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Originally Posted by montydawg
Because the footprint of all the platforms and elevators and tracks are actually pretty large, and when they built the original stations, they were not built with foundations in them for high rises. Peachtree center is unique in that it was mined into the granite mantle, thus it didn’t disturb the existing high rises above. Hopefully in a few years the economics line up and they can reconstruct arts center with high rises, however I would guarantee the area with tracks and platforms won’t actually have any significant construction directly over it to avoid disturbing the station operations. In the 1970s when all this was designed, atlanta was much smaller than it is today, so it didn’t make sense to build in implements for high rise foundations into the stations.
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If I remember correctly, from looking through some of the planning documents, as well as old news paper articles, a few stations were built to support highrise construction. Lenox Station and North Avenue stations are great examples of this, since North Avenue was built while the [then known as] AT&T midtown center was being constructed; and Lenox station had Resurgens Plaza built atop it just 4 years after the opening of Lenox Station in 1984.
Many stations were built too be able to accomadate the construction of buildiings on top:
- Lenox (as mentioned above)
- Lindbergh (you can see existing pilings drilled for non existent collumns from platfom level)
- Sandy Springs
- all of the stations in the midtown tunnel
- Vine City
- Ashby
- possibly medical center, and one or two others
Most of this info was gathered thru browsing through the GSU archives
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