ATLANTA | Development Thread V - Page 852

AtlantaMustang · #**17021** Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 4:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by cabasse

i'm trying to do the same from dallas, but it's not happening. hell i'm flying back tomorrow for valentine's day, lol.

Exact opposite here. I have all the webcam links saved and am trying to keep up with everything from Chicago. It's pretty amazing to walk around midtown every time I come home though. The difference is noticeable even every few months.

micropundit · #**17022** Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 8:32 PM**

The transformation of the run-down Clermont Hotel into a 94-room boutique hotel is finally set to kick off.Financing for the project closed Dec. 30, and renovation work should start in March. Now, the goal is to complete renovations within 12 months and reopen the hotel around March 2017.
It will have a “layered” design, he said, meaning each area will feel as it evolved over time. For example, the bar will draw inspiration from an interior in Cuba getting remade during the 1970s. The lobby and rooms will start with finishes from the 1920s and layer in paint, carpet and furniture from decades that followed.
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/real_...el-renovation-finally-ready-to-move.html

Street Advocate · #**17023** Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 8:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by micropundit

The transformation of the run-down Clermont Hotel into a 94-room boutique hotel is finally set to kick off

Are they affecting the lounge at all?

arctk2014 · #**17024** Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 9:10 PM**

https://www.bisnow.com/atlanta/news/hotel/what-new-hilton-brand-is-headed-downtown-55761

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Hilton is looking to bring its newest brand, a hyper-local boutique that will even loan out bicycles to guests, to Downtown Atlanta. Bisnow chatted with one of the key players working on the plan.

Hilton Canopy is in advanced talks to be the second flag in Legacy Ventures' dual-flagged Marietta Street hotel in the Luckie-Marietta District, which includes Hilton Worldwide's Homewood Suites. Legacy's captain, David Marvin (here with his kids), tells us the $80M, 350-key project attached to the parking deck at 311 Marietta will have a lot of cool bells and whistles.

A lifestyle-themed boutique, each location of Canopy by Hilton will be heavily influenced by the local culture, with localized in-room amenities. It will also emphasize healthy breakfasts, and offer bike rentals, so guests can ride around the local environs.

Canopy, launched by Hilton in 2013, plans to open its first property this year in Iceland (here) and will roll out hotels in Charlotte, Bethesda, Oklahoma City and West Palm Beach. David says while plans for a dual-branded hotel have long been in gestation for the site, skyrocketing construction costs put that on hold. He says Legacy now hopes to break ground this year after assurances of a capital infusion from an unnamed life company. “We are very close,” he says.

Atlanta3000 · #**17025** Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 9:12 PM**

Duplicate story

arctk2014 · #**17026** Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 9:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Atlanta3000

Duplicate story

I just realized that it was published in the ABC last fall regarding the brand announcement - the only thing new is they're closer to securing financing....so they say

Atlanta3000 · #**17027** Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 9:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by arctk2014

I just realized that it was published in the ABC last fall regarding the brand announcement - the only thing new is they're closer to securing financing....so they say

Bisnow reporting is not always current or correct generally. I am confused about this pic posted on the same story. It appears to be a different project.

alco89 · #**17028** Posted **Feb 10, 2016, 11:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Atlanta3000

Bisnow reporting is not always current or correct generally. I am confused about this pic posted on the same story. It appears to be a different project.

That's the one opening in Iceland, no?

(EDIT: It is. http://canopy3.hilton.com/en/index.html)

And though we've always known it was supposed to be a Hilton hotel, it was originally going to be a Homewood Suites and not this new "Canopy" concept. It makes sense that we're just now hearing this update since the article says it's been in "gestation" for a long time.

arctk2014 · #**17029** Posted **Feb 11, 2016, 12:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by alco89

That's the one opening in Iceland, no?

(EDIT: It is. http://canopy3.hilton.com/en/index.html)

And though we've always known it was supposed to be a Hilton hotel, it was originally going to be a Homewood Suites and not this new "Canopy" concept. It makes sense that we're just now hearing this update since the article says it's been in "gestation" for a long time.

It's still going to be a Homewood Suites as well - it's a dual brand hotel with the Canopy brand on the top levels and the Homewood Suites on the lower levels - You can see how the fenestration changes differentiate the brands in the rough draft rendering.

sbrptree · #**17030** Posted **Feb 11, 2016, 2:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

The DRC agenda wasn't on the website yet, to whomever has seen it does it say for the Campanile if it is just the 6 floors added to the office building or will it include the other towers in this image [it would go a big way in filling in that area/plus would be cool to see a tower built on an existing deck]:

Here is the summary of the proposal:

http://www.midtownatl.com/about/programs...review-committee/february-2016-drc-recap

1lifealex · #**17031** Posted **Feb 11, 2016, 6:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by arctk2014

https://www.bisnow.com/atlanta/news/hotel/what-new-hilton-brand-is-headed-downtown-55761

I noticed that the rendering looks slightly different and has 20 floors instead of 19

alco89 · #**17032** Posted **Feb 11, 2016, 11:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by arctk2014

It's still going to be a Homewood Suites as well - it's a dual brand hotel with the Canopy brand on the top levels and the Homewood Suites on the lower levels - You can see how the fenestration changes differentiate the brands in the rough draft rendering.

Ah yes, I see it.

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Originally Posted by sbrptree

Here is the summary of the proposal:

http://www.midtownatl.com/about/programs...review-committee/february-2016-drc-recap

Hopefully the DRC didn't give Dewberry more reason to do nothing.

Lebowski · #**17033** Posted **Feb 11, 2016, 6:48 PM**

Surveyor on site at 98 14th street. Not sure what this means, but he's been there since at least 8 this morning.

GeorgiaPeanuts · #**17034** Posted **Feb 11, 2016, 7:19 PM**

Are they going to coverup the exterior concrete columns on the Atlantic House, I thought it was supposed to be gold/bronze color exterior wise. Right now it is looking very much identical to another Skyhouse if they don't cover those columns.

ATLmangum · #**17035** Posted **Feb 11, 2016, 7:56 PM**

Alta on the park is a go! Also looks like a new construction office is being set up next to the food truck lot, wonder what project that is for?

Triptychtwo · #**17036** Posted **Feb 11, 2016, 8:19 PM**

Land development filed for 53 14th.

Verge · #**17037** Posted **Feb 11, 2016, 10:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

Are they going to coverup the exterior concrete columns on the Atlantic House, I thought it was supposed to be gold/bronze color exterior wise. Right now it is looking very much identical to another Skyhouse if they don't cover those columns.

Sorry nope-- definitely exposed concrete ala Skyhouse

sbrptree · #**17038** Posted **Feb 11, 2016, 11:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by Verge

Sorry nope-- definitely exposed concrete ala Skyhouse

That's discouraging....drawings show a finish similar to One Atlantic and it's mini cousin.

ATLmangum · #**17039** Posted **Feb 12, 2016, 1:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by sbrptree

That's discouraging....drawings show a finish similar to One Atlantic and it's mini cousin.

That's incorrect, it will have a facade. At least the first two or three levels will to match one Atlantic.

Ant131531 · #**17040** Posted **Feb 12, 2016, 1:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by Lebowski

Surveyor on site at 98 14th street. Not sure what this means, but he's been there since at least 8 this morning.

Omg....can it finally be happening? The biggest Midtown project of the decade? Atlanta needs a decent skyscraper built before the decade ends.