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Images: Roswell's first food hall taking shape in former church Josh Green Fri, 10/18/2024 - 13:47 Two hot Atlanta trends—the redevelopment of former churches and food halls in general—are converging at a single site in one of the metro’s buzziest suburbs.

Construction is wrapping up on Roswell’s first food hall project, Roswell Junction, after transforming a former church at 340 S. Atlanta St., just south of the Fulton County city’s Historic Square.

Roswell Junction officially broke ground in January and is considered part of the broader redevelopment of Atlanta Street, a main Roswell thoroughfare. The city’s famed Canton Street food-and-drink row is located about a mile up the road, to the north.

Partners in the deal include developer Will Colley and food-and-beverage experts with Coliccio Consulting and Cushman & Wakefield.

Plans for 12,000-square-foot Roswell Junction call for eight unique food concepts, a 2,400-square-foot patio dubbed the “Trailer Park” with an entertainment stage (and Airstream trailer bar), plus other bars and areas for games, including an arcade.

How the patio will relate to Roswell Junction's main entry. Roswell Junction

Renderings depicting the planned look of interiors. Roswell Junction

The former Atlanta Street Baptist Church, which relocated to Woodstock, is surrounded by free parking, the development team has noted.

Officials with management company National Food Hall Solutions told Appen Media this week the food hall could start opening as soon as Monday.

Signed tenants include Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee (moving and expanding from a location on the same street), Across the Coast Seafood and Flying Fish (housed today in Atlanta’s Chattahoochee Food Works), Mad Dad Philly’s, Pretty Little Tacos, Shawarma Shack, and burger concept Cleaver & Co., per the news site.

The former Atlanta Street Baptist Church, prior to construction in 2022. Google Maps

Construction progress on the 340 S. Atlanta St. project in June. Google Maps

Roswell Junction will have a 350-person capacity, with roughly 100 parking spaces, and a greenspace behind the main building for yard games such as cornhole.

Find more context and project images in the gallery above.

Roswell Junction's location (in red, at bottom) in relation to Canton Street, at top. Google Maps

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Roswell Junction's location (in red, at bottom) in relation to Canton Street, at top. Google Maps

The former Atlanta Street Baptist Church, prior to construction in 2022. Google Maps

Construction progress on the 340 S. Atlanta St. project in June. Google Maps

How the patio will relate to Roswell Junction's main entry. Roswell Junction

Renderings depicting the planned look of interiors. Roswell Junction

The Atlanta Street facade. Roswell Junction

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Cobb Galleria redo; Atlanta Medical Center; Buckhead tower brewing Josh Green Fri, 10/18/2024 - 11:21 COBB COUNTY—An overhaul is in the works for a well-known Cobb County gathering place near the Braves’ stadium and The Battery Atlanta. Officials with the Cobb-Marietta Coliseum & Exhibit Hall Authority, owner and operator of Cobb Galleria Centre, announced this week an expansion and renovation of the center is set to break ground next year.

Situated across a pedestrian bridge from The Battery, the Cobb Galleria Centre is described by its ownership as the leading venue in Georgia for mid-size conventions, trade shows, special events, and meetings.

The renovation's scope calls for: demolishing the Galleria Specialty Shops and second-floor meeting rooms;​ building a two-story “grand entryway” with a new junior ballroom, two outdoor courtyards and gardens for events, and a connected parking facility with covered access into the expanded center; and adding 13,000 square feet of meeting space with enhanced tech.

A facelift for the existing large ballroom, convention space, concourse, and rotunda is also in the works.

Cobb-Marietta Coliseum & Exhibit Hall Authority

The authority has put together a team—all of them Cobb County-based firms—to manage the project's design and construction, including Rule Joy Trammell & Rubio architects, Holder Construction, and Impact Development Management. The project is scheduled to break ground in fall 2025 and finish in early 2027, per the authority.

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OLD FOURTH WARD—Following nearly two years of public discussions and behind-the-scenes dealings, some clarity has come this week for what the future of a large, empty medical complex in Old Fourth Ward may bring.

Wellstar Health System announced Thursday that redevelopment of its closely watched Atlanta Medical Center campus is expected to kick off in coming weeks, led by veteran Atlanta developer The Integral Group.

The Atlanta City Council unanimously approved a land-use plan for the vacated complex last month, with a nod from Mayor Andre Dickens. A zoning moratorium on the property—renewed three different times by the city—expired Tuesday.

Wellstar’s announcement for the 22-acre campus isn’t exactly rich with detail, but redevelopment plans generally call for “a vibrant, diverse mixed-use neighborhood with affordable housing, residential properties, community, and public greenspace,” plus “neighborhood-level retail, new street access, commercial uses, and health and well-being resources.”

Courtesy of Wellstar

Plans call for Integral to put together an implementation plan in coming weeks while gathering feedback from O4W residents and other stakeholders in the community. According to Wellstar, the redevelopment will play out over several years, with community input helping to guide each phase. Integral plans to start applying for permits soon in hopes of beginning demolition of aging structures around the campus in the first quarter of 2025, per officials.  

