Downtown Atlanta about to see a $500 million-plus round of development? (Marietta: live, storage)

[AnsleyPark]

Originally Posted by jsvh

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/...for-gulch.html


Ug. I am hoping we don't get HQ2 at this point. The tax handouts are bad enough on their own, but that they specifically exclude small businesses / developments from those incentives ($400M minimum size) is very stupid.

Small business is the life blood of any economy. This crony capitalism favoring oligopolies / monopolies is terrible

I certainly see your point here. It is a tough decision when so many jobs could / may be generated by these large corporations. Hopefully the retail space in the gulch plans will, in fact, bring in small businesses whose costs can be lowered if the developer passes some of these benefits through to its tenants.

[cqholt]

Latest renderings of Hard Rock Hotel

In addition to the Reverb hotel’s 200 rooms and rooftop bar, the 2.4-acre mixed-use site, under development by Bolton Atlanta, will also offer 130 apartments—20 percent of which will be earmarked for people making 80 percent of the area median income—20,000 square feet of retail space, and its own small park.

https://atlanta.curbed.com/atlanta-d...-mercedes-benz

[LT6789]

Boooooo!

[cqholt]

New York-based Marx Realty has announced plans for the modernization and rebranding of 207 Peachtree, a 1920s building at the southeast corner of Andrew Young International Boulevard and Peachtree Street.

Originally the downtown location of popular Regenstein’s Department Store, a purveyor of top-shelf fashion, the mostly empty structure will be renamed The Department Building.

Plans call for retaining the exterior’s Art Deco flourishes while adding 48,000 square feet of creative offices and a rooftop amenity with views spanning from Hard Rock Cafe across the street to Stone Mountain. (Downtown’s Hooters occupies a Peachtree storefront but a different address).

https://atlanta.curbed.com/atlanta-d...achtree-street

[cqholt]

A Hyatt-branded project that’s replacing downtown parking lots with 11 stories of lodging and retail storefronts on two streets is beginning to materialize.

Reps with Hyatt Place Centennial Park, a joint venture between Hyatt and affiliates of Atlanta developer Songy Highroads, sent a construction update this week for a 175-key Luckie Street lodge that couldn’t be much closer to the Georgia Aquarium.

The project, which has reached the fifth floor of construction, wiped out surface parking and a two-story midcentury building that most recently served as a school.

Plans call for an August 2019 debut, months before the aquarium’s $100 million shark-exhibit expansion is expected to wrap.

https://atlanta.curbed.com/2018/11/8...entennial-park

[bryantm3]

Originally Posted by cqholt

https://atlanta.curbed.com/atlanta-d...achtree-street

that used to be a 2-story McDonald's.

[J2rescue]

Fresh renderings of Reverb Hard Rock hotel (under construction)



https://atlanta.curbed.com/2018/11/1...k-hotel-reverb

And Newports's South Downtown development.


https://atlanta.curbed.com/2018/11/9...im-group-gulch

[mattg23]

I agree south downtown is about to become very exciting, and I've done some research if there were any doubts about Newport US to pull this off I think it's over. Take a look at this site below, they have hired the best Landscape and urban architects from New York City, including Brooklyn's finest.


Future Green: South Downtown Master Plan

[cqholt]

Another church looks to sell some property.

At 151 years old, First Congregational Church has hosted parishioners on the same downtown block—now the corner of Courtland Street and John Wesley Dobbs Avenue—since a couple of years after the Civil War.

Now, in response to a surge of residential and commercial activity, especially on the part of Georgia State University, church officials are marketing a little more than half of the land they own as a prime development site, according to a Request for Proposals provided to Curbed Atlanta.

The offering in question is .8 acres, mostly consumed by surface parking, with a low-rise structure in the middle that serves as the church’s rentable annex (originally a fire station) near the corner of Ellis and Courtland streets.

No minimum bid price was specified.

The intent is for First Congregational Church to partner with a developer to create “high-quality, urban real estate development that helps to advance the church’s mission while enhancing downtown” at the “heart of the growing Georgia State University campus,” reads the RFP.

https://atlanta.curbed.com/2018/12/7...ational-church

[cqholt]

41 Marietta office tower to be converted to 131-unit apartment.
https://atlanta.curbed.com/2019/1/16...tment-building