ATLANTA | Development Thread V

[jnihiser]

Alta:






Multi-family (I believe it's called Westside Heights...Worthington Companies):


Brookwood Square Apartments (a great replacement for a strip mall and parking lot):

[Street Advocate]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

Juniper and 5th moving forward: https://www.bisnow.com/atlanta/news/multifamily/juniper-5th-a-go-60250?rt=17253]

Yep, building 2 & 3 filed for construction on Monday. Building 1 files on the 2nd of May. Very excited to see this moving forward!

https://aca.accela.com/atlanta_ga/Cap/Ca...gencyCode=ATLANTA_GA&IsToShowInspection=

[arctk2014]

Batson-Cook breaks ground on North & Line project behind the Masquerade (Excelsior Mill).

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

Originally Posted by arctk2014

Batson-Cook breaks ground on North & Line project behind the Masquerade (Excelsior Mill).

Interesting that area has a ton of developments with Smith Dalia as the architects...

[arctk2014]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

Interesting that area has a ton of developments with Smith Dalia as the architects...

Smith-Dalia was pivotal in helping to establish the master plan for the area around the park rather then having the area become developed piecemeal without the park. Their efforts helped to establish relationships with all the land-owners/developers in the area- which in turn has helped their firm design most of the projects around the O4W Park.

Beginning in 2003, Markham Smith spearheaded the effort to transform one such area into a major urban greenspace, Historic Fourth Ward Park. Located in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward, this 17-acre park's central lake amenity doubles as a sustainable stormwater detention pond. Markham worked to coalesce a group of developers and community leaders from this once-thriving, historically African- American neighborhood that includes the Martin Luther King National Historic Site. As a result, Historic Fourth Ward Park (H4WP) has become the Atlanta BeltLine's first new park, winning accolades and an Atlanta Urban Design Commission and ULI award for its innovation and design excellence.

https://www.tpl.org/about/markham-smith

[clexmond]

On the Beltline with 228 units and a restaurant and North and Line needs 461 parking spaces?

[ATL_J]

Originally Posted by clexmond

On the Beltline with 228 units and a restaurant and North and Line needs 461 parking spaces?

You'll probably need one space per bed, then you have the restaurant space, and then this will be parking the future redevelopment of Excelsior Mill.

[Ant131531]

The apartment project doesn't look bad but it'll be interesting to see what materials they use. I wish more apartment projects used limestone.

[Verge]

It also helps that the partners of Smith Dalia owned much of the land and sold it with the condition that they would provide architecture for the anything built on the site--

[jnihiser]

Project at Juniper and 6th:

[jnihiser]

Is something brewing on Fairmont Ave NW, right off Huff Rd. in West Midtown?

I noticed that they had cleared and graded the area around 1455 FAIRMONT AVE NW ATLANTA GA 30318.

Checking on Accela, it appears that there was a consolidation of the 3 parcels around that address into one parcel (it's right on the future NW Beltline), and the zoning appears to be MR-2.

Anyone have any insight on plans for this lot? It's adjacent to Brock's new West Town development.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

Originally Posted by jnihiser

Is something brewing on Fairmont Ave NW, right off Huff Rd. in West Midtown?

I noticed that they had cleared and graded the area around 1455 FAIRMONT AVE NW ATLANTA GA 30318.

Checking on Accela, it appears that there was a consolidation of the 3 parcels around that address into one parcel (it's right on the future NW Beltline), and the zoning appears to be MR-2.

Anyone have any insight on plans for this lot? It's adjacent to Brock's new West Town development.

That was where AMLI was going to build AMLI West Town in the last cycle

[Street Advocate]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

That was where AMLI was going to build AMLI West Town in the last cycle

Do either of you know if it was cleared during last cycle or recently cleared? Would AMLI be able to move forward with this project without additional review/have they paid their fees?

[jnihiser]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

That was where AMLI was going to build AMLI West Town in the last cycle

I forgot about that proposal...but actually, the area I am talking about is on the west side of Fairmont, and not the east side fronting Huff.

