ATLANTA | Development Thread V - Page 422

shivtim · #**8421** Posted **Sep 16, 2013, 2:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by micropundit

The new student housing project, at 930 Spring Street, will offer 268 units, 261 parking spaces...

Fewer parking spaces than units? Hallelujah, this is a milestone for Atlanta, especially considering most of the units will have mutiple bedrooms. Now if only the proposal 2 blocks east didn't have a 1000+ space 10-story parking deck planned...

arjay57 · #**8422** Posted **Sep 16, 2013, 5:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by Eightball

Absurd: can't plant a tree within 500 ft of a billboard in GA!

http://atlanta.curbed.com/archives/2013/09/12/billboard-dilema.php

Outdoor advertising is sacred in Georgia.

Unfortunately it's not just Buckhead either. They could require the removal of the trees at Spring and 14th if they want to. They're just little baby trees right now but once they start growing they may have to go.

We've got billboards all over the place in this town.

bryantm3 · #**8423** Posted **Sep 16, 2013, 6:08 PM**

i think the point in the law is to prevent someone from like planting a tree directly in front of the billboard just to piss off the billboard owner. someone probably did this somewhere and i would reckon that's why the law was written.

i seriously doubt that this law will be enforced— it's probably just a recourse for the billboard owner if someone sticks a tree directly in front of the sign because they don't like it.

Dettmann1 · #**8424** Posted **Sep 16, 2013, 6:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by shivtim

Fewer parking spaces than units? Hallelujah, this is a milestone for Atlanta, especially considering most of the units will have mutiple bedrooms. Now if only the proposal 2 blocks east didn't have a 1000+ space 10-story parking deck planned...

There is a reason for that huge deck. I've got a couple of people I know that work in the AGL building and they have parking problems even with it being a surface lot. Even with that large amount of parking, I bet a majority of that lot will be full a lot of the time.

Sucks to have a huge deck, but its way better than the surface lot that is there.

Frankster87 · #**8425** Posted **Sep 16, 2013, 6:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by Eightball

Absurd:Separately, update on that 10th st cycletrack? Heavy usage by cyclists? Still cars parking in it?

Went passed it today and am incredibly pissed off. The bike lanes were barricaded with those large white/orange plastic walls and the lane was full of event vehicles either setting up or dismantling equipment at the park. To add insult to injury, all if the white plastic buffers were taken out.

Seriously, why can the event staff not just use the gravel parking lot by park tavern?! Or better yet, drive into the park with the rest of the service vehicles, set up and then gtfo.

briantech · #**8426** Posted **Sep 16, 2013, 6:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Frankster87

Went passed it today and am incredibly pissed off. The bike lanes were barricaded with those large white/orange plastic walls and the lane was full of event vehicles either setting up or dismantling equipment at the park. To add insult to injury, all if the white plastic buffers were taken out.

Seriously, why can the event staff not just use the gravel parking lot by park tavern?! Or better yet, drive into the park with the rest of the service vehicles, set up and then gtfo.

They eventually basically just moved the bike lane over one lane, and dropped 10th street to 2 lanes total for both directions. so 2 lanes of E/W traffic, then the bike lane, then the service vehicles parked along the curb. Seemed to work ok.

It was definitely packed, the whole area was a mad house.

sunking1056 · #**8427** Posted **Sep 16, 2013, 7:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Frankster87

Went passed it today and am incredibly pissed off. The bike lanes were barricaded with those large white/orange plastic walls and the lane was full of event vehicles either setting up or dismantling equipment at the park. To add insult to injury, all if the white plastic buffers were taken out.

Seriously, why can the event staff not just use the gravel parking lot by park tavern?! Or better yet, drive into the park with the rest of the service vehicles, set up and then gtfo.

Per ABC, the cycle track can only be blocked for events with more than 50,000 attendees (so Music Midtown this weekend, Dogwood, etc.) going forward.

As for the tree/billboard ordinance, it absolutely gets enforced all of the time. It's horrible.

echinatl · #**8428** Posted **Sep 16, 2013, 8:13 PM**

Went to the ferris wheel and had to wait an hour to get on it. First time on it at night and was impressed. Seems like it's doing really well, so well a guy that worked there told me they're planning on making it larger, and keeping it around longer than originally planned.

Drove down Spring during lunch today and they're taking down a bunch of trees where the new Ga Tech student apartment tower will be.

testarossa50 · #**8429** Posted **Sep 16, 2013, 8:55 PM**

lol @ that billboard law. Each billboard is a full 18 acres of impacted land. Apparently I live in a billboard prohibition zone, as does much of Midtown (don't forget there are billboards on Peachtree, Juniper, and in other unexpected places).

I'd love to backlash against any company that actually enforces it in a place like Midtown.

pawelra · #**8430** Posted **Sep 16, 2013, 9:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Immovable_Media

Post Alexander: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scpqyZVeLUM
Crews have begun site preparation on a 340 unit tower at the corner of Phipps Blvd and Lenox Rd in Buckhead.

