ATLANTA | Development Thread V

[SteveD]

Originally Posted by bigstick

Exactly, I live in Va Highland, and their are so many homes that are tearing down, remodeling, etc, it is astounding. This goes for Morningside, Ansley Park, Sherwood Forest, and Brookwood Hills. I am sure that their are others though.

East Atlanta too. Quite a few new construction houses and countless renovations.

[Atlwest281]

Yeah I live in East Atlanta and their is a ton of remodeling and tear down and rebuilds happening also its tarting to creep in to the section of Gresham Park close to East Atlanta. Lots of vast potential and pent up demand over here.

[micropundit]

Ten firms have applied to provide architectural and design services for the proposed retractable stadium to replace the Georgia Dome, according to Falcons and Georgia World Congress Center documents.

The Atlanta Falcons Stadium Company, LLC, and the Georgia World Congress Center Authority recently issued a Request for Qualifications for Architectural and Design Services for the proposed new stadium project:

Center documents, are:

*360 Architecture

*AECOM

*Eisenman Architects

*Ewing Cole

*HKS Inc.

*Populous

*RGC Stadium Design

*Rosetti

*TVS Design/Heery/Gensler

*Woods Bagot











http://www.11alive.com/news/article/270485/40/10-firms-apply-to-design-new-Falcons-stadium

[clexmond]

Originally Posted by bigstick

Exactly, I live in Va Highland, and their are so many homes that are tearing down, remodeling, etc, it is astounding. This goes for Morningside, Ansley Park, Sherwood Forest, and Brookwood Hills. I am sure that their are others though.

Absolutely. I'm seeing the same thing in the Midtown neighborhood. The handyman I use told me he's been getting more and more business over the last 6 months or so.

[ChrisInmanPark]

A nice article about the Krog Street Market Development.

http://www.atlantaintownpaper.com/2013/01/food-driven-krog-street-market-on-the-way/

Looks like there are going to be apartments built at the corner of Edgewood and Krog. This could really help to activate this corner. I just hope those old, but very cool abandoned buildings at that corner could get re-purposed as well.

[ATLaffinity]

Originally Posted by bigstick

Exactly, I live in Va Highland, and their are so many homes that are tearing down, remodeling, etc, it is astounding.

Where is that money coming from??? There are people who I absolutely know have less earned income than we do and they are adding on levels to their homes. I think a lot of this money is inherited. Either that or they were lucky enough to buy before the housing bubble and so have a ton of equity in their homes.

[jpk1292000]

Originally Posted by ATLaffinity

Where is that money coming from??? There are people who I absolutely know have less earned income than we do and they are adding on levels to their homes. I think a lot of this money is inherited. Either that or they were lucky enough to buy before the housing bubble and so have a ton of equity in their homes.

Alot of it is inherited. There's a lot of inherited money in Atlanta (and any large city, for that matter). Quite a bit different from the small, working class city I grew up in. Frustrating, in some ways too.

[micropundit]

Georgia State University is planning a nine story building to become part of its downtown science park. Georgia State is seeking bids for the more than 65,000-square-foot building along Decatur Street next to its Petit Science Center.

The project’s preliminary budget is roughly $19.9 million, according to the state. Design and professional fees would be about $1.8 million.

Bids are due Jan 8. Construction is scheduled to start in February and be completed in May 2013.
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/real_talk/2013/01/new-gsu-science-building-planned.html

[ChrisInmanPark]

Looks like those apartments proposed at Terminus in Buckhead are finally ready to begin construction.

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/...?ana=e_du_pap&s=article_du&ed=2013-01-02

Here are more pictures and renderings.

http://livablebuckhead.com/circle-terminus/

http://www.atlantaskyriseblog.com/2012/0...partments-on-remaining-land-at-terminus/

[ChrisInmanPark]

Originally Posted by micropundit

Georgia State University is planning a nine story building to become part of its downtown science park. Georgia State is seeking bids for the more than 65,000-square-foot building along Decatur Street next to its Petit Science Center.

The project’s preliminary budget is roughly $19.9 million, according to the state. Design and professional fees would be about $1.8 million.

Bids are due Jan 8. Construction is scheduled to start in February and be completed in May 2013.
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/real_talk/2013/01/new-gsu-science-building-planned.html

This is great news and an empty lot will be filled! But I think they had a typo. No way construction will start in February and be finish in May 2013. It would be awesome if they could build a 9 story building in 3 months! I bet they meant to say May 2014.

[testarossa50]

Very nice!

GSU has earned downtown three significant projects going on right now:

- The Law School (~9 floors, adjacent to Woodruff Park)
- Rehab of the old hotel on Dobbs, with new residential tower (private-sector student apartments)
- New Science Center (Decatur @ Jesse Hill Jr)

Three holes in downtown getting filled! There are countless more, of course, but every little helps.

[Dale]

GSU is the anti-George Sherman. It's relentlessly building Atlanta up.

