ATLANTA | Development Thread V

[ATLaffinity]

^ Just saw a page of the most expensive stadiums ever built and their MetLife Stadium was at the top of the list.

One thing that caught my attention was that Soldiers Field (Chicago) and Rogers Centre (Toronto) are not surrounded by an ocean of asphalt. So it doesn't have to be like that but I'm sure it will be in Atlanta.

http://www.totalprosports.com/2011/10/27/11-most-expensive-stadiums-in-the-world/

[Shayan Panjwani]

Hello everyone!
Here's a picture I took from the 21st floor (east face) of Viewpoint. The progress of 100 6th street is really coming along! I really hope the development really opens up Juniper as a more pedestrian friendly street in Atlanta.

[AtlantaMustang]

Originally Posted by Shayan Panjwani

Hello everyone!
Here's a picture I took from the 21st floor (east face) of Viewpoint. The progress of 100 6th street is really coming along! I really hope the development really opens up Juniper as a more pedestrian friendly street in Atlanta.

Great first post! Welcome to the forum. Look forward to more updates from you. Agreed. Juniper has served as a back door to Peachtree, but has a lot of great somewhat smaller scale buildings that relate really well to the street. I hope Skyhouse's deck retail can further this instead of becoming a killer of street life like a typical deck. Plus adding over 300 residential units certainly won't hurt walkability.

[nature's calling]

Curbed Atlanta did a great interview with a representative of James Properties regarding the progress of Ponce City Market.

http://atlanta.curbed.com/archives/2013/04/18/ponce-city-market-what-you-probably-dont-know.php

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, but Ford Fry and Guy Wong have signed leases at the Krog Street Market. Fry plans to open a Tex-Mex restaurant sometime next year, while Wong's Japanese concept is projected to open by the fall.

http://www.tonetoatl.com/2013/03/like-boss-guy-wong-opening-two-new.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print...ns-new-restaurant-in-inman.html?page=all

[mayhem]

Originally Posted by micropundit

A Kansas City-based architecture firm that designed a new home for New York’s two NFL teams is the top choice to design Atlanta’s new retractable-roof stadium.

Sad that we chose a firm that isn't from Atlanta.

[micropundit]

An Atlanta landmark known for its lascivious lounge will be reborn as a classy hotel.

The Clermont Hotel near Midtown could reopen next year. Plans were filed in early April to transform the abandoned brick building into a 98-room boutique hotel.Plans include a 3,000-square-foot, full-service restaurant, lobby lounge and rooftop bar with views of Midtown and downtown. A parking structure will be built behind the hotel and an existing house along Bonaventure Avenue will be renovated, possibly for meeting space.The project joins a growing list of efforts along Ponce de Leon Avenue, one of the city’s most colorful corridors that’s become a hot spot for urban redevelopment.

“It’s going to happen — we are definitely protecting a landmark building and participating in the revitalization of the corridor,” said Michael Gamble, principal of G+G Architects.The Midtown Atlanta architecture firm, founded in 1992, will lead the hotel design.
The plan is to create an elegant and authentic hotel that can co-exist with the Clermont Lounge, Atlanta’s oldest and perhaps most memorable strip club, which has attracted famous visitors from Robert De Niro to Conan O’Brien. The lounge will keep its lease and operate separately from the hotel, according to plans.Renovations on the hotel are expected to start this fall. Construction could be complete in 12 months, or around fall 2014.A process to rezone the property just began, and efforts will be made to secure federal and state historic designations.


http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/04/19/clermont-to-be-reborn-as-upscale.html

[TarHeelJ]

Originally Posted by ATLaffinity

^ Just saw a page of the most expensive stadiums ever built and their MetLife Stadium was at the top of the list.

One thing that caught my attention was that Soldiers Field (Chicago) and Rogers Centre (Toronto) are not surrounded by an ocean of asphalt. So it doesn't have to be like that but I'm sure it will be in Atlanta.

Has the Georgia Dome area ever been surrounded by an "ocean of asphalt"? Not to my knowledge it hasn't, so there is no need to think the new stadium will be either. We have great transit connections to the stadium area and a plethora of understreet parking. It seems like we're pretty set with that situation.

