Food Truck Park To Become Mixed Use Development

ATLANTA — The Atlanta Food Truck Park will become a mixed-use development to anchor a reimagined Collier Village, developers say.

Alpharetta-based commercial real estate development firm Songy Highroads purchased the 265-square foot plot of land on Howell Mill Road just off I-75 in mid-August for a project in mind that will bring a combination of retail and hospitality space along with 200 multi-family units to the area.

Food trucks will continue to operate at the popular site through the fall on weekends and the park’s modified weekday schedule as Songy Highroads, or SHR, finalizes its plans for the project, firm officials said.

Atlanta architectural firm Cooper Carry has joined the project to lend its skills to the residential design and permitting phase, and Healey Weatherholtz Properties, which owns much of the retail land in the area, has also partnered on the project.

“This acquisition represents a major step forward in the evolution of Collier Village and the Upper Westside Community Improvement District,” HWP Partner Quill O. Healey II said in a statement. “We’ve been working for 14 years to improve this stretch of Buckhead, and we’re excited to beautify the area with the first-class residential properties that SHR develops.”

Foster Durkee, acquisitions director for Songy Highroads, said the new addition will complement what is already a burgeoning and busy community.

“This might be among the last of Buckhead’s undeveloped mixed-use sites of its size,” Durkee said. “The area is already extremely high-profile, boasting tremendous energy. From a zoning perspective, it offers an ideal opportunity to blend together new residential and commercial real estate.”