ATLANTA | Development Thread V - Page 749

jpk1292000 · #**14961** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 12:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by ATL_J

Hot new project... Morningstar is converting the building at 1795 Peachtree Street NE into one of their mini-storage facilities.

Holy ****! Biggest news since the announcement that the Bank of America tower was under construction.

cabasse · #**14962** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 12:59 PM**

ridiculously ugly building and bad urbanism. last stop before it gets torn down, one can only hope...

arctk2014 · #**14963** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 2:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/...id-moving-corporate-hq-to-peachtree.html

So they are apparently moving their headquarters to an existing building, but it also says in the article Perkins + Will is designing the new HQ building so I guess it will be tore down and a new building in its place

http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/17684360/6655-Peachtree-Dunwoody-Road-Atlanta-GA/
Is the current building where they will be building their new HQ

Something tells me Perkins + Will will be doing the corporate interiors- not a redesigned new office building. This is a downsize for Newell-Rubbermaid into an existing office building if they're looking at a move in 2016.

Perkins+Will did their previous interiors.

http://perkinswill.com/work/newell-rubbermaid.html

GeorgiaPeanuts · #**14964** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 2:46 PM**

Hmm, I see; That is unfortunate cause the existing building is plain jane.

I noticed on my commute on MARTA that construction is ramping up for the connection from Dunwoody station to the new Start Farm HQ. You can also see it sorta on the construction cam http://oxblue.com/open/kdc/statefarmatl.
They added scaffolding around the northbound portion of the track with space for the train to pass through.

RocketSurgeon · #**14965** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 3:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

I noticed on my commute on MARTA that construction is ramping up for theThey added scaffolding around the northbound portion of the track with space for the train to pass through.

Hopefully that was done by a different crew than the scaffolding at Three Alliance Center...

GeorgiaPeanuts · #**14966** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 3:23 PM**

They had more pics of the HQ model for NCR in our newsletter; I think it makes it look more palatable. I wonder why they didn't have these in the media release.

forj · #**14967** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 4:03 PM**

wow those are way better pictures. honestly i think it looks really nice.. originally wasnt so sure.. and while we all like tall stuff, you cant expect them to build tall for no reason... this will be a great fit for that spot i think. i really like the Spring st. side

ATLcubs · #**14968** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 4:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

They had more pics of the HQ model for NCR in our newsletter; I think it makes it look more palatable. I wonder why they didn't have these in the media release.

Seeing how big the base is, the tower portion might look a little stubbier than it actually is. With the base being 4 or 5 stories and the tower being ~28, I think it will end up as a nice addition to both the midtown skyline and the street. Just my 2 cents.

Atlanta3000 · #**14969** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 4:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by ATLcubs

Seeing how big the base is, the tower portion might look a little stubbier than it actually is. With the base being 4 or 5 stories and the tower being ~28, I think it will end up as a nice addition to both the midtown skyline and the street. Just my 2 cents.

I've tried counting the number of floors from all sides and the most I see is 21 - 22 floors.

micropundit · #**14970** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 4:45 PM**

The plaza that abuts the Spring Street sidewalk will include seating areas, ipe wood decking, vertical charging stations and modern-day techie bait like a "decorative Ping-Pong table," a bocce court and life-size chess board.

http://atlanta.curbed.com/archives/2015/...-light-on-midtowns-squatty-icon.php#more

gttx · #**14971** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 4:47 PM**

Looks a lot like Cira Centre in Philadelphia.

thepope117 · #**14972** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 5:50 PM**

phase 2 of the NCR campus will probably be in the neighborhood of 700k sf if they stick with the 1.2 million sf they said in the beginning.

Atlanta3000 · #**14973** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 6:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by gttx

Looks a lot like Cira Centre in Philadelphia.

It's almost identical to the Vanir Tower in Sacramento.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=214633

Atlanta3000 · #**14974** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 7:56 PM**

Top Reason Buckhead and Midtown Will Be the Growth Center of Atlanta During This Economic Cycle

Our biggest competitor, Sandy Springs, has shut it's door to growth for the foreseeable future. This is huge news for growth in the city!!!

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Sandy Springs City Council put a 180-day moratorium on many new rezoning applications on July 21—the same night it dealt with major rezonings on Roswell Road and the Glenridge Connector.

The six-month moratorium affects rezonings for apartments, commercial, business, office or mixed-use classifications.

http://www.reporternewspapers.net/2015/07/22/sandy-springs-puts-6-month-hold-on-rezoning-requests/

boomtown · #**14975** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 8:05 PM**

Anyone have links to construction cams to some of the midtown towers that have recently broken ground? I have the ones for One Museum Place and Atlantic House.....

Triptychtwo · #**14976** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 8:22 PM**

811 Peachtree update

Plan coordination was finally approved today and so it's ready to go!

