About This Home:
This is a wonderful and exceptionally spacious 1 bedroom, 1.5 bath condo located at Brookside At Garden Hills in Atlanta's Garden Hills neighborhood. This is a super-quiet end unit with a great floorplan and amazing private outdoor living spaces. It features: a large entry foyer with coat closet; a big living room with fireplace, built-ins, surround sound, windows on 2 walls and a French door to a bonus sunroom that opens out to an enormous private deck with wooded view; a large separate dining room; a contemporary kitchen with cherry cabinets, granite countertops, and stainless steel appliances; a separate bonus room/office with full-sized laundry closet and a door out to a huge side patio. There is a big bedroom suite with corner bedroom, walk-in and reach-in closets, and a luxurious full bath with soaking tub, separate shower, and double vanity. In addition, there's a guest powder room off the living area. This unit comes with 2 assigned parking spaces -- one in the gated deck and one uncovered space -- and there is guest parking vailable as well. On-site amenities include a fitness center and an outdoor swimming pool.
Brookside in Garden Hills is located off Lindbergh Drive, which divides the Garden Hills and Peachtree Hills neighborhoods. This is a charming area just north of Midtown and just south of Buckhead. Garden Hills was developed in the 1920s and is listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. [More info.] The Lindbergh MARTA station is extremely convenient to this location, as are the adjoining Lindbergh City Center and Lindbergh Plaza developments. From here, you have easy access to I-75/85, GA 400, and I-285, and are only minutes from the shops, restaurants and nightlife of Buckhead, Midtown's arts venues, and the Downtown business district. In addition to boutique shopping all along Peachtree Road, Miami Circle and West Paces Ferry Road, there are several excellent shopping centers nearby, including Peachtree Battle Shopping Center, The Peach, and Brookwood Square. Lenox Square Mall and Phipps Plaza are also just a couple of miles away.
There are a number of parks in the vicinity, including: Peachtree Hills Park (with lighted tennis courts, a softball field, a playground, and recreation center); Frankie Allen Park (home to the Buckhead baseball league); and Sunny Brook Park and Recreation Center. Two area landmarks are the Duck Pond (a lovely oasis in Peachtree Heights Park) and the Garden Hills swimming pool (membership required). The nearby Garden Hills Community Center is also a popular spot that hosts events ranging from classes in Buddhist meditation to Cajun and Zydeco dances and a regular acoustic music concert series.
Other area parks include: Atlanta Memorial Park with the Bobby Jones Golf Course and Bitsy Grant Tennis Center (less than 2 miles west) and Chastain Park (less than 5 miles north). Chastain Park is home to the Chastain Park Amphitheatre, an outdoor entertainment venue that hosts some of Atlanta's finest concerts [Chastain Park Amphitheatre]. The Chastain Horse Park occupies 13 acres of parkland and provides riding instruction and horse boarding as well as a therapeutic riding program for the disabled.
