Proton Center Set To Break Ground in Midtown Atlanta

[J2rescue]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

From what I'm hearing, Emory has plans for the immediate area that extend well beyond this building. I am told that they have quietly been buying up property across from the Emory Midtown Hospital complex and extending down to Piedmont (and yes, this includes the shelter). The plan, I hear, includes relocation of the medical school to this area. It would be a campus-like environment with mid-rise development.
If true, this would a marvelous thing for 'SoNo'.

It would be FANTASTIC for that part of the city if that happens. I know that Emory pre-recession plans to expand the hospital but that was supposed to be on Spring street.

[noah]

Man stabbed multiple times outside Peachtree-Pine shelter - Midtown, GA Patch

About three blocks north of the shelter, ground will very soon break on a state-of-the-art, $225 million, 115,000 square-foot cancer-treating proton facility on a 2.39-acre property bounded by Peachtree St., North Ave., Juniper St., and Ponce de Leon Ave.

The Georgia Proton Treatment Center at 615 Peachtree St., the state’s first proton therapy facility and just the 10th in the country, is a joint venture by Emory Healthcare and Advanced Particle Therapy, LLC of San Diego. When completed, it will employ approximately 110 professionals and treat around 1,900 patients annually.

There have been rumors that Emory officials have been buying property in the area of “SoNo” – the south or North Avenue dub-district of Downtown – with hopes of creating a campus-like environment around the hospital that would include mid-rise development.

[Nast]

I do like the way the 131 Ponce building has ultimately turned out. The old Pei facade is still recognizable, but nicely complements the design of the rest of the building. Kudos to the developers in preserving part of the history of the previous building while adding something unique to the area.

On the downside, it makes the two-story windowless gray slab of the Proton Center across the street that much more depressing to look at. From an aesthetic point of view, the earlier commenters from last year were correct - this was a missed opportunity.

[cqholt]

According to the AJC, construction on the Proton Center will require the closure of Juniper Street—a five-lane southbound artery—between Ponce de Leon and North avenues. Ouch.

The closure will begin June 26 and reportedly continue all the way through October, as crews work to install components weighing up to 90 tons.

Juniper Street traffic will be detoured eastward to Argonne Avenue and then back to Courtland Street (which is what Juniper Street turns into at North Avenue). The routing will add four traffic lights and nearly a mile to the trip between Midtown and downtown.

https://atlanta.curbed.com/2017/6/1/...-street-closed

[Gulch]

Originally Posted by cqholt

https://atlanta.curbed.com/2017/6/1/...-street-closed

This building is a cancer itself.

[primaltech]

Atlanta city planning/zoning department: "Yes, a massive Wal-Mart-looking 2-story building is perfectly appropriate for the city's most dense and urban street and neighborhood, across the street from literally the tallest skyscraper in most of the country. Approved!"

Idiots.

[gold15]

Originally Posted by Gulch

This building is a cancer itself.

LOL. I always look at that long white half-mile wall on Juniper and wonder what is going to be painted on it. Actually, I wonder how that happened, right there.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by gold15

LOL. I always look at that long white half-mile wall on Juniper and wonder what is going to be painted on it. Actually, I wonder how that happened, right there.

Emory got money and pull.

[tikigod311]

Originally Posted by cqholt

https://atlanta.curbed.com/2017/6/1/...-street-closed

WTF

This is completely unacceptable. How can they let something like that happen...for 4 months!!!! That is total BS that a private entity can disrupt a public space as vital as this for so long.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Emory got money and pull.

They certainly do, despite the claims you sometimes hear that they are barely hanging on by a thread. The university alone is the second biggest employer in metro Atlanta, and if you include Emory Healthcare they are the top dog.

Remember the charming old 615 Peachtree building that the Proton center replaced? Contrast that with the way Decatur has handled its vintage bank buildings from the 1950s and 60s.





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