Midtown (Atlanta: home builders, builders, pay)

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by J2rescue

Work launches on Norfolk Southern headquarters

https://atlanta.curbed.com/atlanta-d...s-construction

Build the protected bike lanes on W Peachtree and Spring St as part of this development.

[testa50]

Originally Posted by neo_civitas

When I think of transformative Whole Foods, I think of the one on P Street in Logan Circle or the one by the GW Metro Station. Both are deeply integrated into the city grid. They have ample seating areas outside.

This one, though exciting, seems too close to the Interstate to function as a pedestrian-focused Whole Foods, like the examples from DC.

It may though help to spur additional residential development in the area, as the one on P-Street did. That set off a residential development frenzy in the Logan Circle neighborhood.

It's the same exact distance from the interstate as the Publix on Spring Street, and that store, dinky by comparison, already helped catalyze a massive boom in the central part of Midtown. The blocks around that store are some of the densest in the entire city.

There are already numerous huge residential towers within a short walk of this Whole Foods (~3 blocks), and many more blocks that could be redeveloped (essentially everything west of Spring, and everything south of 12th). In ten years, the northwest part of midtown could be the densest part of the metro area.

[Atlanta Scientist]

Originally Posted by neo_civitas

When I think of transformative Whole Foods, I think of the one on P Street in Logan Circle or the one by the GW Metro Station. Both are deeply integrated into the city grid. They have ample seating areas outside.

This one, though exciting, seems too close to the Interstate to function as a pedestrian-focused Whole Foods, like the examples from DC.

It may though help to spur additional residential development in the area, as the one on P-Street did. That set off a residential development frenzy in the Logan Circle neighborhood.

I don't think anyone suggested that this Whole Foods store was transformative. This is rather another mark in the transformation of midtown as more urban place. There are now more options for doing basic things without a car.

[Street Advocate]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Build the protected bike lanes on W Peachtree and Spring St as part of this development.

Now wouldn’t that have been something? Spring street and WP could have nearly a protected bike lane from 14th st down to 3rd if each development did this. Portman’s projects alone would have built out two parallel blocks of protected cycle tracks.

[Street Advocate]

Originally Posted by Soolmr

Wonder when will the area around Apache Cafe will be turned into a highrise?

Tick-tock, tick-tock...

[cqholt]

Toll Brothers, a nationwide developer of “luxury” homes, is in the planning stages to develop a new residential tower in Midtown.
The real estate firm recently submitted plans to the City of Atlanta to redevelop a 1.571-acre tract, at 1018 and 1032 West Peachtree Street NW (pictured above, highlighted in yellow), into a new development with “market rate and student housing multifamily dwelling units.”

There would also be sidewalk-level commercial space and a parking structure.

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[atlHawks]

Originally Posted by cqholt

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Good. Another piece of nothing being used to grow the city.

[NC2ATL60]

Originally Posted by atlHawks

Good. Another piece of nothing being used to grow the city.

Last I checked, residential wasn’t “nothing” especially in a city that has such a limited supply of housing available compared to the demand.

[samiwas1]

Originally Posted by NC2ATL60

Last I checked, residential wasn’t “nothing” especially in a city that has such a limited supply of housing available compared to the demand.

I think he meant it's currently nothing, and will be used better as residential...

[NC2ATL60]

Originally Posted by samiwas1

I think he meant it's currently nothing, and will be used better as residential...

Ah ok my bad!