ATLANTA | Development Thread V - Page 867

GeorgiaPeanuts · #**17321** Posted **Mar 2, 2016, 8:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by cabasse

^ that's a place i never thought i'd see a highrise pop up, but why not! i assume this is right in the same area as that 'custom signs today' building with the glass facade. (edit) wait, are your first and second sentence referring to the same project?

agreed. i love me some mies.

No the first rezoning is for one of the properties for the Shadowlawn and Peachtree tower. It is occupied by a hair salon right now I believe.

DNR · #**17322** Posted **Mar 2, 2016, 8:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by A-town

Really Benz?! I mean really... they had to have seen what Porshe built in Hapeville, but this is what they decide to build. This building is atrocious. No creativity, just an uninspired glass box with a detached parking garage in a sea of asphalt. This is your American HQs, its suppose to make a statement! Highly disappointed.

What a wasted opportunity to build something worthy of such an Innovative company.
I believe the CEO even spoke of mass transit connectivity being an important component of the project – if I’m not mistaken.

jpk1292000 · #**17323** Posted **Mar 2, 2016, 9:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by Pemgin

Gonna jump on the dogpile here RE: Mercedes HQ. That really sucks.

I thought this rendering was from The Onion. Unfortunately, it's very real.

ATLiteRail · #**17324** Posted **Mar 2, 2016, 9:15 PM**

Last time I checked, Mercedes-Benz is a car company. That means they make and sell CARS.

micropundit · #**17325** Posted **Mar 2, 2016, 9:23 PM**

https://www.bisnow.com/atlanta/news/office/first-look-mercedes-benz-sandy-springs-hq-56805?rt=9793

arjay57 · #**17326** Posted **Mar 2, 2016, 9:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/...-usa-reveals-design-for-100-million.html
Mercedes HQ rendering released

Interesting quote from former Mercedes chief Steve Cannon:

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Talent — and access to mass transit — drove Mercedes' site selection in the Central Perimeter business district. The Central Perimeter, located in between the family-friendly northern Atlanta suburbs and the millennial-rich intown neighborhoods, offers access to suburban and urban living.

Employees concerned with houses and and schools "can locate north and commute south," Cannon said earlier. "The young Gen-Yers that want that downtown urban living...can take a short MARTA ride, north (to work).

Yet they are still a pretty good hike from the MARTA station -- roughly 3/4 of a mile or so -- and it's not the most inviting walk.

Perhaps they will run a shuttle?

BlueSangha · #**17327** Posted **Mar 3, 2016, 12:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

No the first rezoning is for one of the properties for the Shadowlawn and Peachtree tower. It is occupied by a hair salon right now I believe.

I walked by the site today. There is also a Fur place there too.

BlueSangha · #**17328** Posted **Mar 3, 2016, 12:50 AM**

I saw a sign for this today: Appeal of One Buckhead Look Condominium Association, Inc. of a decision of an administrative officer of the Office of Planning for the approval of a Special Administrative Permit (SAP-14-159) for property located at 3350 Peachtree Road, N.E., fronting 1,359 feet on the northwest side of Peachtree Road and beginning approximately 580 feet from the northwest intersection of Peachtree Road and Stratford Road. Zoned SPI-12, SA-1 (Buckhead/Lenox Stations Special Public Interest District). Land Lot 62 of the 17th District, Fulton County, Georgia. Owner: Parkway One Capital Plaza, LLC & Regent Atlanta IV, LLC Council District 7, NPU B

Isn't this were there are two new towers proposed in the parking lot behind Capital City Plaza?

GeorgiaPeanuts · #**17329** Posted **Mar 3, 2016, 1:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by BlueSangha

I saw a sign for this today: Appeal of One Buckhead Look Condominium Association, Inc. of a decision of an administrative officer of the Office of Planning for the approval of a Special Administrative Permit (SAP-14-159) for property located at 3350 Peachtree Road, N.E., fronting 1,359 feet on the northwest side of Peachtree Road and beginning approximately 580 feet from the northwest intersection of Peachtree Road and Stratford Road. Zoned SPI-12, SA-1 (Buckhead/Lenox Stations Special Public Interest District). Land Lot 62 of the 17th District, Fulton County, Georgia. Owner: Parkway One Capital Plaza, LLC & Regent Atlanta IV, LLC Council District 7, NPU B

Isn't this were there are two new towers proposed in the parking lot behind Capital City Plaza?

