Atlanta Project Thread IV

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[smArTaLlone]

This one will be a battle.


https://saportareport.com/proposed-proje...ite-monroe-10th-streets-raises-concerns/

One of the most complicated intersections in Atlanta – where the BeltLine intersects with 10th Street and Monroe Drive – will face even more challenges with a new proposed development on an adjacent 4-acre site.

The sale is conditional on the developer getting the property rezoned from single-family to allow for a higher density development.

And the rezoning process will trigger a rigorous public participation process to determine the future of the site – a process that could determine which priorities Atlanta will adopt as it adds population and development.

Already, the impacted neighborhoods around the site (just northeast of the Park Tavern) have pushed back against the proposed plans.

“Midtown isn’t in support of this project as it is currently proposed,” said Anthony Rizzuto, president of the Midtown Neighbor’s Association. “We were never brought into to the process.”

Most importantly, Rizzuto said it is one of the most “sensitive” sites along the BeltLine because it is next to single-family homes.

[Street Advocate]

Originally Posted by smArTaLlone

This one will be a battle.


https://saportareport.com/proposed-proje...ite-monroe-10th-streets-raises-concerns/

I have issue with how the “leadership” of these neighborhoods see “growth” in Atlanta. MNA ana VHCA particularly like to put on a facade that they are progressive, when really they are some of the biggest NIMBY’s in Atlanta.

[Ant131531]

Originally Posted by Street Advocate

I have issue with how the “leadership” of these neighborhoods see “growth” in Atlanta. MNA ana VHCA particularly like to put on a facade that they are progressive, when really they are some of the biggest NIMBY’s in Atlanta.

Pretty much the same thing in most liberal cities.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

Good thing it is a Fuqua project. He knows how to ram these things thru

[smArTaLlone]

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...-atomic-entertainments-pullman-yard.html

Atomic Entertainment on Jan. 31 released the first images of its planned redevelopment of the historic Pratt-Pullman Yard, which is set to kick off this summer.

The project will cost more than $100 million.

The company, whose founders are Los Angeles transplants Adam Rosenfelt and Maureen Meulen, plans to keep the best elements of the old railyard and make improvements that will pay tribute to its industrial roots.

The new renderings show the site's buildings, some of which date back to 1904, restored to former glory and surrounded by fountains and walkways.

Atomic's plans for Pullman Yard also include one sound stage, a boutique hotel, an outdoor concert venue, residential, office and coworking space and an incubator. The project will cost more than $100 million to complete.

[trainiac]

Change is coming to another corner in the Old 4th Ward. They tore down the generic 2-story brick building on the northwest corner of Blvd and Angier on Monday. That sycamore has had an orange X on it for a while but maybe they are going to save it?


The building you can see on the left was built on a lot where the existing generic brick unit burned back around 2009. It took something more than 5 years to get what you see here. That sidewalk was closed forever! Hopefully whatever goes on this new corner will be a little more inspiring and a little quicker.

[smArTaLlone]

I think its City Lights phase 2. Unfortunately, it will be just as bland architecturally.


https://www.atlantadowntown.com/go/city-lights-ii

[Libertarian]

May be bland but it's rent-reasonable which is what's needed in the area.

[Martinman]

I noticed that It looks like the Bulldogs property changed hands last year. Does anyone have any inside knowledge?

I think it will be a huge, huge win for Midtown when the rest of that block gets redeveloped with better street engagement.

[Street Advocate]

14th st hotel:

[Neighbor]

Originally Posted by smArTaLlone

I think its City Lights phase 2. Unfortunately, it will be just as bland architecturally.


https://www.atlantadowntown.com/go/city-lights-ii

Does anyone know if this will technically be Section 8 housing? I believe that the buildings which it is replacing were Section 8. This area desperately needs to shed some of the Section 8 housing along the Blvd corridor. Unfortunately, the slum lord who owns them all is building this building too. I'd be really interested to know whether this is more of the same or if it will be occupied by new tenants.

[Libertarian]

It needs to be Sec. 8. That's the reality.

[Neighbor]

Explain please.

[Libertarian]

Lots of low-income folks in Atlanta and they need housing too. Is that a headline?

[Libertarian]

Seriously, I live in the burbs and Obama put a couple of previously Sec. 8, new homeowners on my cul-de-sac, and I'm fine with it! What's the problem maintaining the poor in areas that are to greater or lesser degree gentrifying, not displacing them? I can't believe we suburban homesteaders are more progressive than you O4W newcomers, so what gives? Why does everything have to be plain vanilla in your neighborhood?

[Atlanta3000]

Originally Posted by Libertarian

Lots of low-income folks in Atlanta and they need housing too. Is that a headline?

Section 8 is the worst idea to house the low income demo into concentrated areas of a city or a complex. Low income citizens need to be assimilated into the working class neighborhoods. There is something to be said when a low income person sees their neighbors getting up every day and working an honest 8 hour job. When you are surrounded by despair, you are like to remain there. Just my $0.02.

[Libertarian]

3K, I do agree with your observation, and we know Boulevard could use more gentrifying, but the poor have to live somewhere that's convenient to jobs and allows reasonable housing options in locales with which they are familiar and have already been living. Not every neighborhood has to follow the same formula to achieve livability.

[Neighbor]

Originally Posted by Libertarian

3K, I do agree with your observation, and we know Boulevard could use more gentrifying, but the poor have to live somewhere that's convenient to jobs and allows reasonable housing options in locales with which they are familiar and have already been living. Not every neighborhood has to follow the same formula to achieve livability.

Boulevard has the largest concentration of Sec 8 housing in the Southeast and its not as if Boulevard became a convenient destination just now. It has always had close proximity to job centers. Tell me, how exactly has that worked out on improving the lives of these Sec 8 residents? Answer: It hasn't.

Just like the homeless problem, you don't fix these people's plight by lumping them together in highly concentrated areas. It has a cascading effect on crime, shitty schools, infrastructure, etc. Virtually every study corroborates that.

Now throw in the mix an out of town, soulless, slumlord and you have a bonafide shithole. Any nitwit would agree that the way out of this disaster is not to simply go ahead with business as usual. Not only is it not in the interests of the Sec 8 residents to stay in an area that is highly concentrated with like residents, it also is an impediment to bettering the area as a whole.

Atlanta will certainly struggle to bridge the development gap between Midtown and the Eastside neighborhoods so long as Blvd keeps doing what its doing. Everyone should push for this to be anything other than Sec 8 housing.

[L41A]

Originally Posted by Martinman

I noticed that It looks like the Bulldogs property changed hands last year. Does anyone have any inside knowledge?

I think it will be a huge, huge win for Midtown when the rest of that block gets redeveloped with better street engagement.

Bulldogs engages the street a whole lot better than the restaurants (Noodles, etc) that are on the corner of 8th and Peachtree which has parking fronting the streets. I wonder why some seem to concentrate on it and not so much on what's on the corner of the block.