[micropundit]

Keysight Technologies, a leading provider of electronic design and test software, equipment, and services, will expand the company’s presence by opening an operation in Atlanta. This project will create more than 200 software engineering jobs and represents an investment of $13.9 million. I am excited that Keysight Technologies will be one of the first companies to call the high-performance computing center at Georgia Tech home. This is another victory for the City and Invest Atlanta in attracting more companies and establishing Atlanta as one of the fastest growing innovation centers in the United States,” said Mayor Kasim Reed.
http://www.news.gatech.edu/2016/05/18/keysight-technologies-coming-technology-square

[GTdan]

NA Properties just filed a building permit to add a bicycle valet in the lobby of Colony Square. Hopefully soon we will see some plans on the full redevelopment of the property.

[Street Advocate]

Initial approval for bonds to be issued for Civic Center Redevelopment:

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/...enter-redevelopment-gets-initial-go.html

[Zanarkand A East]

Originally Posted by GTdan

NA Properties just filed a building permit to add a bicycle valet in the lobby of Colony Square. Hopefully soon we will see some plans on the full redevelopment of the property.

Here's hoping! As far as retail, NA seems dead-set against any chains, and would prefer local chefs, which hopefully doesn't turn out like Diner in Atlantic Station. I really hope something affordable goes in the former Houlihan's restaurant space, because that was one of the few reasonable places in the area at the time.

[Zanarkand A East]

Originally Posted by DWNTWN

The streetcar is great, and is leaps and bounds better than a bus. We need more streetcars, alongside more HRT, BRT, and commuter rail on the freight lines (or right of ways). We need it all. Anything less is not a serious discussion. The development spurred by the beltline, which has always been envisioned as a transit corridor, has been tremendous. The streetcar downtown has amped up development downtown as well. People want the option of transit. Huge numbers of Atlantans could ride MARTA every day, they just choose not to. Their choice not to untilize transit available to them (like people do in all of the cities people on this forum fantasize about) should not prohibit the expansion of a system that hundreds of thousands of people use every day with ease. I am sure many of you are better traveled than I, but having utilized transit systems in 33 countries I can attest to the need for more MARTA, as well as how good of a system MARTA already is. Yeah I said it. It is a good system. It doesn't go everywhere, but neither do the systems in NYC, Seoul, or Shanghai, and they are comparatively massive. I ride MARTA every day, as does my wife. We ride it to work, to our "country house" in East Point, to shop, to buy groceries, and to take bikes to Piedmont Park/Beltline for a Saturday or Sunday ride. The cars are much smoother, quieter, and roomier than the largest and newest rail cars in NYC and CHI. What are we complaining about? The proposed measure requires a half a penny tax. That is $0.50 on your $100 grocery bill. Will you miss it? We moved deeper into the city to get away from the CAVE people (citizens against virtually everything) that seem to run rampant around metro ATL. If we can't pass this transit tax we don't deserve to have the city we can have.

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[RocketSurgeon]

Originally Posted by Zanarkand A East

Here's hoping! As far as retail, NA seems dead-set against any chains, and would prefer local chefs, which hopefully doesn't turn out like Diner in Atlantic Station. I really hope something affordable goes in the former Houlihan's restaurant space, because that was one of the few reasonable places in the area at the time.

It looks like 5Church will be opening soon (where Shout used to be). I wouldn't call that a chain, but it's not local. It's really hard to open a one-off restaurant with rents that high; it can succeed with some luck (Tamarind Seed an obvious example) but I imagine most of them will be chains or satellite locations--hopefully more the latter.

Some unrelated tidbits: Some of the new traffic lights are up along 7th for the two-way conversion, and workers are really putting in long hours at the QuikTrip... it looks nowhere near finished but I think they're trying to get it open ASAP so it may not be too long from now. Also, something is being done to the power lines on Spring at 10th where Hanover West Peachtree is finally rising up... possibly just replacing the poles, but hopefully moving or burying them.