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GeorgiaPeanuts · #**18301** Posted **May 10, 2016, 7:23 PM**

This is the final render of Madison Yards as approved by Reynoldstown neighborhood which matches the site plan that was floating around.

forj · #**18302** Posted **May 10, 2016, 7:27 PM**

honestly.. that looks pretty good. this is a Fuqua development right? if they all looked like this i would be ecstatic. It's plenty dense.. for some reason though, i thought this was going on the west side of Bill Kennedy not the east side.. What is going on the west side?

GeorgiaPeanuts · #**18303** Posted **May 10, 2016, 7:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by forj

honestly.. that looks pretty good. this is a Fuqua development right? if they all looked like this i would be ecstatic. It's plenty dense.. for some reason though, i thought this was going on the west side of Bill Kennedy not the east side.. What is going on the west side?

Yeah it is the final version of the Leggett Platt site. Surface parking is greatly reduced. It is a big improvement over his usual designs, though the blank walls where the grocer/Theater/Fitness is at in the interior streets is a bit disappointing.

arctk2014 · #**18304** Posted **May 10, 2016, 7:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

Yeah it is the final version of the Leggett Platt site. Surface parking is greatly reduced. It is a big improvement over his usual designs, though the blank walls where the grocer/Theater/Fitness is at in the interior streets is a bit disappointing.

When the streets become "alleys" lined with blank walls the creation of those streets becomes pointless. The big-box store/retail fronts surface parking rather than the streets they back up to. The plan is still awful and anti-urban when you're creating fake streets for the sake of satiating the neighborhood's concerns of breaking up the superblocks. The Edgewood Retail district has several similar conditions that are unpleasant to walk through.

Ant131531 · #**18305** Posted **May 10, 2016, 7:54 PM**

I really hate how there is a sort of "wall" in front of the retail storefronts on Memorial like why is that necessary?

arctk2014 · #**18306** Posted **May 10, 2016, 8:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ant131531

I really hate how there is a sort of "wall" in front of the retail storefronts on Memorial like why is that necessary?

Because they don't know how to do proper retail in an urban setting. They did the same thing at Glenwood by bringing the grade plane out toward Glenwood and dropping off at the "front" of the property.

micropundit · #**18307** Posted **May 10, 2016, 9:59 PM**

New City's Jim Irwin has construction financing for his 725 Ponce project. Just no office tenant yet. Jim revealed that JPMorgan is his development partner on the $140M project.New City just filed permits with the City of Atlanta to begin construction, although he's still working out details with The Kroger Co for an exact start date.
https://www.bisnow.com/atlanta/news/capi...it-again-buying-choate-hq-59862?rt=16475

DWNTWN · #**18308** Posted **May 10, 2016, 10:47 PM**

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I am glad to see this project moving forward, and I hope it pushes Jamestown to develop the tower that has been planned across the Beltline from this project. Maybe sometime in the not so distant future the parking lot of this Kroger will be developed like those proposed at the Disco Kroger, though at a smaller scale.

GTdan · #**18309** Posted **May 11, 2016, 12:45 AM**

Did anyone make it to the Midtown DRC meeting tonight?

arctk2014 · #**18310** Posted **May 11, 2016, 12:49 AM**

I'm sure the recommendations will be posted tomorrow but some sneak peak images uploaded to the DRC's website from May's Agenda.

http://www.midtownatl.com/about/programs...ment-review-committee/MAY-2016-drc-recap

Midtown Medical Office
(Elevation from 13th Street)
By securing more real estate the developer is able to relocate the office component to front West Peachtree, integrating retail/active-use along the street as well as include a retail/office component facing Spring Street in the parking deck. Will be nice to see how the West Peachtree corridor changes with more retail/restaurant options near 14th Street.

Babalu Tacos and Tapas
(View from Peachtree Place at West Peachtree)
*rendering doesn't accurately depict the background well

18-Story Hotel at Corner of 3rd and Peachtree Adjacent to Fox Theater
Unknown Developer at the time

NewUrbanist90 · #**18311** Posted **May 11, 2016, 1:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by arctk2014

18-Story Hotel at Corner of 3rd and Peachtree Adjacent to Fox Theater
Unknown Developer at the time

Bring on the density! Love to see another parking lot biting the dust, and with the JPX tower right around there, this area has some exciting things happening.

GeorgiaPeanuts · #**18312** Posted **May 11, 2016, 2:06 AM**

What street is the MOB render from? 13th?

Ant131531 · #**18313** Posted **May 11, 2016, 2:34 AM**

I like the signing for the "Babalu" restaurant. Looks very vibrant. This seems to be a chain strictly located in the South. Rated a 4.5 at the Jackson location, the #2 rated restaurant in the city.

The hotel "drawings" look vague so I can't comment much other than the fact that
I like that the lot will be built on.

The medical office building still looks as awful and unexciting as I remember....one of the worst proposals of the decade so far in Midtown.

Martinman · #**18314** Posted **May 11, 2016, 3:40 AM**

Re: MOB
If that's accurate, 38,000 SF seems like an unusually large amount of retail. I wonder if there's space for a specific retailer in the development.

Street Advocate · #**18315** Posted **May 11, 2016, 12:17 PM**

Wish the medical office building only took up half the lot... But ten and four stories with retail on both spring and west peachtree could help invigorate the area. Maybe more parking lots will be developed between 10th and 14th?? A lot of space still in this pocket of Midtown.

Better image of the hotel came up on the site:

Looks like MOB image was updated too:

GeorgiaPeanuts · #**18316** Posted **May 11, 2016, 2:28 PM**

That is not bad, as usual I think people are quick to judge with the lower-quality renders.

It is nice of the MOB to be oriented the long way being north/south so that it minimizes the impact to views for its neighbor.

GeorgiaPeanuts · #**18317** Posted **May 11, 2016, 2:55 PM**

http://atlanta.curbed.com/2016/5/11/11653472/ascent-midtown-1400-west-peacthree-hotel-apartments

Ascent Midtown has construction fencing up. Should be starting any time now

arctk2014 · #**18318** Posted **May 11, 2016, 3:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

That is not bad, as usual I think people are quick to judge with the lower-quality renders.

It is nice of the MOB to be oriented the long way being north/south so that it minimizes the impact to views for its neighbor.

There's an updated rendering now - it sits MUCH better along West Peachtree.