Brookhaven's summer feels different this year, and the reason is not on Dresden. It is a mile southwest, in the pocket around Lake Hearn Drive and the North Druid Hills trailhead, where a cafe is finishing buildout, a bagel shop is under construction next door, and a $13.6 million federal award has finally set a clock on a trail extension residents have watched inch forward for seven years. Taken separately, these are three different news items. Taken together, they describe a single shift.
The parts of Brookhaven residents will actually walk this summer are consolidating along the Peachtree Creek Greenway corridor and the AMLI development on Lake Hearn Drive. The Dresden strip is not going anywhere, but for the first time it is not the only center of gravity.
The Lake Hearn pocket picks up two neighbors
The clearest signal is the mixed-use ground floor at AMLI Brookhaven, 1420 Lake Hearn Dr. NE.
