Construction of the Pointe Grande apartment complex on Lovett Road is progressing with most of the outer parts of the multi-building project complete and working towards an opening in the fall.

Across from the back of Statesboro Mall and beside L.A. Waters Furniture, Pointe Grand is a complex of six long, three-story buildings planned to contain 216 apartments, plus a fitness center and clubhouse area.

Occupying an 18.5-acre site, the development is hard to miss as some of the buildings are lined up almost out to Lovett. A paved central drive cuts through the middle of the buildings.

Pointe Grand is the work of Hillpointe, which has offices in Atlanta and Athens. The company describes its housing construction “focused on the development of market-rate workforce housing across the Sun Belt.”

The Statesboro complex will be Hillpointe’s 10th to open in Georgia and 21st overall across Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. Statesboro and Middleburg, Ga., are the company’s smallest, unit-wise, properties. A 348-unit complex in Spring Hill, Fla., is the largest.

The Statesboro property is not intended, at least not primarily, to attract university students. Also, “Pointe Grand” is the surname for Hillpointe’s complexes including: Pointe Grand Augusta, Pointe Grand Columbia, Pointe Grand Macon, Pointe Grand Brunswick, Pointe Grand Daytona Beach and so on.