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A 10-acre site at the northeast corner of Buford Drive and Laurel Crossing Parkway in Buford is now home to Autry at Tulip Grove, a 300-unit luxury apartment community that developer Thompson Thrift says it expects to welcome its first residents to in January 2027. The project is moving forward at a moment when apartment builders across metro Atlanta are doing the opposite, pulling back sharply as elevated vacancy and higher capital costs make new projects harder to pencil out.
That contrast is at the center of a report from CoStar, which describes developers continuing to build apartments northeast of Atlanta even as construction slows elsewhere. CoStar’s analysis points to Gwinnett’s renter demand, described as among the strongest in the region, as one reason builders are still breaking ground there while projects stall in other parts of Atlanta…