ATLANTA | Development Thread VI - Page 570

The Best Forumer · #**11381** Posted **Feb 14, 2019, 4:33 PM**

i dont understand what you mean... it looks nice...

Atlantis · #**11382** Posted **Feb 14, 2019, 4:48 PM**

First rendering of controversial downtown Margaritaville tower has surfaced

First rendering of controversial downtown Margaritaville tower has surfaced

The controversial resort proposal is expected to climb 21 stories and feature upwards of 200 “vacation ownership units”—urban timeshares—an 18th floor pool deck and spa, and a two-story, 14,000-square-foot Margaritaville restaurant

https://atlanta.curbed.com/atlanta-devel...e-downtown-atlanta-152-nassau-demolition

One ATLien · #**11383** Posted **Feb 14, 2019, 11:30 PM**

I don't know if this has been addressed, does anyone know why there is scaffolding on the sidewalk in front of 3344 Peachtree/Sovereign? It seems like its been there for at least a couple of years now, maybe longer. I feel like its a permanent fixture at this point.

sbrptree · #**11384** Posted **Feb 15, 2019, 1:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by Historic

^ Love it, reminds me of a watered down version of a Swedish library.

What's a library?

MARTAisSmarta · #**11385** Posted **Feb 15, 2019, 12:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by sbrptree

What's a library?

You must be from Cobb

Newnan_Eric · #**11386** Posted **Feb 15, 2019, 7:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by One ATLien

I don't know if this has been addressed, does anyone know why there is scaffolding on the sidewalk in front of 3344 Peachtree/Sovereign? It seems like its been there for at least a couple of years now, maybe longer. I feel like its a permanent fixture at this point.

This is due to a legal dispute with the Structural Engineer on the project. There is some claim that the wind loading should have been re-calculated after some design changes. The concern is that some of the residential balconies have tile that could come loose and fall to the ground below.

Until the lawsuit is settled, the scaffold will remain.

One ATLien · #**11387** Posted **Feb 15, 2019, 8:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by Newnan_Eric

This is due to a legal dispute with the Structural Engineer on the project. There is some claim that the wind loading should have been re-calculated after some design changes. The concern is that some of the residential balconies have tile that could come loose and fall to the ground below.

Until the lawsuit is settled, the scaffold will remain.

Thank you, finally makes sense now

The Best Forumer · #**11388** Posted **Feb 15, 2019, 8:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by Atlantis

First rendering of controversial downtown Margaritaville tower has surfaced

First rendering of controversial downtown Margaritaville tower has surfaced

The controversial resort proposal is expected to climb 21 stories and feature upwards of 200 “vacation ownership units”—urban timeshares—an 18th floor pool deck and spa, and a two-story, 14,000-square-foot Margaritaville restaurant

https://atlanta.curbed.com/atlanta-devel...e-downtown-atlanta-152-nassau-demolition

why it this controversial? and what kind of name is margaritaville???? idiotic name.

finergrain · #**11389** Posted **Feb 15, 2019, 9:23 PM**

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echinatl · #**11390** Posted **Feb 15, 2019, 10:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by finergrain

It's controversial because they plan to tear down the birthplace of country music.
https://atlanta.curbed.com/2018/12/26/18...birthplace-country-music-downtown-resort

If you think this would be a big mistake, please sign the petition!
https://www.change.org/p/jimmy-buffett-save-the-south-s-first-ever-music-recording-studio

Those buildings are not worth saving. I bet 95% of the people signing that have never even seen the building in person. Just put in a nice plaque with some info on it and put something there that will actually get used and benefit the community.

GeorgiaPeanuts · #**11391** Posted **Feb 15, 2019, 10:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by finergrain

It's controversial because they plan to tear down the birthplace of country music.
https://atlanta.curbed.com/2018/12/26/18...birthplace-country-music-downtown-resort

If you think this would be a big mistake, please sign the petition!
https://www.change.org/p/jimmy-buffett-save-the-south-s-first-ever-music-recording-studio

It is not really the birthplace of Country music though. And the big artist that is referenced about it is hugely racist and wrote songs about the KKK and lynchings; I think one of his songs even incited the lynching of a man who had been alleged to have raped/killed a woman.

Building isn't anything special and there is no reason to use that disgusting man for saving the building.

Username123 · #**11392** Posted **Feb 15, 2019, 10:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by finergrain

It's controversial because they plan to tear down the birthplace of country music.

That’s not accurate, although that falsehood is commonly repeated. Earlier country records were made by Eck Robertson elsewhere.

