Ponce City Market residents and visitors won’t just be able to play miniature golf on the massive building’s roof. They'll also be able to partake in a good old fashioned game of skee ball, dine in the former Sears building’s iconic tower, or host a private party in a rooftop event facility, according to an interview in alt weekly, Creative Loafing, with Jamestown Properties president, Michael Phillips.
Jamestown, the firm developing the 1.1 million square-foot mixed-use behemoth, says the
nearly 5-acre “magic rooftop” —
half of which will be open to the public — will center on nostalgic amusement games and carnival rides you’d find while eating cotton candy along boardwalks during the early 20th century. Think more old-school merry-go-rounds than Six Flags Over Georgia’s Ninja. Visitors will be transported to the roof via the circa 1926 building's original freight elevator.The rooftop needs to be an experience of kind of exhaling for people, and energizing in a way,” he says. “There aren’t so many of those things in our lives anymore - to stand on a great big rooftop in the sky affording us a landscape that’s almost like a mountain range [offering views of] all the different high-rise nodes, from Downtown to Midtown and Buckhead.”
Making that happen requires some work, including making sure the roof can accommodate the large numbers of people expected to mill about and frolic. Phillips says the team is aiming for a spring 2016 opening, although it could potentially open in fall 2015 for the holidays.
[*]PCM’s food hall is 60-percent leased, Phillips says, adding that the team has tried to be particular about creating the right mix of options.
[*]More than half of the fashion and lifestyle retail spaces have been claimed, Phillips says. In addition to the tenants already announced — AthenaHealth, MailChimp General Assembly, H&F Burger, Juice Box, and the Suzuki School — more are on the way. Jamestown is waiting until late November to make a “big announcement” about other tenants. Until then, the team will lock down construction preparation timelines and opening dates.
[*]The residential component, known as the Flats, is roughly 35-percent leased. That figure is around what Jamestown expected at this time, he says. The first tenant will get their keys the beginning of next month and others will start calling it home before the year's end.
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