4-story apartment infill planned on Cutshaw Ave. in Sauer’s Gardens

A rendering of the proposed building. (City documents)

The city’s Sauer’s Gardens area is set to get some new residential infill development. 

A four-story apartment building is in the works for 3925 Cutshaw Ave., according to city planning documents. 

Local real estate agents and investors Joseph Lawson and Cabell Childress are behind the project, which would rise on a grassy area adjacent to a two-story apartment building at 3917 Cutshaw Ave. that Lawson and Childress bought in 2023 for $3.1 million. 

The developers, who declined to comment at this time, submitted plans for the new building in early May. It can be built by-right, because the approximately 0.75-acre parcel is zoned TOD-1, a designation that allows for mixed-use buildings up to 12 stories. 

The development site is currently a grassy area. (Mike Platania photo)

Plans show that the new apartment building would have 31 apartments, 24 of which would be one-bedroom units. The remaining seven units would have two bedrooms. 

The 30,000-square-foot building would be built close to, but not up against, the existing 20-unit apartment building at 3917 Cutshaw, creating a walkway between the two. 

ADO is listed as the project architect, and Kine Vue Consulting is the engineer. 

Lawson and Childress were also part of the development team that converted a former Forest Hill-area nursing home into 19 apartments. The planned Cutshaw apartment building looks to be one of their first ground-up construction projects. 

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