Union City Real Estate

Union City, Georgia

Where Union City Fits in South Fulton

Union City occupies the southwestern part of Fulton County, near Fairburn to the west and College Park and East Point to the north and east, across a land area of roughly 19 square miles. Highway 29 and Camp Creek Parkway are the main corridors through the city, both connecting to Interstate 85 within a few miles, which puts Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and downtown Atlanta within a direct drive. Reaching Union City from Tucker means crossing the entire metro area, typically along I-285 and I-85 South, a trip that spans nearly the full breadth of Metro Atlanta from one side to the other.

The city sits along the same rail and highway corridor that shaped its neighbors to the south, and its terrain rolls gently across a mix of open land and established residential streets, a pattern common throughout this part of south Fulton County.

Named for a Union, Not a Merger of Towns

Union City traces its name to the early twentieth century arrival of the National Farmers Union, an agricultural organization that established a regional presence in the area under its president, Charles Barrett. Working with local leaders, including Mayor Drewry Carmical, the community organized around that identity and was incorporated by the Georgia General Assembly in 1908. Some local accounts also connect the name to the meeting, or union, of rail lines at a junction near the original townsite. Either way, the name has stuck for well over a century, long after the Farmers Union itself moved on to other headquarters.

Parks and Community Facilities

The city's park system includes Eagles Nest Sports Complex, Mayors' Park, Ronald Bridges Park, and Veterans Park, each offering some combination of picnic pavilions, playgrounds, walking tracks, and basketball courts spread across different residential sections of the city. Union City has also added a ballfields complex on a seventeen acre site and built The Gathering Place, a community center with theaters and gymnasium space for public programming, reflecting a broader push toward newer recreational and civic amenities alongside the older neighborhood parks.

Housing and Everyday Life

Residential Union City is largely made up of brick ranch homes and traditional single-family houses built during the postwar decades, generally on generous lots with mature trees and established landscaping, alongside newer subdivisions filling in available land in recent years. That range gives buyers a choice between older streets with larger, tree-shaded yards and newer construction built to more current layouts and finishes. Shopping and everyday errands center on Highway 29 and the Camp Creek corridor, where national retailers sit alongside smaller, independently owned businesses, giving residents a fairly complete range of day-to-day needs without a long drive.

A Working Film and Logistics Hub

Where the Shannon Mall once stood, Union City is home to Atlanta Metro Studios, a purpose-built production facility with two sound stages, the larger at 80,000 square feet with forty foot clear ceiling height, that opened in 2016 and has hosted numerous film and television productions since. Large distribution and fulfillment operations in the area have also made logistics one of the more visible parts of the local economy alongside retail and production work, a combination that has reshaped several of the city's larger commercial parcels over the past decade.

• Highway 29 and Camp Creek Parkway as the main travel corridors


• Atlanta Metro Studios, a major film and television production facility


• Eagles Nest Sports Complex, Mayors' Park, Ronald Bridges Park, and Veterans Park


• The Gathering Place community center


• Convenient access to Interstate 85 and Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport

Frequently Asked Questions

What county is Union City in, and what areas border it?

Union City is in Fulton County, next to Fairburn to the west and College Park and East Point along its northern and eastern edges.

How do you get from Union City to downtown Atlanta?

Highway 29 and Camp Creek Parkway both connect to Interstate 85 nearby, which runs directly into downtown Atlanta.

What kind of housing is common in Union City?

Much of the housing stock consists of brick ranch and traditional single-family homes built in the postwar decades, with newer subdivisions added more recently.

Is Union City part of the same corridor as Fairburn and College Park?

Yes. Union City sits between Fairburn and College Park along the Highway 29 and I-85 corridor in south Fulton County.

What is Atlanta Metro Studios?

It is a large film and television production facility built on the former site of Shannon Mall, featuring two sound stages, one of them 80,000 square feet, that opened for production in 2016 and has hosted numerous film and television projects since.