Student Housing Complex Under Construction On Macon Highway Just Inside County

Athens student housing is spilling over into Oconee County with the construction of the high-density Athens Ridge residential complex just inside the county line on old Macon Highway at White Oak Road.

Zoned for multi-family residential development, Athens Ridge is labeled a townhome and residential condominium development on county site development plans. Those plans show 190 dwelling units on just more than 35 acres of land on McNutt Creek just before it reaches the Middle Oconee River.

The development is being marketed on Facebook as “luxury student living,” with bedrooms renting from $420 to $499 per month, a shuttle to the University of Georgia, tanning spa, fitness center, game room, club house, hot tubs, and a large outdoor pool and pool deck.

Whitworth Land Corporation, which has released plans for a retail development across Macon Highway from Athens Ridge, says the residential development will have 784 beds for what it calls a “student townhome development.”

For more on the student housing complex, once called, ironically, Puritan Place, and on the proposed retail development across from it, go to Oconee County Observations.