Magnolia Square is a Century Communities townhome community on Floyd Road in Austell, Georgia, in Cobb County. Chris Whittaker, one of our contacts here, was also on the Echo Grove project in Cumming — the same Atlanta Division team, a second community, a second pair of structures.

That pattern is the one worth paying attention to across this whole portfolio. Builders who come back bring their next community with them, and they bring the same expectations about how the work goes.

Two structures again, for the same reason

Magnolia Square got a mail center and a picnic pavilion. Like Echo Grove’s mail cover and bus stop, they were specified together and built to one finish and one profile. In a townhome community that matters more than in a subdivision — private outdoor space is limited, so the shared structures carry more of the community’s character.

Four boxes is small, and that is the point

A 4-box standard cover is a modest structure, and over-building it would have been easy and wrong. Seven and a half feet deep by eighteen feet long, on 4×6 posts, is the right scale for a townhome community’s mail center — enough roof to shelter the boxes and the person collecting from them, not so much that it dominates the streetscape.

The pictures tell the better story

Century sent photographs from two points in the build: the structures on bare graded ground with the parking lot still unmarked, and the same structures months later with sod, beds, shrubs and a finished walk. The structures did not change. Everything around them did.

Both are extruded aluminum, so nothing rusts. Both are engineered to ASCE 7-16 wind and snow loads and designed to meet ADA and IBC requirements, with the mail center laid out to the USPS Builders/Developers Guide.