Atlanta Project Thread IV

[smArTaLlone]

New proposal at 400 Bishop St.

112,258 SF of 4-Star Office Space


https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/400-Bishop-St-NW-Atlanta-GA/16323681/

[Ant131531]

Looks nice, but they need to find a way to connect Atlantic Station to Bishop St. Some type of bridge over the tracks or something, even if it's just for pedestrians.

[ATLswede]

Originally Posted by smArTaLlone

New proposal at 400 Bishop St.

112,258 SF of 4-Star Office Space


https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/400-Bishop-St-NW-Atlanta-GA/16323681/

More of THIS please. Quality materials in measured proportions, no obvious giant parking deck, and building footprint that comes up to the edge of public right of way. It's not that hard, people.

[smArTaLlone]

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...ver-of.html?iana=hpmvp_atl_news_headline

The historic Atlanta Belting Co. building on Edgewood Avenue will be redeveloped with stores and restaurants, according to new plans filed with the city.

The design features 35,000 square feet of retail space including restaurants, along with 18,000-square-feet for office space on the property’s second floor, according to architect ASD|SKY.

Plans for the adaptive reuse project come about two months after real estate company Asana Partners bought the Belting Co. buildings at 560 Edgewood Ave. Asana paid $12 million for the two-acre property — its latest purchase of historic or landmark buildings in walkable neighborhoods and near the Atlanta Beltline. Atlanta Belting Co. was established in Atlanta in 1923, and the building has been a fixture on Edgewood Avenue.

[smArTaLlone]

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...proposal-moving-forward-in-buckhead.html

Atlanta-based Cartel Properties recently filed plans in Atlanta for the two-tower project, located just north of the Buckhead Village.

The project would include a 12-story, 200-room Dream hotel, a lifestyle brand from New York-based Dream Hotel Group LLC.

Another 12-story tower would have around 50 residences. The development would also have about 80,000 square feet of commercial space, according to documents submitted in Atlanta. Amenities would include a spa and wellness concept, and dining and nightlife venues such as a 17,000-square-foot rooftop bar and lounge.

[Ant131531]

Originally Posted by smArTaLlone

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news...ver-of.html?iana=hpmvp_atl_news_headline

This sounds great. I would love for this to trigger a redevelopment of the lot with the dental office across the street to a multi-family building with retail.

[smArTaLlone]

Thanks to a generous gift by the Woodruff Foundation, construction on a new Winship Cancer Institute tower at Emory University Hospital Midtown will start later this year with completion expected in 2023. The building is proposed to be 17 stories tall, with 455,000 square feet of space.

https://winshipcancer.emory.edu/roundup/issues/2019/june-10.html


https://twitter.com/cbenderatl/status/1141020054118686720

[Ant131531]

Is there any retail with the building or is this just Emory ruining that part of Midtown more?

[Street Advocate]

Originally Posted by smArTaLlone

Winship Cancer Center

That appears the tower will be on Peachtree just north of Linden, with a skywalk over to Linden.

[jpk1292000]

Originally Posted by Ant131531

Is there any retail with the building or is this just Emory ruining that part of Midtown more?

Is it typical for there to be retail with a hospital other than the hospital gift shop, dining area, etc? I'm not aware of copious retail being attached to hospitals in an urban area in other cities. For instance, is there retail built into Mass General Hospital in Boston or at New York Presbyterian? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm asking because I've never seen it.

It's unfortunate because this area is an important link in activating and stitching together the urban fabric of Downtown and Midtown.

[dmbolp]

Ugh, just what I feared, the tower is right up against Peachtree, completely blocking my westward view from my condo at The Reynolds, 565 Peachtree, where we're right up against Peachtree facing west

My current view:

[AtlHeel]

[QUOTE=dmbolp;8609344]Ugh, just what I feared, the tower is right up against Peachtree, completely blocking my westward view from my condo at The Reynolds, 565 Peachtree, where we're right up against Peachtree facing west

so sorry to hear! bummer

I think it will attract more services and residences to the area and you'll still have good views SW and NE perhaps?!

