Details Emerge on Ashton Woods' Plans For Glenridge Hall Site

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If all goes to plan, Ashton Woods Homes would like to construct a mixed used project containing hundreds of residential units and retail uses on land that’s formerly home to Glenridge Hall.

That’s according to a Development of Regional Impact notice submitted to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, which allows regional planning entities to review large-scale projects to determine what impact they may have on traffic, schools and infrastructure.

Notices are filed by local governments. In this case, the city of Sandy Springs filed the notice on Wednesday, April 8.

The Roswell-based company would like to develop a mixed-used project with 281 townhomes, — both attached and detached — 378 flats and 399 apartments at 6615 and 6565 Glenridge Drive. Plans also call for 36,401 square feet of commercial space. Additionally, Ashton Woods would build 460,000 of office space in two phases.

The notice also shows Ashton Woods planning to seek a rezoning and variance request with the city to accommodate the project.

The news comes on the heels of news that the mansion was demolished on Thursday, according to 11 Alive. Glenridge Hall’s owners last month obtained a demolition to permit to tear down the mansion and nine other structures on the 76-acre property.

Preservation advocates in the last few weeks have held rallies and created a petition in an effort to persuade its owners to save the house.

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Ashton Woods earlier this year announced plans to purchase the property. In addition to the purchase, the homebuilder will also sell 12 acres of that property to Mercedes-Benz, which will build its U.S. headquarters on the site.

The property, which has been on the market since July, is comprised of two parts: a 47-acre parcel north of Abernathy Road and 29 acres on the south side of Abernathy between Glenridge Drive and Barfield Road. Mercedes-Benz’s headquarters will be located at the corner of Abernathy and Barfield Roads.

According to the Georgia Trust, Thomas K. Glenn built the Glenridge estate in 1929 on 400 acres of farmland north of Atlanta.

Designed by Samuel Inman Cooper, the Tudor Revival mansion required 60 men and a year to complete. The property also included stables, barns, smith and carpentry shops and housing for workers. Thomas and his wife, Elizabeth lived at Glenridge until his death in 1946.

Beginning in the 1980s, Glenn’s granddaughter and her husband fought to preserve the house and its setting. Glenridge Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and the couple thoroughly restored the home “with the dream that it be available for the public to enjoy,” Georgia Trust said.