Overton Village Town Homes

Overton Village Town Homes provided a unique challenge to the design and development team: create a pocket town home neighborhood that straddled a city boundary, with 5 units in Vestavia Hills and 13 units in Mountain Brook. This required running two parallel design approval processes, each with a unique zoning ordinance (and city with a design overlay district), but the result the creation of a cohesive boutique residential project.

Located adjacent to an established retail district, residents can walk to a bakery, grocery store or gym just steps away from their home. A neighborhood park is only a few blocks away.

The units provide large living spaces at the front of the plan with lots of natural light. The primary suite is on the main level, and two additional bedrooms and bathrooms are located on the second floor along with a flex space. Two car garages accompany each residence.

The streetscape was carefully designed to enhance the tree-lined sidewalks and minimal guest parking while remove garages from sight altogether – a rare amenity in town home developments in the area. By unifying the exterior design for the buildings, Barrett Kent was able to knit the project together with simple dramatic moves that help the streetscape transition from a neighborhood commercial village back into a single family residential neighborhood.

The project’s completion helped to complete a decades-long redevelopment of this neighborhood, and with its sidewalks the newer single family homes beyond our project site are now connected into the network of sidewalks that Mountain Brook has been constructing over the past 20 years.