Please, PLEASE add water features... a series of small-medium sized plazas with water fountains will do wonders for desirability and livability. It gets fucking hot here. Add some water and shade!
I see that the circular buildings are still a part of the plan. What are these?
They are 'pie-in-the-sky' designs that architects put in renderings to sell projects to investors and tenants, that they never intend to build, because they know they will build what the bank tells them to build
That is the most over the top looking gym I have seen. Even Equinox in NYC leases cheaper space that what I'm seeing in the rendering. It looks like the lobby of the Apple headquarters in California.
Chuckles aside, and on a positive note, the renderings look incredible, and I believe it will be an amazing and transformation project, even with the eventual VE added to the project.
Project officials also announced that London-based architecture firm Foster + Partners has been hired to collaborate with Perkins & Will architects on forthcoming designs.
The British firm studied Atlanta’s historic street grid to envision Centennial Yards as a walkable environment that embraces the city’s penchant for being outdoors..
Foster+Partners, a London-based architecture firm and integrated design studio, has joined the project. Foster+Partners has worked on Manhattan's 50 Hudson Yards, a 2.9-million square foot project that features an office tower that lured corporate tenants including BlackRock and Facebook. That project has a 2022 delivery date. Centennial Yards and Hudson Yards share parallels, with both serving as massive urban redevelopments near public transit. Foster+Partners will work alongside architect Perkins+Will on Centennial Yards.
As noted here previously in April. Foster + Partners joining this project is huge news and will elevate its design in an important way. The new street grid shown in the post above is a good sign.
As soon as I saw the new master plan, I thought it looked like an extension off the Fairlie-Poplar district. Having Foster+Partners as a part of this is a total game-changer.
I love that this shows them covering the old AJC trucking platform (remember all those trucks in the mornings?). I assume that's a different "air rights" package than what is over the old CNN decks. These deals go way back to Cousins in the 1970's. I think the AJC platform is from the 1960's??
They show the parking deck on Marietta St with the big clock and Hudson Grille as not existing. Is that just pie-in-the-sky? But the Nelson St bridge is restored!
To be able to walk comfortably from Centennial Park to Castleberry would be just awesome
They show the parking deck on Marietta St with the big clock and Hudson Grille as not existing. Is that just pie-in-the-sky? But the Nelson St bridge is restored!
To be able to walk comfortably from Centennial Park to Castleberry would be just awesome
Every rendering I've seen shows the parking deck site as a part of Centennial Yards.
They can't break ground on anything (I.e. no LDP) until this SAP is approved. They just applied for it. The only part of the project permitted is the portion behind the old NS building.
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How about this for the city's slogan:
They can't break ground on anything (I.e. no LDP) until this SAP is approved. They just applied for it. The only part of the project permitted is the portion behind the old NS building.
I was actually looking for surveyors, markings or some other evidence. Didn't expect "shovels" yet.
Plans for downtown's 50-acre Centennial Yards project should include for more housing, a key for the district's revitalization, members of a city advisory group says.
Recommendations from the Downtown Development Review Committee follow Centennial Yards Co. applying for a Special Administrative Permit earlier this month from the city to redevelop the "The Gulch," a collection of underground parking lots below downtown's Mercedes-Benz Stadium and State Farm Arena.
Representatives from Centennial Yards Co., a partnership led by Los-Angeles developer CIM Group, attended the committee meeting, but did not indicate if more housing is planned in the development. A request to Centennial Yards Co. for more details about the project was not returned.
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