Living in Hapeville: What to Explore, Things to Do

If you’re debating to live in Hapeville because you’re not sure it will offer enough things to do to keep you entertained, here are your reasons why living in Hapeville is active and fun for both families and professionals.

Not only does Hapeville offer convenience of Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, but it has small-town charm, a walkable downtown, great restaurants, and interesting experiences that stem from history and local culture.

From vibrant community events like Downtown Live Music Series and beautiful public art around downtown, to entertainment destinations like the Porshe Experience Center, this small Aerotropolis town offers more than what meets the eye.

At Solis Hapeville, our apartment residents are steps from Hapeville’s charming downtown. Living in Hapeville means a life of comfort, community, and convenience to what matters most. These are all the things you can do when you live here.

Local Entertainment and Community Events

Life in Hapeville is built around community. Every season has family-friendly events with food and music, plus performances at Academy theatre and annual holiday celebrations you’ll want to mark in your calendar.

The Jess Lucas Y-Teen Park, a huge community green space located in downtown, is home to many of the town’s events, including Dia de Muertos, Movie Nights Under the Stars, and Downtown Live Concert Series. You can find a range of events in downtown on the online community calendar: https://imagine.hapeville.org/events

Here are a few examples of Hapeville’s most popular community events:

• Dia De Muertos: Celebrate the day of the dead in a vibrant event with live music, crafts, cultural dance performances, outdoor games and themed crafts, and traditional food.
• Downtown Live Music Series: A summertime event featuring food trucks serving seafood and southern cuisine and live jazz performances from local artists.
• Seasonal Gallery Crawls: Local businesses like Corner Tavern and the Hapeville Depot Museum turn into pop-up galleries showcasing the work of local artists. The gallery crawl includes over 20 destinations along Hapeville Arts Alley and Main Street, as well as live music. It’s the perfect excuse to go into downtown, explore, and dine at downtown’s favorite restaurants afterwards.
• Juneteenth: The Juneteenth Freedom Day Celebration is big in Hapeville. The day includes educational lectures, tours, and workshops at the historical Hapeville Depot Museum, live music, games, local food vendors and market, and cultural performances that celebrate Black History.

You can regularly find local businesses hosting events anywhere from trivia to mahjong to live music performances. Hapeville is a boon for people looking to stay active within their community and families looking for easy, friendly entertainment.

Walk Downtown Hapeville and Check out Restaurants and Breweries

As a designated Main Street City, Hapeville’s government places good effort into preserving local history, building local economy, and creating a characteristic downtown district.

When you live in Hapeville, you’ll spend weekends or weeknights walking the streets of downtown, stopping into restaurants, breweries, cocktail bars, and art galleries. You’ll experience a welcoming culture, tons of small businesses to fall in love with, and an active local economy.

Hapeville is full of diverse restaurant options. Among local favorites, there is Paper Plane, a popular Thai spot with live music on Saturdays, Café Belli, an adorable café and cocktail bar selling European pastries and decorative cocktails, and Lickety Split, which serves the type of true southern comfort cuisine in a hometown atmosphere that Georgia is known for.

For a casual night out with friends or a date night, check out Corner Tavern on Jazz Sundays, or head to The Hangar Cattabrewchee Brewery for beer tasting, live music, and games.

An Iconic Hapeville Activity: Eat and Drink Here and Watch the Planes Take Off

 

Hapeville is one of the best places to live near Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, and several local restaurants offer a front-row view of planes taking off.

Go to the rooftop lounge at the Kempton Overland Hotel for panoramic views of the runway and Porsche racing track. It’s the best spot for views and a meal or drink. Plus, you’ll find an occasional band playing on the rooftop.

The rooftop of Apron also offers amazing views of the airplanes taking off, along with live music, New American food, and intimate seating.

Explore Local Art in “A Home of the Arts”

Hapeville is called “A Home of the Arts” for good reason. Walking downtown, you’ll come across public murals on staircases, building walls, and old shipping containers. These shipping containers along with some abandoned buildings have been revitalized into art galleries for independent artists.

 

Attend a seasonal downtown gallery crawl, the fall photography exhibition and market called Hapeville Shutter Fest, and #FreeArtHapevile, an art market where artists give away free artwork and sell some for purchase in a holiday-themed creative celebration.

Visit What Hapeville is Known For: Aviation & Automotive Museums

From local history to the industries that drive Hapeville and Atlanta’s economies, there are many cool museums to check out while living in Hapeville. These museums are great to explore and revisit during a free day or with family.

Delta Flight Museum

First, there is the famous Delta Flight Museum, adjacent to the corporate campus and home to historic plane collections and interactive flight simulations. Step into a plane from movie sets, take a tour of the well-known 747 and explore it through time, and understand the ins and outs of aviation terminology through educational plaques and activities.

Porsche Experience Center

 

If you’re into high-performance driving, the Porsche Track Experience gives you a private professional driving instructor and coaches you through drifting, car control, and gears your lesson to fit your experience level, whether you’re a novice or a seasoned track driver.

You can also let instructors drive you through the course or enjoy virtual rides in the Porsche Simulation Track. This unique experience is available in only 10 cities worldwide, making it a major attraction in Hapeville.

Hapeville Depot Center

 

As a southside Atlanta town and home to the largest airport in the world, Hapeville’s own history museum has lots to offer. The Hapeville Depot Museum is housed in an old train depot and offers tours, lectures, exhibits and artifacts on the civil rights movement and aviation, automotive, railroad and local community history.

Family-Friendly Town Parks

Hapeville caters well to families and those looking for a tight-knit community. Jess Lucas Y-Teen Park not only hosts familiar town events from farmers markets to festivals but also has a path that’s great for jogging or dog walking, wide open green spaces, and a kids’ playground.

Families can enjoy the downtown Splash Pad with swings and playscapes for kids to play, or take a leisurely stroll through John R. Lewis Park, where flowers and landscaped greenery sit alongside a baseball field and skate park for community sports games.

In Hapeville, walking around downtown and playing outdoors is accessible, safe, and welcoming for all.

Easy Day Trips to Atlanta

When you live in Hapeville, you are only about 20 to 30 minutes away from the heart of Atlanta. Out of the Tri-Cities, Hapeville is the easiest to travel by car into Atlanta because of its connectivity to I-75 and I-85.

Take a day trip into Midtown Atlanta on the weekends, exploring Ponce City Market, Piedmont Park, and the city’s nightlife, then come home to a quiet suburban neighborhood with small-town charm. Residents of Hapeville enjoy a family-friendly and authentically Southern atmosphere honored by local businesses and a community-centric government while being able to explore the big city nearby.

Choose Solis Hapeville as Your Hapeville Home

Solis Hapeville is a new-build luxury apartment complex in the heart of the city. Our residents enjoy a rooftop lounge, resort-style amenities and modern apartments equipped with the finest appliances and finishes.

Make Solis Hapeville your place to land. Rent a one, two, or three-bedroom apartment with us and discover our Preferred Employer Program if you are a local worker. Suburban Aerotropolis Atlanta just got better here at Solis.