I think that is the Sovereign "phase 2" building. Apt tower + another office and condo tower that is supposed to be similar in styling to sovereign and not far off in height. I think it's Tower Place development

tdawg · #**17330** Posted **Mar 3, 2016, 1:21 AM**

I've driven by the old MB USA HQ in New Jersey a couple of times on my way Upstate and let me tell you that it was a very unassuming, unattractive campus in a busy, yes, but not very transit friendly part of North Jersey. I believe it was nearly 1 mile to the Montvale NJ Transit station.

sakau2007 · #**17331** Posted **Mar 3, 2016, 1:36 AM**

I guess I'm on an island when I think the MB building looks fine.

bryantm3 · #**17332** Posted **Mar 3, 2016, 2:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by BlueSangha

yawn

what did you guys expect from a car company?

thepope117 · #**17333** Posted **Mar 3, 2016, 3:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by bryantm3

what did you guys expect from a car company?

something like........

or

RudyJK · #**17334** Posted **Mar 3, 2016, 3:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by micropundit

https://www.bisnow.com/atlanta/news/office/first-look-mercedes-benz-sandy-springs-hq-56805?rt=9793

Straight outta Deutschland! Leni Riefenstahl snapping some pics and a German Shepherd or two would complete the ensemble neatly.

A-town · #**17335** Posted **Mar 3, 2016, 5:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by DNR

What a wasted opportunity to build something worthy of such an Innovative company.
I believe the CEO even spoke of mass transit connectivity being an important component of the project – if I’m not mistaken.

Yeah, I agree. Welcome to the forum btw.

GeorgiaPeanuts · #**17336** Posted **Mar 3, 2016, 2:41 PM**

http://buckheadview.com/2016/03/03/cid-t...oudermilk-park-review-sky-park-proposal/

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Turning to a more complex park situation, the CID heard Durrett report that a subcommittee of the board is reviewing proposals from six design firms related to the vision of building an almost 10-acre park in the air space over GA 400 and the Buckhead MARTA rail station that would stretch from Peachtree to Lenox roads.

In January, the board decided to issue a request for proposals for park designs and cost estimates. “We had six outstanding teams [submit]…They absolutely understand the project,” said Durrett.

But Thad Ellis, senior vice president at Cousins Properties and a member of the review subcommittee, voiced another opinion. Ellis said a couple of the proposals are just a “fancy regurgitation” of items in the CID request, while another stood out as “fantastic.”

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At the CID’s April meeting, the firm selected by the subcommittee will be presented to the full board, including its technical qualifications and their estimated costs. At that time the board may vote to move forward to the next step, or put the concept on the shelf for now.

So we will know early next month whether the GA400 park will move forward or be shelved, and possibly see the selected vision from the six submissions.

joecool · #**17337** Posted **Mar 3, 2016, 3:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

http://buckheadview.com/2016/03/03/cid-t...oudermilk-park-review-sky-park-proposal/

So we will know early next month whether the GA400 park will move forward or be shelved, and possibly see the selected vision from the six submissions.

I have never really been a fan of Buckhead or cared much about what development happened outside of Downtown/Midtown, but I REALLY hope this happens for Buckhead. This would be AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe they'll do something like this in Midtown over 75/85.

GeorgiaPeanuts · #**17338** Posted **Mar 3, 2016, 6:03 PM**

https://www.reddit.com/r/Atlanta/comments/48s8f1/a_subcommittee_of_the_board_is_reviewing/d0m7g08

Someone is saying the work for a design firm, and that the park is already approved as far as they are aware.

Atlanta3000 · #**17339** Posted **Mar 3, 2016, 7:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

https://www.reddit.com/r/Atlanta/comments/48s8f1/a_subcommittee_of_the_board_is_reviewing/d0m7g08

Someone is saying the work for a design firm, and that the park is already approved as far as they are aware.

Not true. No funding has been allocated beside the design and engineering.

They need a final design in order to get a cost of construction from a contractor. Once they have that, they will then pursue funding through various sources.

micropundit · #**17340** Posted **Mar 4, 2016, 2:49 PM**

A large-scale adaptive reuse has been announced for Grant Street by Philippe Pellerin, a developer who is active in several projects in Grant Park and the surrounding area.A group of industrial buildings at the end of Grant Street will soon be transformed into a $20 million adaptive reuse dining and entertainment project along the Atlanta Beltline’s planned Southside Trail within walking distance of Zoo Atlanta.The project would create a ‘tasting room’ atmosphere with several restaurants and an urban winery.

https://whatnowatlanta.com/grant-park-to-get-entertainment-district/