B (NPU-B) has rejected a proposal from a developer to build a mixed-use project featuring an 80,000 sq. ft. grocery store and an age-restricted apartment complex adjacent to Lindbergh City Center.

According to BuckheadView, NPU-B’s Development & Transportation Committee voted 8-1 against changing the area’s Comprehensive Development Plan to allow for the construction of the development spearheaded by Jeff Fuqua and Fuqua Development.

Fuqua’s plans called for the construction of an 82,000 sq. ft. Kroger and 173 age-restricted apartments at 658 and 690 Lindbergh Dr. The project would have required a rezoning of the area from Special Public Interest District 15 Subarea 8 (Lindbergh Residential) to Subarea 3 (Piedmont Commercial). The 2011 Comprehensive Development Plan for the site mandates the site be zoned high-density residential.

Back in 2012, Fuqua wanted to build a Walmart on the site to anchor a different development, but met with resistance from neighborhood leaders who felt the plans were too “suburban” for the area. Lindbergh City Center is among the first transit-oriented projects in the city.