Buckhead to Midtown Skyline (Atlanta: neighborhoods, suite, warehouse)

[dp01512]

How long do you believe it will be before the skylines between Buckhead and Midtown merge?

[thebigATL]

2020-2030ish

[Newsboy]

Never. You've got the interstate corridors, the MARTA line and some pretty significant industrial / warehouse space in between them for one thing, and a lot of great blocks / neighborhoods up Peachtree Road would have to be destroyed if you wanted to line the street with high-rises all the way.

I think they'll continue to grow closer together, but they'll never merge.

Downtown-Midtown? Midtown-West Midtown? Now that's something else that developers and the city should really be encouraging and we'll likely see in our lifetimes.

[atler8]

Frankly speaking, even if a huge building boom were to re-emerge in that region of the city, it still would take a matter of a few decades before the skylines were to truly merge into one, long continuous string of buildings or towers. And then there would probably yet be weaker areas or gaps where the line in the sky would be little more than low-rise buildings.
I've been at my job in Midtown for nearly 30 years & have watched the skyline out of our north-facing suite windows morph incredibly larger. Many old gaps have filled in but there are still large, expansive spaces where nothing more than low rise to mid rise exist now.
And yet, looking at the Peachtree Road corridor from the air, there is already a semblance of connectivity between Midtown & Buckhead in that the roadway & it's current development already resemble a long spine. But I would not go so far as to say that it's development in any ways resembles a merged skyline.

[ATLJR]

I don't like that idea, doesn't leave enough elbow room.

[bryantm3]

Originally Posted by dp01512

How long do you believe it will be before the skylines between Buckhead and Midtown merge?

the way i see it, you've got two possible corridors to connect the skyline without destroying neighbourhoods: peachtree road and piedmont. piedmont is the most likely corridor to see skyscrapers go up on because right along piedmont road you've got a lot of sprawl, one story industrial buildings, strip clubs, and so on, that could potentially be replaced with more urban development. however, it would be a very narrow strip of skyline if it were ever to connect.

the thing is, you're seeing mid-rise development along that corridor now, and i don't think that's really going to change.

the other option is peachtree road, but the problem there is that you've got tons of historic neighbourhoods and beautiful buildings along that corridor, especially the area around peachtree heights and the two cathedrals. north and south of that area, you've got a similar situation to piedmont road, a narrow strip of car oriented development that has a good potential for urban development, but from a visual point of view, it wouldn't really connect the skyline as the development would be too narrow of a strip.

the only other way you could connect the skylines is if you take out a neighbourhood or two, and i don't think anyone wants that to happen.

[Zanarkand A East]

Originally Posted by Newsboy

Downtown-Midtown? Midtown-West Midtown? Now that's something else that developers and the city should really be encouraging and we'll likely see in our lifetimes.

Co-sign.

[Newsboy]

BTW ... Manhattan's skylines don't connect. Neither do LA's. Atlanta's don't have to connect either to make the city more urban than it is today; just continue with lots of mid and low-rise infill and the goal will be accomplished.

[thebigATL]

Originally Posted by atljr

i don't like that idea, doesn't leave enough elbow room.

shutup!!!

[cqholt]

There is not rail-base transit along that corridor to support higher density. Let's focus high density projects around existing transit stations.