ATLANTA | Development Thread V

[ATLaffinity]

test,

I see what you are saying. And I also think 10th st was an obvious choice.

I'm worried that an underutilized streetcar downtown will offer ammo to the anti-transportation lobby.

Was anybody looking to somehow go from Centennial Park to the MLK site? Are there many residents in this area?

Again, maybe it somehow serves GSU more than I can tell looking in from the outside.

[echinatl]

Originally Posted by ATLaffinity

test,

I see what you are saying. And I also think 10th st was an obvious choice.

I'm worried that an underutilized streetcar downtown will offer ammo to the anti-transportation lobby.

Was anybody looking to somehow go from Centennial Park to the MLK site? Are there many residents in this area?

Again, maybe it somehow serves GSU more than I can tell looking in from the outside.

I work downtown and will use it often to go from work to lunch spots. Plus it's "semething to do" when people visit. I could see me and the fam sitting around after doing the obvious stuff and then proposing we go for a ride on it.

[RudyJK]

Originally Posted by ATLaffinity

test,

I see what you are saying. And I also think 10th st was an obvious choice.

I'm worried that an underutilized streetcar downtown will offer ammo to the anti-transportation lobby.

Was anybody looking to somehow go from Centennial Park to the MLK site? Are there many residents in this area?

Again, maybe it somehow serves GSU more than I can tell looking in from the outside.

This is Atlanta. Politically, the streetcar HAD to go to the MLK Center first. We'll see how successful this eastern portion is. I mean, I don't even want to drive a car on Auburn Ave, much less take a streetcar.

[testarossa50]

Well, it's important to remember that (1) Jackson Street is an uncomfortably long walk from Five Points, (2) a decent number of people go to the King Center, and this will be the best way to get there from downtown, since the walk from King Memorial is a tad sketch for most people, (3) by pure market forces, O4W seems to be gentrifying and gaining new amenities at an astonishing rate.

I realize the route isn't a home run. Probably better classified as a single (Midtown to Howell Mill I would classify as a triple). But it does have plenty going for it. There's a reasonably good chance that it will be seen as an urban renewal success pretty widely--thus increasing city revenue for property taxes, decreasing crime, etc--even though, as I've said, this will be falsely attributed to some degree.

Still, I think there is a reasonable chance that an extension up Jackson Street and east on Irwin Street will be planned and maybe even funded before this project is fully delivered. If we could simply get the route to N Highland and free to move up the Beltline as funding permits, the streetcar's benefit would be a lot more difficult to question.

[simms3_redux]

I wanted to be the first to report that the tower crane for Skyhouse is going up as we speak. It looks like there will be one on the south side of the property along 12th St.

[BlueSangha]

Originally Posted by simms3_redux

I wanted to be the first to report that the tower crane for Skyhouse is going up as we speak. It looks like there will be one on the south side of the property along 12th St.

Did you also notice the five cranes in Buckhead?

[BlueSangha]

Hotel Midtown to become a Hyatt

http://www.ajc.com/business/hotel-midtown-to-become-1330081.html

[TarHeelJ]

Originally Posted by Tuckerman

Hardly my point. I would like just a small percentage of all those feasibility studies to be realized. My selves are full of good plans. Unfortunately many seem to think it is done when the plan is done. I am still waiting for the symphony hall (Calatrava anyone?); the multi-modal center; the subway to Northlake, Marietta, Clifton Rd; the Midtown plan; etc.

A small percentage of them ARE realized...a larger percentage don't make it past the study due to a lack of feasibility. It's kinda simple.

[ATLaffinity]

Beatys, Task Force is out of Peachtree-Pine in 10 days — UPDATE

Dear god let this be the end of it.

"Judge Schwall: "I'm not convinced that (the Beatys) have the best interests of the homeless in this city at heart. It's more about power, money, control, revenge and anger."

[Tuckerman]

Originally Posted by TarHeelJ

A small percentage of them ARE realized...a larger percentage don't make it past the study due to a lack of feasibility. It's kinda simple.

Most projects proposed die, whether they have a comprehensive feasibility effort or not. IMO the prime reason is funding. We have funded many poor ideas (look at the road construction mess) and many good ones, but it is simplistic to think that there is a strong causal relationship between good feasibility efforts and the final carrying out of a project. It would be nice if it were so, but there are many other aspects that enter into the picture. We always hope that decisions will be made on the best of evidence and that policy will be made on the best knowledge base. After nearly 40 years working in the public sector and making policy, I am a bit jaded about the role of evidence in decision taking. That is probably why I am skeptical of "feasibility" efforts. I am sure that the next generation will get it right - at least that is a hope.

[RudyJK]

Originally Posted by ATLaffinity

Beatys, Task Force is out of Peachtree-Pine in 10 days — UPDATE

Dear god let this be the end of it.

"Judge Schwall: "I'm not convinced that (the Beatys) have the best interests of the homeless in this city at heart. It's more about power, money, control, revenge and anger."

I hope they can make it stick this time and shut that hell hole down.

[sevensixtwo]

[trainiac]

Originally Posted by BlueSangha

Hotel Midtown to become a Hyatt

http://www.ajc.com/business/hotel-midtown-to-become-1330081.html

Woa, does this mean The Dew is starting to sell off some of his assets? Or is it a partnering thing?

[gttx]

Originally Posted by trainiac

Woa, does this mean The Dew is starting to sell off some of his assets? Or is it a partnering thing?

I don't think he owns Hotel Midtown. It's the hotel that is sort of behind 999 Peachtree, along the south side of 10th St.

[sevensixtwo]

he does own it i understand

[bob1616]

It is reported in the Atlanta Business Chronicle the Hotel Midtown went back to the lender last year. It was owned by an affiliate of Dewberry Capital Corp which owned the hotel. It's reported Dewberry paid $21 million for the building back in 2003. CW Capital foreclosed on it for $17.2 million.

[briantech]

Looks like the BOA Tower is going into a foreclosure auction, and is expected to sell for half of what the current owners paid for it in 2006.

Anyone want to chip in with me and buy it??

[cityenthusiast]

Ill throw in a hundred bucks for partial ownership. HAHA

[cityenthusiast]

Oh by the way it looks like the boring cox communications buildings are completed. I wish they would have just combined the two towers and made about a 28 story building rather than two 14 story buildings. It probably would have had a better design and been a little bit more exciting than what was really built.

[micropundit]

San Diego-based OliverMcMillan Inc., the developers of Buckhead Atlanta (formerly called Streets of Buckhead), is moving forward with construction for the mixed-use development on land it has owned since June, 2011. McMillian filed two permits with City of Atlanta Thursday for “land development” at the Buckhead project. Between the two permits filed, developing the land the project occupies, will cost an estimated $15,324,292.






http://whatnowatlanta.com/2012/02/09/dev...ending-15-million-to-begin-construction/