ATLANTA | Development Thread V

[jnihiser]

http://nreionline.com/nreiwire/press-release-more-redevelopment-planned-atlantas-west-midtown

[Zanarkand A East]

Mayor Reed says new Atlanta Falcons Stadium will be settled soon (11 Alive)

5-7 days, maybe?

[ChrisInmanPark]

Originally Posted by jnihiser

http://nreionline.com/nreiwire/press-release-more-redevelopment-planned-atlantas-west-midtown

They could really benefit from creating a new street between 14th and 11th, or extending Ethel St and Howell Mill. That is one giant supper block and West Midtown could really use some easing of traffic. Creating more of a grid would really help.

[ericdeatl]

Tonight at 5:30 pm is the Midtown SPI-16 & SPI-17 Development Review Committee Meeting, held at the 999 Peachtree Street building's 5th Floor Conference Center.

Is anyone planning to attend that could report on the new projects being presented there?:

http://www.midtownatl.com/_files/docs/agenda-09-10-13.pdf

These include a 19-storey mixed-use development across from the Midtown MARTA station (on the AGL parking lot) and a medical office high-rise on West Peachtree near 14th (near SkyHouse).

I wish I could attend myself, but cannot due to work. Otherwise I would provide a report.

It would also be interesting to ask the committee about the current status of previously-announced projects such as the two student housing developments along West Peachtree St. and the GA Tech High Technology Computing center for which demolition is currently taking place on the back of the Crum & Forster building.

[AtlantaMustang]

Originally Posted by ericdeatl

These include a 19-storey mixed-use development across from the Midtown MARTA station (on the AGL parking lot)

Interesting, looks like the RJT+R is the architect, so we may be getting something along the same design guidelines as 12th and Midtown, hopefully. A lot better than the recent Skyhouses going up. Can't wait to see what's planned. Also 19 floors, not too shabby.

[clexmond]

Originally Posted by ericdeatl

Tonight at 5:30 pm is the Midtown SPI-16 & SPI-17 Development Review Committee Meeting, held at the 999 Peachtree Street building's 5th Floor Conference Center.

Is anyone planning to attend that could report on the new projects being presented there?:

http://www.midtownatl.com/_files/docs/agenda-09-10-13.pdf

These include a 19-storey mixed-use development across from the Midtown MARTA station (on the AGL parking lot) and a medical office high-rise on West Peachtree near 14th (near SkyHouse).

I wish I could attend myself, but cannot due to work. Otherwise I would provide a report.

It would also be interesting to ask the committee about the current status of previously-announced projects such as the two student housing developments along West Peachtree St. and the GA Tech High Technology Computing center for which demolition is currently taking place on the back of the Crum & Forster building.

I am going to try to make it. As for asking them questions, good luck with that. They get a little uppity about it and even have an intro speech telling the audience that while the meeting is open to the public it does not include public interaction.

[Alfred E Neuman]

Ga State 200k sf Law Building groundbreaking tomorrow.

[micropundit]

http://atlanta.curbed.com/archives/2013/...lding-to-break-ground-this-week.php#more

[boomtown]

This today from the ABC.

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/real_talk/2013/09/wood-partners-plans-19-story-tower-in.html

[kamden99]

Originally Posted by boomtown

This today from the ABC.

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/real_talk/2013/09/wood-partners-plans-19-story-tower-in.html

This is GREAT news for the neighborhood. I can't tell from the rendering however which street the 19-story tower will be on. Will it be on the 8th Street side - between Cypress and West Peachtree?

[micropundit]

Courtesy of SmARTalone

[sunking1056]

Originally Posted by boomtown

This today from the ABC.

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/real_talk/2013/09/wood-partners-plans-19-story-tower-in.html

It's not bad but feels a bit underwhelming for a parcel that size, in that location, adjacent to a train station.

[cabasse]

^ 12 stories of residential on top of a gargantual 5/7 floor parking deck. i guess it's better than a surface lot next to a marta station. if they could just mask the shorter portion of the deck with ivy or something...

[cokezero]

Originally Posted by cabasse

^ 12 stories of residential on top of a gargantual 5/7 floor parking deck. i guess it's better than a surface lot next to a marta station. if they could just mask the shorter portion of the deck with ivy or something...

