Atlanta Project Thread IV

[micropundit]

Capital improvements planned for the Atlanta History Museum will affect over 37,000 square feet of the building, including the creation of a new West Paces Ferry Road entrance façade and enlarged 5,300-square-foot atrium, an updating of the museum’s public spaces and the addition of new connections within the building.“We want to have a face on West Paces Ferry that reads that we’re running a museum,” said Sheffield Hale, president and CEO of the History Center. “It’s not apparent what’s here now. We want it to (convey), ‘Open all the time — public space.’”

The transformation will be paid for with $21.1 million raised in a just-completed capital campaign, easily the largest in the august institution’s 88-year history.Other aspects will include the shifting of the front entrance so that it leads straight into the corridor housing most of the museum’s permanent exhibits. Their sheet-rocked entry walls will be opened up with floor-to-ceiling glass. bookstore-bistro, also glass-fronted, will be added beside the main entrance, accessible without admission. And the lobby/atrium will be expanded to 5,300 square feet to better accommodate center and private functions.
http://www.myajc.com/news/entertainment/...-transfor/nf434/#f2741304.3291488.735374

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by micropundit

The transformation will be paid for with $21.1 million raised in a just-completed capital campaign, easily the largest in the august institution’s 88-year history.Other aspects will include the shifting of the front entrance so that it leads straight into the corridor housing most of the museum’s permanent exhibits. Their sheet-rocked entry walls will be opened up with floor-to-ceiling glass. bookstore-bistro, also glass-fronted, will be added beside the main entrance, accessible without admission. And the lobby/atrium will be expanded to 5,300 square feet to better accommodate center and private functions.
http://www.myajc.com/news/entertainment/...-transfor/nf434/#f2741304.3291488.735374

Gee, that's nice! The History Center is one of the city's great treasures.

[smArTaLlone]

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/real_...00-apartments-by-centennial-olympic.html

After a series of new projects in Buckhead and Midtown, Atlanta’s intown apartment boom is finally expanding into downtown.

More than 800 residential units have been planned there in recent months — the most apartment activity downtown has seen in nearly a decade.

The latest proposal is from Post Properties Inc., which presented its plans for Centennial Park Apartments this week to downtown's Development Review Committee. The 407-unit project would sit on land Post already owns, a site bounded by Centennial Olympic Park Drive and Baker, Williams and Simpson streets.
The developer wants the downtown project to echo some of its Midtown projects, such as Post Parkside. It may also resemble another Midtown apartment building called Baltimore Row.

[RocketSurgeon]

I think One Museum Place is imminent. There are signs for it now:



They also have a Web site with some detailed images. I'll post a couple here. Check out the site for details on the common areas and facade materials (it looks promising).

Web site: http://www.ompatlanta.com





Judging by the street lamps in the elevation it looks like this will be about the same height as MODA and the office building to the south, so it should fit in nicely.

[smArTaLlone]

Originally Posted by RocketSurgeon

I think One Museum Place is imminent. There are signs for it now:

They also have a Web site with some detailed images. I'll post a couple here. Check out the site for details on the common areas and facade materials (it looks promising).

Web site: http://www.ompatlanta.com


Judging by the street lamps in the elevation it looks like this will be about the same height as MODA and the office building to the south, so it should fit in nicely.

It probably just means that they've started marketing the condos in earnest. We'll see.

BTW nice Midtown aerial on that website.

[atlantaguy]

^VERY nice aerial.

I was totally bummed out along with everyone else when the original design evaporated. But, I'll take this. It's timeless and urbane, and it's really growing on me.

[Tuckerman]

Still disappointing that it is not a high rise, but the elevation looks promising and the quality level befitting the site.

[smArTaLlone]

I'm fine with the height. I'm just disappointed that there is no active use on the block such as the art gallery that was a part of the previous proposal.

[smArTaLlone]

Elan Westside seems to be taking forever to finish


Walton Westside: Not bad except for the exposed parking.



College HOF I think this looks nice and I like the terra cotta. My only quibble is the blank wall under the parking deck. It seems like a bit of a waste in such a busy tourist corridor.




