1072 West Peachtree | 61 FLR | 733 feet - Page 34

zigzag · #**661** Posted **Aug 10, 2025, 12:21 PM**

How many more floors to go to be completed?

MarketsWork · #**662** Posted **Aug 10, 2025, 2:33 PM**

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How many more floors to go to be completed?

My guess is 13 to 14 more floors.

Julien · #**663** Posted **Aug 10, 2025, 7:16 PM**

bryantm3 · #**664** Posted **Aug 11, 2025, 1:01 AM**

Thanks for the photos, Julien!

I'm glad the deck is shielded from the West Peachtree side. Those blank walls on the south and west sides are looking pretty ugly. I hope there's adjacent development in the pipeline that'll hide those soon. Maybe an L-shaped mid-rise that is just tall enough to hide that deck without impeding the views from the new tower.

A related question: does anyone know if the Midtown DRC has any plans to extend 11th street to Williams, like they are now doing with 15th?

I would hope that any builder that plans to tackle that spot would get direction from the DRC to leave space for that to happen.

MarketsWork · #**665** Posted **Aug 11, 2025, 1:52 AM**

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Those blank walls on the south and west sides are looking pretty ugly. I hope there's adjacent development in the pipeline that'll hide those soon.

Those blank walls will disappear in time as the adjacent lots are developed with zero-lot-line towers. This shows how far along Atlanta has come as once-plentiful land is becoming scarce.

bryantm3 · #**666** Posted **Aug 11, 2025, 4:24 AM**

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Those blank walls will disappear in time as the adjacent lots are developed with zero-lot-line towers. This shows how far along Atlanta has come as once-plentiful land is becoming scarce.

Thanks, but well aware that was the intention. The owners of the new tower will probably want to keep the southward view to keep the property value up, so that's why I suggested an L-shaped mid-rise surrounding the building; just tall enough to cover up those blank walls, but short enough not to obscure the new tower. And hopefully narrow enough on the south side that 11th street can get an extension through there.

Despite its height, this is not one of my favorite projects. For such a tall building, the tower is pretty plain. But I am encouraged by the fact that the deck does not front West Peachtree as I thought it would. I wish they'd done the same treatment for the 12th street side.

ArchKid · #**667** Posted **Aug 11, 2025, 7:44 AM**

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Thanks, but well aware that was the intention. The owners of the new tower will probably want to keep the southward view to keep the property value up, so that's why I suggested an L-shaped mid-rise surrounding the building; just tall enough to cover up those blank walls, but short enough not to obscure the new tower. And hopefully narrow enough on the south side that 11th street can get an extension through there.

Despite its height, this is not one of my favorite projects. For such a tall building, the tower is pretty plain. But I am encouraged by the fact that the deck does not front West Peachtree as I thought it would. I wish they'd done the same treatment for the 12th street side.

After seeing the high-rises in Tokyo, Singapore, and New York, and even those in Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong, I can’t help but feel a deep sense of sadness when I look at the latest high-rises built in Atlanta, silently wondering to myself: “What on earth is this design supposed to be?!” I don’t like this outdated, clumsy, and bulky design.

bryantm3 · #**668** Posted **Aug 11, 2025, 9:13 AM**

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After seeing the high-rises in Tokyo, Singapore, and New York, and even those in Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong, I can’t help but feel a deep sense of sadness when I look at the latest high-rises built in Atlanta, silently wondering to myself: “What on earth is this design supposed to be?!” I don’t like this outdated, clumsy, and bulky design.

It's short term thinking, versus long term thinking, combined with 45 years of Reaganomics. Nowadays, banks aren't local and they're not looking to invest in bettering local communities over the long term. They're crunching numbers and determing what their short term return on investment is.

That means whatever we get is value-engineered and made from imported, cheaply interchangable parts. We have a lot of talented craftspeople in our metro who would love to work on projects like this, but it makes more sense on paper to outsource everything. So everywhere gets the same stuff, copy-pasted. It is sad indeed.

The work the South Downtown team is doing is the best thing that's going on right now for the city long-term, despite their limited scope. They have had to do *a lot* of extra work for the banks to get the financing to make that happen.

Julien · #**669** Posted **Aug 11, 2025, 11:14 AM**

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A related question: does anyone know if the Midtown DRC has any plans to extend 11th street to Williams, like they are now doing with 15th?

I would hope that any builder that plans to tackle that spot would get direction from the DRC to leave space for that to happen.

No way to reach William's St without razing the TBS building AND adding a curve.

bryantm3 · #**670** Posted **Aug 11, 2025, 3:48 PM**

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No way to reach William's St without razing the TBS building AND adding a curve.

I see. Maybe just take it to Spring, then.

megalopolis · #**671** Posted **Aug 12, 2025, 12:56 PM**

12th Street to Williams will fully re-open when 1072 West Peachtree is done, so I don't know if an 11th Street extension is necessary, but the 15th Street extension can't come soon enough!

FYI, it looks like the GA Tech Foundation owns the building and parking lot that would be necessary to demolish in order to extend 11th Street to Spring Street. That's a valuable piece of land!

anxietyrocks · #**672** Posted **Aug 13, 2025, 4:42 AM**

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After seeing the high-rises in Tokyo, Singapore, and New York, and even those in Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong, I can’t help but feel a deep sense of sadness when I look at the latest high-rises built in Atlanta, silently wondering to myself: “What on earth is this design supposed to be?!” I don’t like this outdated, clumsy, and bulky design.

This tower is so bad. The height is the only thing notable about it, Atlanta has been spammed with 300-450 ft filler towers for years now so something like a 700+ footer is big here. The 12 stories of parking podium is laughably bad. The tower portion itself is...decent. But the podium ruins it.

Definitely jealous of what other cities are getting, but Atlanta CAN build good architecture. Look at the recent builds in O4W on the eastside beltline and West Midtown. The Overline looks like the new builds in London and Williamsburg, very nice, and obviously the high prices and location reflect that. Just need that in Midtown

Terminus · #**673** Posted **Aug 13, 2025, 12:58 PM**

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This tower is so bad. The height is the only thing notable about it, Atlanta has been spammed with 300-450 ft filler towers for years now so something like a 700+ footer is big here. The 12 stories of parking podium is laughably bad. The tower portion itself is...decent. But the podium ruins it.

Definitely jealous of what other cities are getting, but Atlanta CAN build good architecture. Look at the recent builds in O4W on the eastside beltline and West Midtown. The Overline looks like the new builds in London and Williamsburg, very nice, and obviously the high prices and location reflect that. Just need that in Midtown

As others have noted, land is too expensive in Midtown for anything quality. In a market where rents are generally fixed, the only way a developer can pay higher land costs is by cutting costs elsewhere. If developers could make more money with quality, they would try.

joecool · #**674** Posted **Aug 13, 2025, 5:01 PM**

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As others have noted, land is too expensive in Midtown for anything quality. In a market where rents are generally fixed, the only way a developer can pay higher land costs is by cutting costs elsewhere. If developers could make more money with quality, they would try.

Is brick really that expensive? I wish low-rise buildings would use brick for their façades. That wouldn't be much more expensive, would it? A solid façade is much more sleek. The multi-facade design is so tacky.

For the taller high-rises, maybe a solid glass façade would look sleeker. That wouldn't cost much more, if at all, right?

I just don't understand this trend of the multi façade designs. It's awful...