Medical building planned downtown (Atlanta: hotels, construction, maintenance)

[tonygeorgia]

A more than $17.5 million medical office development is being planned in Downtown Atlanta, according to a building permit filed with the city of Atlanta.
The project calls for a 238,000-square-foot office building and parking deck at 206 Edgewood Ave.
Hardin Construction Co., which was listed on the building permit as the applicant, declined comment. Malachi Development LLC was listed as owner in the public filing.

Medical building planned downtown | Atlanta Business Chronicle

[AnsleyPark]

Hmm. Wonder when someone will ever rehab the old Medical Arts building. Thanks for the post!

[waronxmas]

Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

Hmm. Wonder when someone will ever rehab the old Medical Arts building. Thanks for the post!

From what I understand the building is basically a lost cause. It has been vacant and exposed to the elements for so long, without maintenance, that the cost of rehabbing the building is prohibitively expensive. It's a real shame since it's such a gorgeous building:





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[waronxmas]

Oh, and:

-Another empty lot Downtown bites the dust.

-This presents a great development opportunity for Downtown East as a medical center anchored by Grady.

[alco89]

Originally Posted by waronxmas

Oh, and:

-Another empty lot Downtown bites the dust.

-This presents a great development opportunity for Downtown East as a medical center anchored by Grady.

AND it's directly on the streetcar route that has virtually been green-lit:

Feds open up funding for Atlanta streetcar project *| ajc.com

This is all exciting news for downtown!

[koko339]

Oh good, so this is an empty lot? I looked the address up and it showed a couple of historic, but dowdy, buildings on Edgewood. I was hoping Google Maps was being inaccurate and the site was actually the empty lots next to the old buildings.

[RZaakir]

I was hoping that it was infill development too, but I'll take a building rehab. Everything helps increase the profile of that strip.

As for the Medical Arts building, I seriously doubt that it is beyond rehabilitation. Anyone who saw the Glenn and Ellis hotels before their respective renovations knows that dedicated developers can do wonders with blighted highrises.

[MathmanMathman]

Originally Posted by waronxmas

From what I understand the building is basically a lost cause. It has been vacant and exposed to the elements for so long, without maintenance, that the cost of rehabbing the building is prohibitively expensive. It's a real shame since it's such a gorgeous building:

Yeah, it came up before in an old thread and from what a poster said, the building is beyond repair.

[MathmanMathman]

Originally Posted by RZaakir

As for the Medical Arts building, I seriously doubt that it is beyond rehabilitation. Anyone who saw the Glenn and Ellis hotels before their respective renovations knows that dedicated developers can do wonders with blighted highrises.

There's more to it than what you can see from the street. It has to be structurally sound. But even so, I think the former Winecofff and Glenn looked better than the Medical Arts building.

I'd like to see the former Atlanta Constitution building saved, but I think it's too far gone.

[Columbus1984]

How tall will the building be?