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Originally Posted by Street Advocate
I'm definitely rooting for Cumberland to turn the corner when it comes to mixed use and density. The recent streetscaping and traffic signal installation along Cobb Pkwy was a huge improvement, although it's essentially I-75.20. Really hoping one day we see MARTA expand to Cobb including HRT to Arts Center and not just to Sandy Springs. But if we don't, we still should encourage walkable neighborhoods who want to live and work nearby. So long as Swapna continues to exist, I will not riot with mixed use developments coming to the area  |
I am all for hoping that Cumberland gets the walkable density it needs to support rail transit, but it is looking like an uphill battle. If you consider the developments on the edge of that 1 mile range like Stadium Walk walkable to a hypothetical transit station at STP, then you also consider Turner Field walkable to GSU MARTA station. Not many are going to walk that. Cumberland still has a long way to go before it will become a walkable / transit accessible district.
And dumping hundreds of millions of tax dollars into a stadium in hoping it would spur walkable development around it is looking pretty thin. Here is a list of significant new developments within one mile walking distance of STP & Summerhill:
STP
-The Battery (600 apartments, 400k SF retail & office)
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This Westplan Development (310 apts, 55k SF office, 11k SF retail)
-Stadium Walk (392 apts, 80k SF retail)
-The Reserve at the Ballpark (320 apts)
Turner / Summerhill
-GSU / Carter Summerhill redevelopment (2,700 apts, 1.5M SF of office, 700K SF retail)
-Underground Atlanta (1,000 apts, 345K SF or retail)
-Newport's South Downtown (52+ apts, 225K+ SF retail, 173K+ SF office)
-290 MLK Dr (325 apts)
-The George (130 apts, 12k SF retail)
-The Leonard (94 apts, 6K SF retail)
-King TOD (386 apts, 13K SF retail)
-The Beacon (110K SF retail)
But it sounds like Smyrna knows they need more density than they are getting with this development:
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...“We’re looking for bigger and bolder smart growth in that area,” Norton said.
However, the Smyrna planning and zoning board tabled a vote on the project during its Monday night meeting, and city staff will meet with the developers over the next few weeks to hammer out details.
“We’re not interested in the typical 300- and 400-unit apartment buildings. I think we’re missing an opportunity if we don’t do something big and bold in that location,” said Norton. “We don’t want to mess it up and wish we’d done it differently later on.”
Specifically, Norton noted he’d like to see taller buildings included to allow for more retail and office space.
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http://riveredges.com/2017/08/major-mixe...-mall-emerson-office-park-in-cumberland/
I am hoping the area finds a way to attract the development it needs, but the stadium was a bad strategy. They really should have invested that $400M towards getting the transit line built. Then they would have had developers all over the areas where the stations were planned wanting to do TODs.
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