For as much parking as they're going to have to provide, that deck looks rather underwhelming to me compared to a Skyhouse deck. From the rendering, it looks like they're going to be parking a 20 story office building and a 19 story apartment building in a deck that seems less obtrusive than either of Novare's Midtown decks built for half as many cars. Yikes, I'm truly going to get kicked off of here - first sticking up for Walmart and now sticking up for a parking deck.

Yes, that probably isn't the best concept we could get for such a huge blank canvas right in the middle of Midtown, but they are somewhat limited by the underground MARTA station with what can be built there.

My guess is that the parking deck behind the apartment tower will be built first so that the office building's employees will have a place to park again as soon as possible.

[cokezero]

Originally Posted by cokezero

For as much parking as they're going to have to provide, that deck looks rather underwhelming to me compared to a Skyhouse deck. From the rendering, it looks like they're going to be parking a 20 story office building and a 19 story apartment building in a deck that seems less obtrusive than either of Novare's Midtown decks built for half as many cars. Yikes, I'm truly going to get kicked off of here - first sticking up for Walmart and now sticking up for a parking deck.

Yes, that probably isn't the best concept we could get for such a huge blank canvas right in the middle of Midtown, but they are somewhat limited by the underground MARTA station with what can be built there.

My guess is that the parking deck behind the apartment tower will be built first so that the office building's employees will have a place to park again as soon as possible.

Oh, and don't get me wrong. I feel that this proposal could be improved significantly. For starters, 20k SF of retail space spread across the 4 road frontages of an entire city block leads me to believe that there will be a huge segment of road frontage that is dead space. There's no possible way the entire city block can be covered with active uses on the entire ground floor with only 20k SF of retail. The thing I fear is that Cypress will be the designated dead zone on this project. That newly created permanent dead zone combined with the dead zone caused by the cell tower behind Peachtree Lofts will absolutely destroy Cypress and lead to it forever remaining the back door to every other building in that area of Midtown - similar to Spring Street in most areas of Midtown. It's a shame too because Cypress has so much potential when you look at what Crescent has become over the last two decades.

[clexmond]

Originally Posted by micropundit

Courtesy of SmARTalone

I can shed some more light on this now that there's an image to go along with my descriptions. This is the elevation looking east from W. Peachtree. The developer mentioned that the left half of the deck would be built first to allow for AGL employees to move from the surface lot. Then the rest of the project would be completed.

Also there was a concern about the retail / Cypress being a dead zone. The Cypress streetscape is 100% fronted by ground floor apartments, mostly with stoops, and other landscaping. So definitely less dead than the cell tower and the back of Peachtree Lofts.

[Nanosolar]

Originally Posted by micropundit

Courtesy of SmARTalone

And Atlanta continues to disapoint... "City in the Trees... But Full of Parking Decks"

[Zanarkand A East]

2 churches in way of Falcons stadium to vote whether to go (Atlanta Business Chronicle)

Brothers and Sisters in Christ, please vote "NO"

[UVAsuperman]

Regarding 33 Peachtree Place, there is also a very significant grade rise along Cypress and 8th (while the West Peachtree and Peachtree Place frontage is flat). It will be interesting to see how the developers use the grade to their advantage. The site could easily hold a 6+ story parking deck that is at grade at the corner of Cypress and 8th (so, essentially "underground") but that towers above Peachtree Place like a 6 story parking deck. It's a good, large site, with a lot of potential. Hopefully Wood Partners can put something worthy there that is a bit more than that one elevation shows.

[Immovable_Media]

Overton Rise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbXbY4bBSdU
The residential component of Hines' "Overton Park" is under construction at the corner of Akers Mill Rd and Cumberland Pkwy, just southeast of the Cobb Cloverleaf.

Two Overton Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PeF94UOiyI
Not sure what the official word on this 17 floor office tower is. Right now the site is being used as a rock crushing/dirt collection/equipment lot for Overton Rise, right next door. Anyone have any info?

Vallate Apartments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChYj-owVGF0
Across the street from the Northside Branch of the FC Public Library (3295 Northside Pkwy) developers Ellinwood + Machado have begun work on two buildings: A 12 story concrete high rise connected to a 5 story wood framed mid rise; Vallate Apartments.