Also, Fiddlin’ John Carson, who made the records at the Nassau Street building, was a terrible person. When Leo Frank was lynched by the klan, John Carson celebrated by singing a song he had written, which supported the execution of Leo Frank, for the crowds.

https://www.atlantastudies.org/2017/08/0...recorded-country-music-in-1920s-atlanta/

“Carson’s commemorative ballad “Little Mary Phagan” caught fire, especially among mill workers outraged by the crime and by what they perceived as attempts by Phagan’s supervisor and suspected killer Leo Frank to buy his way out of responsibility for it. On the day of Frank’s 1915 lynching, Carson sang the song for a crowd gathered at the Marietta Courthouse until he was hoarse.”

He also had a song titled, “Run, N****r, Run”, if the above wasn’t enough to convince you that he was no good.

finergrain · #**11393** Posted **Feb 15, 2019, 10:57 PM**

Apologies, everyone. I was unaware. Thanks for clearing this up!

jtown,man · #**11394** Posted **Feb 16, 2019, 1:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

It is not really the birthplace of Country music though. And the big artist that is referenced about it is hugely racist and wrote songs about the KKK and lynchings; I think one of his songs even incited the lynching of a man who had been alleged to have raped/killed a woman.

Building isn't anything special and there is no reason to use that disgusting man for saving the building.

Jesus, save the virtue signaling. Historical context is important. Also, if you feel so strongly about someone singing about racist —, how do you feel about visiting DC and see monuments to people who must have been racist as — to have slaves?

Sura · #**11395** Posted **Feb 16, 2019, 2:41 AM**

They were racist POS's, but that building is definitely a Mr. Potato Head, and I'm very racist against Potato Heads.

RocketSurgeon · #**11396** Posted **Feb 16, 2019, 3:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by tinyslam

Here is the site as of 5pm last night (Wednesday 2/13/19). You can see the small section of fence on 7th. They were filming Zombie-land 2 around here so I'm not sure if the fence/abandoned buildings were for filming or if this is the first section of the larger construction fence.

I dunno man, I've never seen a crew come out and install one segment of a construction fence... then what, install the next segment a couple weeks later and repeat for a month or two until it's done? That one is starting to feel D.O.A. to me. I hope I'm wrong because if those abandoned buildings remain then that block will turn into even more of a blight than it already was.

West Peachtree · #**11397** Posted **Feb 16, 2019, 5:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by RocketSurgeon

I dunno man, I've never seen a crew come out and install one segment of a construction fence... then what, install the next segment a couple weeks later and repeat for a month or two until it's done? That one is starting to feel D.O.A. to me. I hope I'm wrong because if those abandoned buildings remain then that block will turn into even more of a blight than it already was.

Admittedly, a partial fence is unusual. But, given who the new property owner is, when something happens, you won't be disappointed. www.901westpeachtree.com

Moreover, in an analysts earnings call just a week or so ago, the 901 West Peachtree site (including the 887 W.P. corner building) was referred to as a "terrific" site.

Colin Connolly

Absolutely. Midtown continues to be very robust and interest from large customers. And I would say if you look back five plus years ago, Midtown was really known as the legal hub of Atlanta. And it's evolved from there quite significantly and certainly began to pick the interest of certainly technology companies. And a lot of other large companies who are looking to tap into really the research and development and the talent over at Georgia Tech. And I'd say that really has been a key driver. That was certainly our experience with NCR. They wanted to be in Midtown close to mass transit, which Midtown offers and close to the talent and opportunity over Georgia Tech.

So we think that that will be a consistent theme. We've been positioning ourselves over the last several years to try to take advantage of those opportunities. And I think again in short order, hopefully, we'll be able to highlight that with Norfolk Southern. We also own a terrific site at 901 West Peachtree. And there's a lot of big customers in the market. So I know you would think of this traditional technology companies but also some other large corporate and financial services oriented companies who think of the technology and operations aspects of their business is really what's going to differentiate them going forward. And so we're very bullish on Midtown and certainly an area that will continue to focus on.

Subsequently, though, with AMAZON's HQ2 announcement pulling out of NY, maybe plans have changed with ATL back in the picture and this site among those on the table for AMZN. We can dream, right??

https://www.bisnow.com/atlanta/news/econ...ia-with-amazon-scrapping-nyc-plans-97531

ATLMidcity · #**11398** Posted **Feb 16, 2019, 11:54 AM**

FREE admission during the month of February at Atlanta's Civil and Human Rights Museum.
Thanks to Delta Airlines for contributing to Black History Month. Seems like now would be a good time to educate everyone on human and civil rights in these divided United States.
Happy Black History Month!

briantech · #**11399** Posted **Feb 16, 2019, 5:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by arctk2014

Or a Starbucks Roastery...

Some Starbucks (the Reserves) are pretty dang nice looking inside

jpk1292000 · #**11400** Posted **Feb 17, 2019, 7:05 PM**

Hey moderators...looks like the iOS version of this page is hacked again with a bunch of spam "claim your prize" —. This was a problem back in December and early January and then seemed OK until a few days ago.