ATLANTA | Development Thread V

[SwimAtl]

Originally Posted by Immovable_Media

I was there back on the 10th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9bIrApWAjA
when site preparation was beginning. RIP Johnsons Fine Offices

Next door, the Gulf Oil Building may not be I.M. Pei's most beautiful, but it was his 1st. Built in 1949, a 50,000 square feet two-story "box that invoked the lean rectilinearity of "Mies van der Rohe." I'm stoked part will be saved!

I wonder what will become of the church on the corner of Piedmont and Ponce?

I'm also really happy it will be saved! We tear down so much here. And I agree, although not his best work, it has authentic significance being his first. ...It seems like the last design I saw (of the new development going around the Pei building) was supposed to be modified - anyone have a final rendering?

OZ1970 - I couldn't find the old rendering of that building but I remember it. Loved it - had a contemporary copper-like top that related to its neighbor (One Atlantic Center, formally the IBM tower).

[micropundit]

Five architecture firms were announced Monday as finalists on the Georgia Procurement Registry:
360 Architects
Ewing-Cole
HKS Inc.
Populous + Shop
Tvsdesign/Heery/Gensler
Each finalist will now prepare a Design Services Proposal and formal presentation that will include the first conceptual designs for the project,” the Georgia World Congress Center Authority said in a statement. “Interviews will be scheduled in the next 30 days.”

A decision on a lead architect could come in February. “However, the schedule for the remaining process is still to be determined,” Richard Sawyer, project procurement director, said in an email.

Design fees could command 6 percent to 11 percent of the approximately $700 million construction budget, Sawyer said in an earlier interview.

The new stadium could be up to 1.8 million square feet, with seating for up to 80,000 fans. It would be built to meet the standards of the NFL, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Major League Soccer and the Fédération Internationale de Football







http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2013/01/28/architect-finalists-for-new-falcons.html

[shivtim]

Work begins on College Football Hall of Fame site

Atlanta Hall Management, the non-profit entity formed to build and operate the college football shrine here, took control of the Georgia World Congress Center’s now-closed “Green” parking lot last week and started work on the site... heavy-equipment work will start around mid-February on the site, which is across Marietta Street from Centennial Olympic Park. The 95,000-square-foot, $66.5-million attraction is scheduled to be completed in August 2014.

[GNofAtlanta]

Originally Posted by shivtim

Work begins on College Football Hall of Fame site

Doesn't the construction of the CFHOF also include a new entrance to GWCC?

[Mikeuke]

Originally Posted by ChadK

Actually this building is set back quite a ways from the street, close to the existing parking structure. I was kinda disappointed in that. But it's still a great looking that will help to improve the look of 10th street. Just not so much the in the urban sense. Harumph.

I live right next to this and walk by it a lot. All of the sidewalk from the interstate to the presidents mansion on tenth street (mccamish pavilion / ken byars tennis complex) has been redone in the new "GT standard sidewalk" that has also been applied to north ave and fowler in the past year. This means great looking brick sidewalks with continuously maintained landscaping and beautiful lamp posts. This also means secuirty cameras and emergency help areas. The strip of tenth street in front of this new building will have the same layout as this. It will look great and wide open from building to street with a nice green space / gathering space / walking trails in between as denoted in the rendering.

Eventually this sidewalk style will extend all the way down tenth and connect to the tennis complex, and hence the interstate. There are two lots in the way: the one next to it (small maintenence building) is likely to become another building in the biotech campus in the next 5-10 years. The other one... The presidents house. I love GT and all, and the presidents house is nice, but that giant wall really puts a damper on potentially opening up tenth street west of the interstate.

Tear it down!

[RudyJK]

Originally Posted by Mikeuke

This also means security cameras and emergency help areas. The strip of tenth street in front of this new building will have the same layout as this.

It's a sad commentary on life in the city, not to mention a college campus, when we get excited that new sidewalks are built with features that help protect citizens from thugs and miscreants. I imagine that some of the GT and GSU students must feel that they are under siege at times.

Doesn't that wall serve a retaining function; there is a grade behind it that would have to be leveled should the wall come down. But I understand what you mean about the aesthetics of it.

[micropundit]

The former Roosevelt House site on Tech's campus will become a mixed-use student housing complex, according to Tech's Michael Black.He says that the school's plans for a 11-story complex ,with up to 500 beds, which will include street-level retail—is still in design.

