ULI has announced the selection of an area in Atlanta’s Midtown neighborhood as the study site in the 14th annual ULI Hines Student Competition. The ideas competition provides both full- and part-time graduate-level student teams the opportunity to devise a comprehensive design and development program for parts of a real, large-scale site. The team with the winning proposal, which will be selected in April, will receive $50,000.
The 2016 competition, which kicks off this week, gives each team of five students 15 days to design and submit a master-plan proposal that includes presentation boards with drawings, site plans, tables, and market-feasible financial data. Teams must be multidisciplinary, reflecting at least three different urban design and development disciplines.
The competition is based on a hypothetical situation in which key area landowners have reached out to owners of smaller parcels and have come together as a group with a common strategy supporting the vision for building mixed-use sustainable and vibrant neighborhoods. Under the competition scenario, this group, dubbed the Midtown South Development Partnership, has selected the student team as master developer to design a vision that creates a comprehensive environment that is programmed, designed, built, and operated with all the elements necessary to promote a successful, sustainable mixed-use experience for its residents, workers, and visitors.
In this competition scenario, teams are tasked with transforming this transitional area and completing the vision for Midtown Atlanta—as a thriving sustainable, mixed-use, walkable, and transit-accessible neighborhood—by taking advantage of the site’s proximity to downtown and Technology Square, its adjacency to Peachtree Street and public transportation, and its strong regional access. The landowners are seeking a master development proposal that includes an understanding of the market and nonmarket factors at play in building such a neighborhood and explores the value proposition of building and operating with this long-term vision.
http://urbanland.uli.org/industry-sector...area-2016-uli-hines-student-competition/
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! Iconic, but an awful waste of space. I think 30 multiple story buildings on blocks, all of which will with street level retail would be appropriate considering the width of the streets, comparable buildings in the area, demand for for this area now as we'll as preparing for in the future, and proximity to current HRT in addition to the proposed North Ave streetcar. Now Ralph McGill I wouldn't anticipate the same level of density, but I certainly wouldn't be surprised if the smaller scale complexes get bought out for larger developments over the next few years.
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