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Originally Posted by RocketSurgeon
Big projects like that don't change the area anywhere near as much as infill. Put that many residences on a single lot and you have a skyline piece for Buckhead and Vinings residents to look at, but put them on four or five lots spread across Midtown and you've given the whole neighborhood more pedestrian activity and better access to retail.
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The thing is, the project not only include 1350 residential units, but it also includes hotel rooms, 95,000 square feet of retail and infill a massive hole in the urban fabric in that area. we're not talking about 1 skyscraper infilling a small space in the urban fabric. We're talking 4 acres of land just sitting there in prime real estate.
That will heavily increase the pedestrian activity in that street, it's located right next to the MARTA station and there are like 4 projects U/C or in proposal within a 1 block radius to the proposal.
This project is like 5 random smaller projects put together and would have an enormous impact in that part of Midtown. 1350 residential units on 4 acres comes out to 325 units per acre which means over 400 people per acre. That's higher than peak Barcelona and if I can recall, peak Manhattan which is somewhere around 300 people per acre in the Upper Eastside.
It's time for Atlanta to actually build a skyscraper worth mentioning this decade. The quality is far higher than most of these infill projects. Like I said, we're not taking about 1 random skyscraper that doesn't have that much street presence. We're talking about 3 skyscrapers all over 500 feet which contains 1350 residential units, 270 hotel rooms, and 95,000 square feet of retail. It's nice to look at from afar, substantially increases density in the neighborhood around it, it adds more temporarily density in visitors/tourists, and will begin to create a canyon effect on 14th street.
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