There have already been five sales in The Commons at Meadow Glen, The Knight Group's new residential neighborhood in the 168-acre Meadow Glen planned unit development in Fairburn.

Phase one of the neighborhood, on Ga. Highway 74 about three minutes south of Interstate 85, will have 68 homes with prices starting in the low $100,000s.

Fourteen different plans, some of which are award-winning designs, are being offered in The Commons. Consumers can select from ranch, two-story and split foyer plans.

The homes include three or four bedrooms and two to two and one-half baths, depending upon the plan. They will have low maintenance vinyl exteriors, and there will be a large number of interior special features, including white cabinets.

Knight Group officials said The Commons will closely resemble the company's Biscayne Pointe neighborhood in Rex, which is on pace to sell more than 100 homes this year.

Meadow Glen is only 10 minutes from Peachtree City and even closer to the Wendell Coffee Golf Center. The planned unit development also includes future areas for multi-family, commercial and industrial development. Diane Yasinski is Knight Realty's marketing representative in the south Fulton residential neighborhood, and she can be reached by calling 770-652-6637.

The sales center is open 1-6:30 p.m. every day except Friday. The Knight Group, formerly known as Knight Development, is a family business based in Jonesboro. The company had its beginning in 1973, when brothers Scott and Perry Knight starting framing houses for south metro builders.

The Knight brothers got into the home building business in the late 1970s. Perry's son Jay, who has been with the company since 1982, is now the president of The Knight Group. Scott's son Chris, who joined the company last year, is now vice president.

At the present time, the company is building approximately 250 homes a year. During the 1990s, the company has been a consistent winner of professionalism awards in the annual competition sponsored by the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association and the Greater Atlanta Sales and Marketing Council, bringing home two of these awards in 1992, five in 1995, one in 1997 and two in 1998.