ATLANTA | Development Thread V

[skapunkskatedude]

Originally Posted by echinatl

I'm super interested in any projects that increase the number of people downtown, thanks for the info. So are there students living there while they work on them or do they do construction during the summer or something?

I have no idea, but I would say no. Apparently they're adding significant green space to the area, enclosing all of the walk ways into hallways, and making the room plans more viable. It should be pretty spiffy when all is complete. You know GSU was voted the best dorms in the country (can't be bothered to fnid the link but it's on WWW.GSU.EDU)

[Chris Creech]

Originally Posted by skapunkskatedude

To change gears a little bit, i don't know if it's been reported yet, but GSU is building a new dining hall on the front of the Baymont and Windham inns (new student housing they just bought). According to an email sent out to current residents, it would be over 12,000 square feet.



I wish the parking lot would be fully gotten rid of, but it's certainly an improvement.

Gee I remember when I first visited Atlanta this was the first hotel I ever stayed in, but back then it was called the Squirrel Inn.

[GTdan]

This is not in Atlanta...but it is in the metro area. There may be a new 23-story tower across the interstate from the Mall of Georgia in Gwinnett county. What do you guys think of the design?

http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/home/he...tic_hotel_near_Mall_of_Ga_117871004.html

[gttx]

Originally Posted by GTdan

This is not in Atlanta...but it is in the metro area. There may be a new 23-story tower across the interstate from the Mall of Georgia in Gwinnett county. What does you guys think of the design?

http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/home/he...tic_hotel_near_Mall_of_Ga_117871004.html

I think I just threw up in my mouth after looking at that rendering.

This pretty much sums it up for me (from the architect):
“Our aim was to develop a revolutionary hotel that offers guests a real experience during their stay and which also contributes to Gwinnett County’s signature building concept."

A "real experience" is not something you have in a kitschy, Disney-World hotel and "New Orleans style restaurant" in the suburbs. It's something you have living in a real neighborhood in a real, working, living city.

Building this in town would at least improve that aspect of its sales pitch. Unfortunately it would also destroy Atlanta's skyline. Good thing we have Gwinnett to outsource it to.

[Chris Creech]

Originally Posted by gttx

This pretty much sums it up for me (from the architect):
“Our aim was to develop a revolutionary hotel that offers guests a real experience during their stay and which also contributes to Gwinnett County’s signature building concept."

A "real experience" is not something you have in a kitschy, Disney-World hotel and "New Orleans style restaurant" in the suburbs. It's something you have living in a real neighborhood in a real, working, living city.

So I guess this replaces the demolished "Gwinnett is Great" water tanks as the signature Gwinnett "experience".

[NYbyWAYofGA]

Originally Posted by gttx

Building this in town would at least improve that aspect of its sales pitch. Unfortunately it would also destroy Atlanta's skyline. Good thing we have Gwinnett to outsource it to.

Brilliant...lol

[simms3_redux]

800 seat restaurant. That's all that needs to be said about this project's credibility. Actually, The Eastern Gwinnett hotel market is a market I know nothing about, and I don't know much about Radisson except that they love their radical designs (which they seem to experiment with in Europe and bring over here...hence). This could work, but where is the financing coming from?? Is this going to be a Radisson flagship? 121 acres is a lot of land. Besides the hotel, massive asphault lots, and a hugely oversized New Orleans style restaurant (which I predict to close and turn into two separate restaurants at some point), what else is part of this development? The land must have been so cheap and is so far out from anything, so it makes me wonder what the developers are thinking putting something iconic there.

It could be interesting, but I make it that far out on 85 about once every 2-3 years. Maybe this will give me an excuse to go. Frankly, the one time I went to Mall of Georgia I was kind of grossed out by all of the patrons who probably never even went to college wearing UGA garb (and I went to Tech, which made it that much worse).

[Ersh]

Originally Posted by GTdan

This is not in Atlanta...but it is in the metro area. There may be a new 23-story tower across the interstate from the Mall of Georgia in Gwinnett county. What do you guys think of the design?

http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/home/he...tic_hotel_near_Mall_of_Ga_117871004.html

Wackiness! That looks like this building in Shenyang. http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=5191

[sevensixtwo]

Originally Posted by BlindFatSnake

Now that's real talk!

It's funny how people like to criticize grammar when they can't find a problem with the substance.

Do a lot of AS patrons live in AS? If so where do all those cars in the deck come from? I live in midtown and I don't go to AS because it's like high school. I think most of the people I know in Midtown don't like to go to AS.

[micropundit]

http://www.ajc.com/business/cousins-leads-team-picked-872155.html

Team seems to have a CAP focus and direction.

[A-town]

Just when things were getting back on track, smh...

[BlindFatSnake]

Maybe it's time for a REGIONAL transit system to transport people living in outlying counties to job in the core counties.

http://www.ajc.com/news/hispanics-blacks-lead-metro-875918.html

Each of the state's most populous counties -- Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Gwinnett and Fulton -- grew over the past decade, though DeKalb's growth was about 4 percent as it added just 26,000 residents.

Clayton's white population plummeted from 82,637 to 36,610, a 56 percent decline. Cobb's white population fell 7.3 percent, DeKalb's dropped 5 percent and Gwinnett's decreased by 10 percent.

Diversity has arrived in Georgia. Tomorrow the entire demographic data will be released. I believe the Asian population will also show a sizeable increase...

[micropundit]

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/2011/03/Multimodal.html

[shivtim]

Originally Posted by BlindFatSnake

Clayton's white population plummeted from 82,637 to 36,610, a 56 percent decline. Cobb's white population fell 7.3 percent, DeKalb's dropped 5 percent and Gwinnett's decreased by 10 percent.

Notice how AJC takes specific care not to mention how Fulton county is becoming more diverse by adding more white people.

[BlindFatSnake]

Originally Posted by shivtim

Notice how AJC takes specific care not to mention how Fulton county is becoming more diverse by adding more white people.

Yeah, I noticed that... Maybe we'll see the complete numbers tomorrow.

[sevensixtwo]

Milton county. Will it happen? Is it good?

[simms3_redux]

metro pop. = 5,268,860, growing only 24% over the past decade, which is 8% lower than expected.

hmmmm

[desbaratto]

Originally Posted by sevensixtwo

Milton county. Will it happen? Is it good?

Who knows? Doesn't Georgia have enough counties already?

I understand the historical reason that GA has as many counties as it does, but in this economy would it be more cost effective to consolidate counties? I would think that less government agencies would be better, but I have no idea.

[Zanarkand A East]

The Gulch transit project attracted connected firms

[GTdan]

Originally Posted by simms3_redux

metro pop. = 5,268,860, growing only 24% over the past decade, which is 8% lower than expected.

hmmmm

And the city of Atlanta grew by less than 5,000 since 2000...that just doesn't seem right.