[dmbolp]

[QUOTE=AtlHeel;8609358]

Originally Posted by dmbolp

Ugh, just what I feared, the tower is right up against Peachtree, completely blocking my westward view from my condo at The Reynolds, 565 Peachtree, where we're right up against Peachtree facing west

so sorry to hear! bummer

I think it will attract more services and residences to the area and you'll still have good views SW and NE perhaps?!

Yeah, we'll still have good views of the stadium, north to the Fox and Piedmont Park to the NE, but probably no more sunsets

[RocketSurgeon]

It won't be complete until 2023? 3-4 years seems like a very long timeline.

[alco89]

Originally Posted by RocketSurgeon

It won't be complete until 2023? 3-4 years seems like a very long timeline.

Hospital towers always seem to take much longer. I've never gotten a good explanation as to why.

[bigstick]

Originally Posted by alco89

Hospital towers always seem to take much longer. I've never gotten a good explanation as to why.

Seems like the Piedmont Tower went up pretty quick???

[ATL_J]

Originally Posted by montydawg

This is an impressive project for sure, however, if you compare this with the current proposal, you will notice that this has about 40% fewer units that the current proposal. The building is taller than the current proposal, but has fewer units, so the economics probably don't match up with what financing they can get for this site. They will probably just concentrate on making the facade look better to appeal to a wider audience

Where are you getting that the previous proposal had 40% fewer units? The DRC agenda says this proposal has 299 units. I can assure you, the previous proposal had a similar number of units.

[atlantaarchitect]

Originally Posted by bigstick

Seems like the Piedmont Tower went up pretty quick???

It's a bit deceiving. While outwardly the Piedmont Tower looks nearly finished, internally work will continue on the lower floors until 2022 and will continue on the upper floors for the next +/-7 years

"Until 2022, the top six stories will remain vacant. From 2022 through 2026, the upper floors will be built out, adding 276 additional beds—for a total of 408 beds and 10 operating rooms."

Given this building started in 17', you're talking about a decade timeline. Hospitals are complicated beasts: zoned HVAC, plumbing, high electrical loads, specialty equipment, gasses, etc etc. All these extra fixtures and features add complication, cost, and time. Another interesting tidbit that puts hospital's into perspective:

"A hospital rep sends this clarification regarding the building, which helps to explain its visibility from afar: “It’s 225 feet, which is built to the maximum allowed by city zoning rules for that particular neighborhood and that side of the street in Atlanta. And while 16 stories might not seem like a lot, hospital floors are considerably larger than residential floors. If it weren’t a hospital building, it would be more like 25 floors.”

https://atlanta.curbed.com/2019/3/22/18276824/buckhead-piedmont-medical-tower-vertical-construction

[montydawg]

Originally Posted by ATL_J

Where are you getting that the previous proposal had 40% fewer units? The DRC agenda says this proposal has 299 units. I can assure you, the previous proposal had a similar number of units.

Sorry, I was purely looking at the renderings- no metrics were published for the previous renderings to my knowledge. By counting floors and the current L shaped building design to the previous tapered stack, it appeared the upper floors had far fewer units that the current design, however, the lowest floors seemed to compare in footprint. It is expensive to build tall, so having a taller building with fewer units would be much more expensive to build on a cost per sq ft basis. I think the previous rendering was only a concept

[smArTaLlone]

Leaders of All Saints Episcopal Church off West Peachtree Street and Saint Luke's Episcopal Church off Peachtree Street are evaluating potential redevelopments of sections of their church land into mixed-use projects with private developers.


After acquiring the rest of its block, a string of aging retail spaces across from The Varsity sandwiched between West Peachtree and Spring streets in Midtown, in 2015, All Saints convened a committee of prominent parishioners to study what to do next, including the possibility of building housing or a mix of uses. “Developers are calling us more. But developers are looking for land that is able to be built in high density,” Emory University Candler School of Theology professor Lang Lowrey said.

“Developers are calling us more. But developers are looking for land that is able to be built in high density,” Emory University Candler School of Theology professor Lang Lowrey said.

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