The comments were made at a real estate development conference in Atlanta this morning.


http://www.bisnow.com/commercial-real-estate/atlanta/new-hotel-tax-for-sports-arena/

[shivtim]

100 6th Street (23 story apartment tower, 300 units) has officially broken ground.

http://midtown.patch.com/articles/100-6th-street-breaks-ground-thursday

[forj]

Originally Posted by micropundit

The former Roosevelt House site on Tech's campus will become a mixed-use student housing complex, according to Tech's Michael Black.He says that the school's plans for a 11-story complex ,with up to 500 beds, which will include street-level retail—is still in design.

The comments were made at a real estate development conference in Atlanta this morning.


http://www.bisnow.com/commercial-real-estate/atlanta/new-hotel-tax-for-sports-arena/

very interesting - i like the sound of that

[BlueSangha]

[QUOTE=shivtim;5996594]100 6th Street (23 story apartment tower, 300 units) has officially broken ground.

Yay! More cookie cutter Novare! BTW, thanx for another parking deck...ugh!

[TarHeelJ]

Originally Posted by BlueSangha

Yay! More cookie cutter Novare! BTW, thanx for another parking deck...ugh!

Yeah, every city with a dense skyline has them...bring it on!

[ChadK]

Small project, but a positive impact on the ponce de leon / monroe area of midtown. http://midtown.patch.com/articles/ponce-property

[forj]

Originally Posted by ChadK

Small project, but a positive impact on the ponce de leon / monroe area of midtown. http://midtown.patch.com/articles/ponce-property

that is fantastic news! if only the rest of that intersection had a similar character to this little strip of store-fronts. that is a seriously depressing intersection with the gas stations on two corners and the title pawn/check cashing place that takes up way too much space on the other corner

seriously - these guys need to buy out the lot on the corner across the street and build a similar development there, street facing.. the other corners are spoken for with the gas station and the new bank - but it would vastly improve things

[bigstick]

[QUOTE=BlueSangha;5996667]

Originally Posted by shivtim

100 6th Street (23 story apartment tower, 300 units) has officially broken ground.

Yay! More cookie cutter Novare! BTW, thanx for another parking deck...ugh!

I think it is actually a good looking complex..............

[simms3_redux]

SkyHouse Midtown 42% leased 1 month after opening, by my calculations per information from its own website. Will update as time goes on. 1 BRs are leasing the fastest, but seem to be leasing at smaller rents ($2.01psf) than the other configurations offered. Seems to me that either their website is not updated (and it's not like they post the actual lease terms on their website for public view) or they need to raise rents on 1 BRs. I think I've seen the proforma, and let's just say I'm guessing Novare/UBS are both very pleased with performance to date, which is likely why I think they moved the timetable forward on 100 6th.

Let's say including pre-leasing it took 60 days to get to 42%. If momentum continues, then it should take less than 5 months to stabilize. Wow. The 2 lower floors each account for roughly 5% of rental revenue, and therefore economic occupancy, and will probably be the most difficult to lease. Right now only 3 out of 18 "Sharehouses" appear to be leased up, which is actually better performance than on the building's lowest standard floorplates (only 1 unit on floor 4 is leased, 3 out of 16 on floor 5).

There is nothing secret about the information presented below...just created a little spreadsheet that self-updates based on the information found here:

http://skyhousemidtown.com/floor-plans/

Since I've posted it appears a unit on floor 2 (aka 3BR) leased.

[joecool]

Originally Posted by shivtim

100 6th Street (23 story apartment tower, 300 units) has officially broken ground.

http://midtown.patch.com/articles/100-6th-street-breaks-ground-thursday

Is there a skycam on oxblue yet?

[bigstick]

Originally Posted by joecool

Is there a skycam on oxblue yet?

Honestly, this is a great addition to Midtown's ever increasing density.

[nature's calling]

Fuqua's design of the Glenwood project has been rejected, again.

http://eastatlanta.patch.com/articles/ci...-rejects-glenwood-project-proposal-again

http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2013...for-retail-center-along-atlanta-beltline

[cabasse]

^bwahaha! that's great news.

[atlantaguy]

Originally Posted by cabasse

^bwahaha! that's great news.

It totally is, Tim! Now smacked down at Lindbergh AND Glenwood.

This asshole has no plan to conform to any neighborhoods desire unless he is absolutely forced to by the City. Now we can only hope the City doesn't cave just for the potential tax revenue, although I can see multiple lawsuits filed if that would be the case - as it would have been if Lindbergh had been approved. Peachtree Hills was itching for a battle with him.

Wow, have we all become NIMBY's? LOL!

If so, I wear the label proudly in these two instances.