[briantech]

Yeah there is really only a couple large parking lots near the current dome ... and the biggest one is going to be ripped up to put the new stadium.

[A-town]

The crane is up at Crescent Terminus




Website: http://www.crescentterminus.com/
Webcam: http://oxblue.com/open/CrescentTerminus

[testarossa50]

Hopefully that development can tie together that network of backalleys into something more appealing than it currently is. It just looks extremely thrown-together at the moment.

[NYbyWAYofGA]

Originally Posted by testarossa50

Hopefully that development can tie together that network of backalleys into something more appealing than it currently is. It just looks extremely thrown-together at the moment.

I was thinking the exact same thing!

[nature's calling]

Dad's Garage will be moving to 7 Stages in Little Five Points. I would assume this means that construction on the 280 Elizabeth project will begin soon.

http://www.atlantamagazine.com/agenda/20...inesses-ousted-from-inman-park-locations

[bryantm3]

Originally Posted by NYbyWAYofGA

I was thinking the exact same thing!

ditto. as soon as you get off peachtree or piedmont, there is zero urbanity, just a series of parking lots and decks, it's absolutely horrid. i was looking at google maps the other day to try and figure out how they could modify that half-moon shaped area between peachtree and lenox road. it really needs cross streets and street-level retail. i had this idea for a multiple story parking deck where the entrance would be here:

http://goo.gl/maps/CG1Aq

the top story would be at peachtree street level, and instead of a continuation of the parking deck, it would appear just like street level, with streets going between the buildings and new street-level retail on the upper level. it would be sort of like downtown atlanta's viaduct system, except the streets would be raised to accommodate a parking deck rather than rail.

[briantech]

Originally Posted by bryantm3

ditto. as soon as you get off peachtree or piedmont, there is zero urbanity, just a series of parking lots and decks, it's absolutely horrid. i was looking at google maps the other day to try and figure out how they could modify that half-moon shaped area between peachtree and lenox road. it really needs cross streets and street-level retail. i had this idea for a multiple story parking deck where the entrance would be here:

http://goo.gl/maps/CG1Aq

the top story would be at peachtree street level, and instead of a continuation of the parking deck, it would appear just like street level, with streets going between the buildings and new street-level retail on the upper level. it would be sort of like downtown atlanta's viaduct system, except the streets would be raised to accommodate a parking deck rather than rail.

So kind of like atlantic station

[NYbyWAYofGA]

Originally Posted by briantech

So kind of like atlantic station

I kinda thought the same thing.

[jnihiser]

[micropundit]

MARTA is marching ahead with plans to redevelop about 4 acres next to its King Memorial station.

MARTA will test developers’ appetite for the project in May when it issues a request for qualifications. MARTA’s board of directors approved the step at its April 22 meeting.

During roughly the next two months, MARTA planning officials would take an initial list of potential developers of the King Memorial site, and their ideas, and pare it down to the most likely candidates.grown over the past decade. MARTA could also consider other uses for the King Memorial site.

King Memorial serves Georgia State University, The Sweet Auburn Historic District, and communities around Oakland Cemetery. MARTA wants to involve those stakeholders in the redevelopment discussions .
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/real_...dies-rfqs-for-king-memorial.html?s=print

[Shayan Panjwani]

Is there any update as to what Dewberry intends to do with their parcel of land on Peachtree St.? I really liked the idea of Peachtree Square, but haven't heard much about it in quite some time.

[joecool]

Originally Posted by Shayan Panjwani

Is there any update as to what Dewberry intends to do with their parcel of land on Peachtree St.? I really liked the idea of Peachtree Square, but haven't heard much about it in quite some time.

Which one? There is Midtown Sqaure, The Ansley and a few others on P'tree. I'd like to know what's going with those too.

[Sketching]

Here are two construction updates from this past Sunday that show work is progressing with the College Football Hall of Fame and the Civil Rights Museum.
I shot these two photos from the Sundial.

College Football Hall of Fame
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Civil Rights Museum - best I could get of this one with Museum Tower partially blocking the view.
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