Wow so Post Alexander is actually happening ??? that's a cool looking tower !!

BlueSangha · #**8431** Posted **Sep 16, 2013, 9:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by pawelra

Wow so Post Alexander is actually happening ??? that's a cool looking tower !!

bet the folks in the first phase can't wait to look out their windows into a parking deck wall...

ATL_J · #**8432** Posted **Sep 16, 2013, 10:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by BlueSangha

bet the folks in the first phase can't wait to look out their windows into a parking deck wall...

Good thing they're renting.

bigstick · #**8433** Posted **Sep 16, 2013, 10:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by BlueSangha

bet the folks in the first phase can't wait to look out their windows into a parking deck wall...

Is this 25 story's??

bigstick · #**8434** Posted **Sep 16, 2013, 10:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by Immovable_Media

Aerotropolis - Porsche HQ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMr4Pi5hOKY
Construction is well underway in Hapeville on the new North American HQ for Porsche. The foundations are being prepped for the building and ground being moved for the 1.6 mile test track. One crane up on site.

Camden Buckhead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK7GDrfuJ-I
The townhouses fronting E Andrews are taking shape. Two cranes up on site.

Crescent Terminus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKcKMPNwOxM
A section of Highland Dr is closed as crews work on the 3rd floor of building 2. Building 1 has topped out while building 3 finally rises to street level.

Buckhead Atlanta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caRrNKtzNvE
Even on a Saturday, construction is roaring ahead. The southernmost sections are beginning to take shape as the office towers to the north continue to rise.

Restoration Hardware: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lac9OVGe3oM
The ESPN Zone is gone. Make way for 6 floors of luxury home goods shopping in the form of Restoration Hardware.

Skyhouse Buckhead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfuHqb4MAwI
Situated on Stratford Dr next to the new MARTA entrance will lie SkyHouse Buckhead. The tradition continues.

Lenox Square Apartments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNN6JY2fA5M
Seen here is the site of the recently proposed 36-floor apartment tower behind Lenox Mall along East Paces Ferry Rd. If this does get built the views of Atlanta should be spectacular.

Lenox Square Renovation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0U4M2MnYT4
Renovation to the front entrance continues.

Post Alexander: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scpqyZVeLUM
Crews have begun site preparation on a 340 unit tower at the corner of Phipps Blvd and Lenox Rd in Buckhead.

Man, you are amazing, thank so much for all of your updates...

Put these are that moronic city-data site and show those idiot Charlotte people what is going on here....

scania · #**8435** Posted **Sep 16, 2013, 11:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by bigstick

Is this 25 story's??

Looks like at least 5 stories of parking.

bryantm3 · #**8436** Posted **Sep 17, 2013, 12:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by echinatl

Went to the ferris wheel and had to wait an hour to get on it. First time on it at night and was impressed. Seems like it's doing really well, so well a guy that worked there told me they're planning on making it larger, and keeping it around longer than originally planned.

how are they going to make it larger? they'd basically have to reconstruct the ferris wheel!

arjay57 · #**8437** Posted **Sep 17, 2013, 12:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by testarossa50

lol @ that billboard law. Each billboard is a full 18 acres of impacted land. Apparently I live in a billboard prohibition zone, as does much of Midtown (don't forget there are billboards on Peachtree, Juniper, and in other unexpected places).

I'd love to backlash against any company that actually enforces it in a place like Midtown.

It would be unpopular but I doubt they'd worry too much about it.

After all, an outdoor advertising company just proposed that a smokestack redone as a digital billboard will be ideal as downtown's new icon.

Libertarian · #**8438** Posted **Sep 17, 2013, 4:06 AM**

As a libertarian you may think I'm pro-billboard, but I'm not. I will vote for any governor candidate who promises to go on a vendetta against them. I would gladly participate in an organized boycott of their advertisers. They have destroyed the natural beauty of this city and state.

Alfred E Neuman · #**8439** Posted **Sep 17, 2013, 3:39 PM**

Curbed Atlanta reports that the Decatur St/Blvd rent facility will be fronted by a retail component including a renters conference center and a coffee shop. Promises to give some street appeal for the Old 4th development.

jeffschade3 · #**8440** Posted **Sep 17, 2013, 3:51 PM**

Construction is starting (possible in earnest this time) on the renovation (or complete redo) of the old building at the corner of Peachtree St. and 25th St.

It is/was an old lowrise brick building that's been abandoned for years. It was recently cleaned out and signage put up indicating it will be a new church (because we obviously need more of those in Atlanta

).

They were tearing off part of the roof the other day and now more equipment is on site, I'll try to snap some pics this afternoon (I work right around the corner).

Also, the Chipotle that is going in to the former Wolfgang Puck/Baronda/Fig Jam Cafe is in the process of building out the interior.