One12 Courtland



755 North: An all (or mostly) brick facade is possible



Amli Ponce Park



NCCHR




131 Ponce




Dueling student towers

[Buck]

Wow, awesome updates. I think Elan Westside looks sharp for the area, but that huge power pole at the corner just kills me.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by Buck

I think Elan Westside looks sharp for the area, but that huge power pole at the corner just kills me.

I hear that.

I guess there's nothing to be done about the big metal poles but I wish we could at least get the wooden poles around town straightened up. Some of those things are so crooked they make my head hurt.

[Pemgin]

One of the first things that caught my eye in that aerial shot is the huge parking lot right in the middle where 33 Peachtree Place is going. Wasn't that supposed to break ground this month?

[smArTaLlone]

Originally Posted by Pemgin

One of the first things that caught my eye in that aerial shot is the huge parking lot right in the middle where 33 Peachtree Place is going. Wasn't that supposed to break ground this month?

I noticed that too. It looks huge. Yes 33 Peachtree Place was rumored to start this month. I would expect it to start soon.

[ATLSkyPalaceOwner]

Originally Posted by smArTaLlone

I noticed that too. It looks huge. Yes 33 Peachtree Place was rumored to start this month. I would expect it to start soon.

There have been tree removal signs there forever now but it doesn't look like any trees have been removed.

I don't know much about this stuff but does building construction generally start in the summer, or does the season not matter so much here because it never gets really too cold?

[ATLSkyPalaceOwner]

Originally Posted by smArTaLlone

It probably just means that they've started marketing the condos in earnest. We'll see.

BTW nice Midtown aerial on that website.

So I've only been here a couple of years and I hope someone can enlighten me. How did it come about that almost all of the high rise activity came about to the east of the freeway but there's comparatively little to the west of the freeway?

[ATLSkyPalaceOwner]

Originally Posted by smArTaLlone

Elan Westside seems to be taking
Dueling student towers

I didn't hear what is happening at the site south of the main site. Is there going to be 2 high rises as a part of this project? I somehow missed this.

[teejay]

Originally Posted by ATLSkyPalaceOwner

So I've only been here a couple of years and I hope someone can enlighten me. How did it come about that almost all of the high rise activity came about to the east of the freeway but there's comparatively little to the west of the freeway?

West of the freeway is largely Georgia Tech's campus.

[RocketSurgeon]

Originally Posted by ATLSkyPalaceOwner

I didn't hear what is happening at the site south of the main site. Is there going to be 2 high rises as a part of this project? I somehow missed this.

There are two separate projects next to each other, University House and Centergy North (or maybe Centergy Two, I've seen it called both).

This is a great place to go if you ever want to know what's happening in a particular area:

http://devmap.io/cities/atlanta/developments

[smArTaLlone]

Originally Posted by ATLSkyPalaceOwner

I didn't hear what is happening at the site south of the main site. Is there going to be 2 high rises as a part of this project? I somehow missed this.

In addition to whats already been said. The first page of the project list thread is up to date with all major projects and construction in the city.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=209829

[ATL_J]

Originally Posted by ATLSkyPalaceOwner

So I've only been here a couple of years and I hope someone can enlighten me. How did it come about that almost all of the high rise activity came about to the east of the freeway but there's comparatively little to the west of the freeway?

I suppose you mean north of North Avenue? If we're being precise, downtown and all its high rises are west of The Connector. Starting with North Avenue and to the west of The Connector, there is Georgia Tech which limits development and north of that is Turner's campus. Around Turner's Campus is single family neighborhoods, but you do get development west of The Connector at Atlantic Station.

You would also have to consider that side of the highway has always been "rougher" with projects just south of Georgia Tech being demolished for the Olympics and notorious neighborhoods like Vine City and English Avenue being relatively close by.

Another major consideration is there is still a lot of open space in Atlanta and, relatively, it's cheap to build on. There's no reason to develop tall buildings in (relatively) undesirable areas when you have concentrations, and desirable, areas like Midtown and Buckhead. The Westside or West Midtown or whatever you want to call it is relatively new.