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The tech giant has acquired 90 acres next to the Westside Park at Bellwood Quarry, including the large parcel where former baseball star Mark Teixeira once planned a mixed-use development. Microsoft has told a select group of state and city officials that it plans to develop a corporate campus on the site, which would eventually host up to 15,000 workers, sources familiar with the calls tell Bisnow.
Microsoft ultimately plans to develop a corporate campus over a 10-year period, but its ambitions are grander than a cluster of office buildings. The plans call for a host of other developments on the property, including affordable housing and other mixed-use elements, sources familiar with Microsoft's presentation told Bisnow.
That's awesome! Clearly Amazon wasn't the only company scoping out these HQ2 finalist cities, and the commitment to investing more in Black communities by corporate America in the wake of civil unrest last year played a significant role also.
Is there an accessible article about the Microsoft Atlanta campus? I'm not seeing anything in the Seattle or Atlanta press, or Atlanta development bulletin boards. Normally major press outlets would at least report on the rumor by now. (Edit: someone posted the Bisnow content.)
I believe it could be real. But everything I'm seeing is about the already-known 1,500-person campus.
Is there an accessible article about the Microsoft Atlanta campus? I'm not seeing anything in the Seattle or Atlanta press, or Atlanta development bulletin boards. Normally major press outlets would at least report on the rumor by now. (Edit: someone posted the Bisnow content.)
I believe it could be real. But everything I'm seeing is about the already-known 1,500-person campus.
Yeah, the 1,500 person campus is their new AI and cloud center in Atlantic Station. This is several miles west of there, adjacent to our soon to open new largest City park. They purchased all of the property in a proposed mixed-use development and have since added additional acreage. Details are slowly leaking out, but they have been pretty tight lipped about it so far though.
This is another feather in Georgia Tech's cap. They are the ones really driving the market here, there have never been as many cranes in Midtown and the 'new' Westside...
I hope Bisnow didn't mistaken this with the 1,500 campus... That would suck
The 1500 person job expansion is going in a development called Atlantic Yards which is all but complete now. This is completely different. You don't buy up 90 acres of land for a 1500 job campus. There's been a ton of articles over the last year or two about Microsoft buying land in the westside of Atlanta and small talks here or there of an expansion, but this is the first article that sort of goes into a bit more detail.
This is definitely real....now I'm not sure if it's actually going to be 15k jobs(if it is, that's insanely huge for the region), but Microsoft is planning something big here.
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