Chamblee preparing to start on $110 million town center plan (Atlanta: sale, city hall)

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Chamblee preparing to start on $110 million town center plan | Atlanta Business Chronicle

Ask Chamblee Mayor Eric Clarkson what he hopes the residents of Chamblee will be able to boast about in 10 years and he has a clear, immediate response.

“When people ask us ‘Where’s downtown Chamblee?’ we’re going to be able to say, ‘At the intersection of Peachtree and Broad,’” Clarkson said. “Right now, when we’re asked that question, folks scratch their head and say they don’t really know because we have never really had a defined downtown.”

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Other parts of the plan including a complete rebuilding of the Peachtree Road pedestrian hardscape and landscape, with an eye on pedestrian activity, expanding the Chamblee Rail Trail system, and implementing a new downtown area sub-district zoning ordinance with streetscape standards, building typologies and zoning requirements to complement the city’s vision. Much of this, according to Seven Oaks founder and Principal Bob Voyles, is already underway, and will be completed within several years.

“The city’s geographic coverage has tripled in less than 10 years; its current City Hall was built nearly 20 years ago and just did not anticipate the space needs that are currently needed for the growth that the city has experienced,” Voyles said. “This need for a new city hall, coupled with an orderly development of those parcels which form the city’s land assemblage, as well as the positive development marching up Peachtree Boulevard, make for the perfect timing to launch the town center effort. … Also, the renaissance of other historic downtown communities all over the region, and the much-publicized plans for Assembly on Chamblee’s northern border, were reminders to the city of what could take place here in historic downtown Chamblee.”

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Carter said Phase One of the town center project will add more than five acres of new residential, retail and office space in Chamblee’s downtown, with additional development north along the MARTA corridor.

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Chamblee Town Center

In a master plan presentation presented to the Chamblee City Council last year by Seven Oaks and HGOR, the five-year plan for the Chamblee town center project includes:

2019 – 2020:

• Negotiate easements for improvements along Broad Street and with existing landowners; construct improvements

• Design and begin construction on ‘High-Line’ portion of Rail Trail, using master plan streetscape specifications

• Expose options for reuse of current City Hall building for private use (with design/use restrictions), or as a new community facility for arts center and other uses

• Police offices relocate, construct new plaza area in front of City Hall

• Design and install street bridge and improvements along Peachtree Road Bridge (over Chamblee-Dunwoody)

• Construct new City Hall building on former police station site

• Continue strategic land acquisition and sale strategy within Downtown Chamblee Town Center (DCTC) area

2021 - 2024

• Complete High Line Rail Trail

• Design and construct Low-Line Rail Trail, including negotiating easements for remaining right-of-way needed

• Complete DCTC streetscape improvements along American Way, Broad Street and Peachtree Road, as well as any newly created roads

• Continue strategic activation of land parcels within DCTC in order to complete the DCTC Master Plan

• Complete remaining street grid installations and green space as drawn on Master Plan

• Negotiate easements and design/build DCTC portal bridge over Peachtree Boulevard

[arjay57]

Looks like Chamblee has jumped on redevelopment with both feet.

[jsvh]

Chamblee set to extend multi-use Rail Trail, launch Peachtree Road streetscape project | Curbed

Chamblee’s popular multi-use path, the Rail Trail, is about to grow substantially.

On Friday, officials representing the quickly urbanizing metro Atlanta city plan to celebrate groundbreakings for a Rail Trail extension and major streetscape project along Peachtree Road.

Currently, the Rail Trail—essentially Chamblee’s own little Beltline—snakes through the city’s residential and commercial districts, linking pedestrians and cyclists to the Chamblee MARTA Station and nearby Keswick Park.

The extension would integrate the Rail Trail with the streetscape project—think wide sidewalks, street furniture, on-street parking, and new greenery—along Peachtree Road.

f all goes well with those projects, which are funded by TSPLOST money and expected to wrap construction within a year, they could pave the way for the Rail Trail to one day connect with the Peachtree Creek Greenway, which is expected to then link with the Atlanta Beltline...

https://www.reporternewspapers.net/2...will-be-built/

[MattCW]

Chamblee is quite the up and coming city. Now Chamblee is doing it right, it's growing a dense, walkable downtown, on top of a heavy rail line that will actually take people to most of the jobs they'd be going to, save Perimeter or Cumberland. And they're doing it without sacrificing the road infrastructure and cutting down major thoroughfares to make them "walkable."

[JMatl]

I love Chamblee. I live in an area that voted overwhelmingly to be annexed into the City a few years ago. None of the people in my circle regret it.

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Originally Posted by JMatl

I love Chamblee. I live in an area that voted overwhelmingly to be annexed into the City a few years ago. None of the people in my circle regret it.

It's a shame that the city never established an independent school system. Can you imagine what it would be today?