Record LD-201400037:
Multi Family Land Development

Record Status: Ready to Issue

daharris80 · #**14977** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 8:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Atlanta3000

Top Reason Buckhead and Midtown Will Be the Growth Center of Atlanta During This Economic Cycle

Our biggest competitor, Sandy Springs, has shut it's door to growth for the foreseeable future. This is huge news for growth in the city!!!

http://www.reporternewspapers.net/2015/07/22/sandy-springs-puts-6-month-hold-on-rezoning-requests/

Several thoughts:

1. Your comment assumes that all development in Sandy Springs requires rezoning. There is currently zoning in place to allow for a great deal of future development. This moratorium only applies to rezoning requests.

2. A 6 month moratorium will not have such a massive impact on long term development proposals that it would result in a change in the "growth center' for this "economic cycle."

3. Perimeter Center and/or Cobb Galleria (i.e. the "Northern Suburbs") are not necessarily direct competitors with Midtown and Buckhead. Each of these locations attracts developers/companies for different reasons.

4. Sandy Springs is only one of several locations outside of Midtown and Buckhead that attract development. To the extent this moratorium has any impact (which I doubt it will) those developments that would have looked to Sandy Springs are likely to shift to Dunwoody or the Cobb Galleria for the same reasons that they were looking at Sandy Springs in the first place and not Buckhead and Midtown.

5. You seem to suggest that that Midtown is not already the "growth center" for this economic cycle. Despite very impressive growth in Buckhead, Perimeter Center and Cobb, it would be hard to argue at this time that Midtown and its convergence of a technology community, student housing, general demand from millennials, and transit is not already Atlanta's premier growth center.

Atlanta3000 · #**14978** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 9:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by daharris80

Several thoughts:

1. Your comment assumes that all development in Sandy Springs requires rezoning. There is currently zoning in place to allow for a great deal of future development. This moratorium only applies to rezoning requests.

2. A 6 month moratorium will not have such a massive impact on long term development proposals that it would result in a change in the "growth center' for this "economic cycle."

3. Perimeter Center and/or Cobb Galleria (i.e. the "Northern Suburbs") are not necessarily direct competitors with Midtown and Buckhead. Each of these locations attracts developers/companies for different reasons.

4. Sandy Springs is only one of several locations outside of Midtown and Buckhead that attract development. To the extent this moratorium has any impact (which I doubt it will) those developments that would have looked to Sandy Springs are likely to shift to Dunwoody or the Cobb Galleria for the same reasons that they were looking at Sandy Springs in the first place and not Buckhead and Midtown.

5. You seem to suggest that that Midtown is not already the "growth center" for this economic cycle. Despite very impressive growth in Buckhead, Perimeter Center and Cobb, it would be hard to argue at this time that Midtown and its convergence of a technology community, student housing, general demand from millennials, and transit is not already Atlanta's premier growth center.

I am not a zoning expert, or city planner for than matter, so you are correct there. Here are my uneducated thoughts from a curious follower of economic development:

This is not the first time Sandy Springs has done this is recent memory - http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/real_...prings-halts-new-apartment-projects.html
Most major corporate relocations and high tech companies want to be by mass transit and in mixed-use developments. This eliminates Cobb, Gwinnett and parts of Alpharetta.
Sandy Springs' CBD (Perimeter Mall area) is zoned for office or retail, not mixed-use (except recent some developments).
Ashton Woods, the Mercedes development site, wanted to include 399 apartments as part of the project and the zoning committee would only approve 199 and even then the residents were protesting. Keep in mind this site is right off 400 and is close to MARTA.

daharris80 · #**14979** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 10:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by Atlanta3000

[*]This is not the first time Sandy Springs has done this is recent memory - http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/real_...prings-halts-new-apartment-projects.html[/LIST]

I think that reinforces what I was saying. This moratorium will have little impact. There was some sort of prior moratorium yet Sandy Springs landed the Mercedes relocation, etc...

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Originally Posted by Atlanta3000

[*]Most major corporate relocations and high tech companies want to be by mass transit and in mixed-use developments. This eliminates Cobb, Gwinnett and parts of Alpharetta.[/LIST]

Half of the Perimeter Center District is in Dunwoody. This includes the area where State Farm is relocating. Additional land is available near the Dunwoody station and is actively being marketed. There is plenty of space available for development in the Perimeter Center near transit to which this moratorium will have no impact.

cokezero · #**14980** Posted **Jul 23, 2015, 10:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by Atlanta3000

I am not a zoning expert, or city planner for than matter, so you are correct there. Here are my uneducated thoughts from a curious follower of economic development:

This is not the first time Sandy Springs has done this is recent memory - http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/real_...prings-halts-new-apartment-projects.html
Most major corporate relocations and high tech companies want to be by mass transit and in mixed-use developments. This eliminates Cobb, Gwinnett and parts of Alpharetta.
Sandy Springs' CBD (Perimeter Mall area) is zoned for office or retail, not mixed-use (except recent some developments).
Ashton Woods, the Mercedes development site, wanted to include 399 apartments as part of the project and the zoning committee would only approve 199 and even then the residents were protesting. Keep in mind this site is right off 400 and is close to MARTA.

Just to clarify, the majority of the Perimeter Mall area is actually in the City of Dunwoody.