About This Home:
This is a beautiful 2-story attached home in the Glenridge Commons enclave off Glenridge Drive in Sandy Springs. This home was built in 1986 and offers elegant appointments, large rooms, and a wonderfully liveable floorplan. On the main level, this home features: a grand entry foyer; large living room with fireplace and French doors to a private courtyard patio; elegant formal dining room with archways; cook's kitchen with breakfast room; separate laundry room; guest powder room; and a wonderful master suite with French doors to the courtyard patio, a custom walk-in closet, and a luxurious private master bath with separate dressing room. Upstairs there are 2 huge bedrooms, each with large walk-in closet, connected by a Jack & Jill bath with separate dressing rooms for each bedroom. There's also an oversized 4th bedroom (or great media room) with walk-in closet (stubbed for bath) and an adjoining large bonus room. This 4th bedroom could be easily converted into an 2nd full suite with private bath. This home has an attached 2-car garage plus a private driveway with room to accommodate 2 additional cars. The Glenridge Commons development features a gated swimming pool with a large pool deck and gazebo.
This home is located in the City of Sandy Springs, an affluent community on the north side of Atlanta just outside I-285 ("the Perimeter"). [More on Sandy Springs.] This area is particularly convenient to the "Pill Hill" area of the city that is home to several hospitals (Northside Hospital, St. Joseph's Hospital, and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite) as well as hundreds of medical offices and affiliated services.
This is a great area for shopping. It's exceptionally convenient to Perimeter Mall as well as City Walk Sandy Springs, and it offers easy access to the Roswell Road business district. You have easy access to many great grocery stores nearby, including: Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Publix, Kroger, CostCo, Super Target, and Wal-Mart. Other convenient shopping destinations include: Buckhead (including Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza), The Prado, Cumberland Mall, The Galleria, Vinings Jubilee, and the Marietta Square.
This area provides easy access to locations throughout the metro area because of its close proximity to I-285, GA 400 and the Dunwoody MARTA rail station. Whether you are looking for a quick commute by rail into the city or an easy way to get to Downtown sports and arts venues, or even Hartsfield-Jackson airport, you have convenient options just around the corner. This area is also home to a number of excellent recreational venues, including: the Concourse Athletic Club, Hammond Park (with a gymnasium, lighted soccer field, 4 lighted tennis courts, 2 lighted outdoor basketball courts, 2 playgrounds and picnic shelters and tables), Morgan Falls Park (home of Sandy Springs Youth Sports baseball and softball leagues); and the Sandy Springs Tennis Center (with 20 hard surface and 4 clay courts it has been named by Tennis Magazine as "one of the finest public facilities in the country"). The Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area is also nearby and offers a wide variety of outdoor activities including river rafting. Chastain Park, just a short drive away, is home to the Chastain Park Amphitheatre, an outdoor entertainment venue that hosts some of Atlanta's finest concerts. Chastain Horse Park occupies 13 acres of parkland and provides hunter/jumper riding instruction and horse boarding as well as a therapeutic riding program for the disabled. The North Fulton Golf Course is a public 18-hole course at Chastain Park.
Children in this neighborhood attend Fulton county public schools: High Point Elementary (a Georgia School of Execllence), Ridgeview Charter School (an International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program school with special programs including dual language study for all students), and Riverwood International Charter School (offering International Studies magnet and International Baccalaureate programs). The Northside of town is also home to many of Atlanta's finest private schools, including: The Epstein School, First Montessori School of Atlanta, The Galloway School, Greenfield Hebrew Academy, The Heiskell School, Holy Innocents' Episcopal School, Holy Spirit Preparatory School, The Lovett School, Marist School, Mount Vernon Presbyterian School, Pace Academy, Shreiner Academy, Trinity School, and Westminster School.