[micropundit]

Come November, a new Inman Park venture called "Krog Street Market" should be fully operational in Tyler Perry's former soundstages at the corner of Lake Avenue and Krog Street, Atlanta INtown reports. The market is one facet of a $70 million project that abuts the Atlanta Beltline; two unnamed restaurants have reportedly signed letters of intent, with more interested. Project leader Paces Properties' Vice President George Banks told the newspaper: "There will be no national brands or chains ... We're actively seeking local restaurateurs and local farmers to make this space truly a neighborhood market.

http://www.atlantaintownpaper.com/2013/01/food-driven-krog-street-market-on-the-way/

[ATLaffinity]

Originally Posted by micropundit

Come November, a new Inman Park venture called "Krog Street Market" should be fully operational in Tyler Perry's former soundstages at the corner of Lake Avenue and Krog Street, Atlanta INtown reports. The market is one facet of a $70 million project that abuts the Atlanta Beltline; two unnamed restaurants have reportedly signed letters of intent, with more interested. Project leader Paces Properties' Vice President George Banks told the newspaper: "There will be no national brands or chains ... We're actively seeking local restaurateurs and local farmers to make this space truly a neighborhood market.

http://www.atlantaintownpaper.com/2013/01/food-driven-krog-street-market-on-the-way/

Just to be a Grinch, the faux signage and flourishes proposed for PCM and this project drive me nuts. I love these renovations, but it's 2012. We don't need ye olde iron signs and Dickensian street lamps unless they were original to the site.

I love the project though. Perfectly placed on the Beltline.

[Zanarkand A East]

Originally Posted by oldpainless

Hey I'm all for building MARTA into the suburbs. I voted for TSPLOST as most of you did and I wanted a light rail line in Cobb County (where I live). If a stadium was built closer to the fans then absolutely there should be a MARTA line serving it. Central Perimeter seems the logical choice for building a new Falcons or MLS stadium. Its centrally located, has excellent highway access, has a MARTA line, and is closer to the fan base. I read a while back that the center of population in Metro Atlanta is actually very close to where Perimeter Mall is (and has slowly creeped northward for the past several decades), so technically Perimeter Center is the current "center" of Atlanta as far as population goes. I don't think we should fight the growth trends and stubbornly locate a new stadium downtown. Atlanta is constantly evolving and changing. The location of the new stadium should reflect the growth vectors.

As for the Hawks, they are having an outstanding season thus far (1 game behind the Heat) so naturally fans will turn out in big numbers when the team is playing well. But what about average years? Have the Hawks (or any Atlanta professional team) historically had high attendance? No way. In fact Atlanta has a national reputation for average to poor game attendance. Talk to a Phillies fan about the Braves "high" attendance and they'll laugh at you. Philly sold out every home game for like 4 years straight. The Braves average about half of Turner Field every night despite having played excellent ball for the past 3 years. Thats not as bad as say Miami, but its not great and you shouldn't settle for that either.

Having the stadium "near the fans" means keeping it downtown. Downtown is more central than any other part of the metro, just ask anyone that doesn't live in Gwinnett or Cobb.

Atlanta's national fan support image is overblown, since the national media doesn't take into account how bad traffic is here for a weekday Braves game. For a city our size, with our pro sports selection, lack of transit options, and one title in 50 damn years, our attendance is reasonable. Other towns with better attendance often have better access to the venues, teams that have been there twice as long, much larger populations, and histories of winning over decades and decades. The sports venues will stay downtown, and we'll be fine as a sports town.

[Zanarkand A East]

Originally Posted by simms3_redux

Can we also mention the fact that the only neighborhoods that have seen appreciation over the past decade have been Virginia Highland, Grant Park, and East Lake? To me if there were any areas or neighborhoods to NOT throw any money at in the metro, they would all be suburban. The potential and upside in Atlanta are found in the central core.

In fact, there are reasons why there is almost no new housing and no new apartments being built outside of the perimeter, and one of those reasons is due to the undesirability of living so far from "the center" and fighting the traffic to get into "the center", which is not, nor will ever be Perimeter.

THANK YOU!!! It's called Perimeter for a reason!!

[kamden99]

The old Loca Luna space along 6th Street between Peachtree & Juniper is currently being demolished and now has construction fencing around it.

Novare's next cookie cutter tower (ugly parking deck and all) should be completed by the end of the year!

[micropundit]

http://clatl.com/omnivore/archives/2013/...a-cannabis-friendly-coffee-shop-and-more

[trainiac]

Originally Posted by micropundit

http://clatl.com/omnivore/archives/2013/...a-cannabis-friendly-coffee-shop-and-more

I'll always remember the first time I ever went in there. On a date back around 1998 and we're sitting at the bar when Mr. Luna comes out stark naked with a plate over his junk. She'd been there many times before, so was totally blasé, but I was like "not quite ready for midtown". This was when Backstreets was going big time just around the corner. Quite the scene between 6th & 7th -- not to mention the Stein Club

[bigstick]

^^^^^^^ I am all for having a new tower go up. It is sad to witness though. I really had some good times in that complex with the Armory and Backstreet back in the 70s and 80s, time does fly, amazing.