A healthcare and well-being component will be included in the project, but exactly what that might entail is pending Integral’s planning and community engagement.

“I appreciate Wellstar moving forward with this community-driven project,” noted Dickens in the announcement, “while our administration continues to explore options to meet the healthcare needs of residents on the Southside.”

The AMC site's barricaded entries along Boulevard, north of John Lewis Freedom Parkway. Google Maps

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BUCKHEAD—After striking gold with its first two condo projects in Atlanta—the 18-story contract magnet that is Dillon Buckhead, and the sold-out, 22-story Graydon project—Florida-based developer Kolter Urban is setting sights on another Buckhead parcel to go vertical again. As Atlanta Business Chronicle reports, Kolter Urban officials plan to erect their third high-rise condominium build on West Paces Ferry Road, next door to the posh St. Regis Atlanta hotel and condos.  

The 102 W. Paces Ferry Road site—currently home to a small shopping center called Buckhead Plaza—was previously targeted for a massive, multi-tower development with a hotel and more than 300 residential units that never took off.

Kolter Urban’s plans call for 198 condos (one to three-bedroom floorplans) in a new building standing 19 stories.

The 102 W. Paces Ferry Road property in question (at right), just west of the St. Regis Atlanta tower.Google Maps

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Rough approximation of the 25-acre O4W property spread across more than a city block. Google Maps

The AMC site's barricaded entries along Boulevard, north of John Lewis Freedom Parkway. Google Maps

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Blank Family donation to help link Atlanta to Chattahoochee River Josh Green Thu, 10/17/2024 - 13:58 A donation from Atlanta Falcons and United owner Arthur Blank’s foundation will help bring to fruition better access points to what’s generally considered an underappreciated resource: the Chattahoochee River.

Trust for Public Land officials announced this week the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation has contributed $2.5 million to the ambitious Chattahoochee RiverLands project, a planned 100-mile linear park that would link 20 cities and seven counties along the river through metro Atlanta.

The Blank foundation’s contribution brings fundraising tallies for the RiverLands initiative to north of $49 million—with more than $22 million of that sourced from private donations, and the rest from public funding coffers.

According to TPL officials, the RiverLands recreation destination—billed as “metro Atlanta’s ultimate outdoor experience”—will eventually stretch 100 miles from Buford Dam down to Chattahoochee Bend State Park in Newnan.

In between will be trails, parks, and amenities that connect nearly 1 million residents nearby to outdoor options such as kayaking, hiking, cycling, swimming, and camping, according to TPL.  

But first things first.

The initial RiverLands projects, both under construction now, will serve as smaller-scale examples of how the broader riverside concept could look and function.

Blank’s contribution is “essential” to closing out needed funding for one of those projects, the Camp + Paddle Trail, George Dusenbury, TPL’s Georgia state director, tells Urbanize Atlanta.

The Camp + Paddle Trail, which broke ground in November, will span 48 miles and provide visitors a three-night, four-day itinerary for exploring the river with three campsites, restrooms, pavilions, and other amenities included. It will start at Peachtree Creek in north Atlanta and wiggle down to a 1,400-acre greenspace called McIntosh Reserve in Carroll County, marking the southern end of the RiverLands.

The trail will also include a kayak launch at Atlanta’s Standing Peachtree Greenspace, a historical site in Buckhead.

Scope of the five sites considered destinations along the Camp+Paddle Trail between North Atlanta (top) and Carroll County. Courtesy of TPL

Dusenbery said construction on the Camp + Paddle Trail and its amenities is scheduled to finish in the next few months, and that planning for ribbon-cuttings is underway.

The second initial project has its purpose baked into its name.

The Cobb County Showcase site—a 2.7-mile greenway and trail—will connect Mableton up to Smyrna along the Chattahoochee’s banks.

Dusenbery predicts the showcase project will demonstrate the RiverLands’ functionality and impact in a way that’s similar to how Ponce City Market and Historic Fourth Ward Park showed Atlantans what’s possible with Beltline redevelopment.

Future plans for RiverLands Gateway Park in Cobb County. Courtesy of Trust for Public Land

Highlights will include a new 12-acre greenspace—RiverLands Gateway Park in Mableton, a former industrial site near Six Flags Over Georgia—along with three river access points, ecological restoration, and improved amenities at two existing parks, among other upgrades.

RiverLands Gateway Park will also connect to the Mableton Parkway Trail, providing a vital trail link between the Chattahoochee RiverLands project and Silver Comet Trail.

Planned phasing for the Chattahoochee RiverLands showcase project in Cobb County. Trust for Public Land

Dusenbery told Urbanize the Cobb County Showcase project is expected to finish sometime in 2026. But a TPL ribbon-cutting for the first section of finished trail could come in December alongside Cobb County officials, Dusenbery said.

In the donation announcement, Fay Twersky, Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation president, said access to the Chattahoochee River “will bring metro Atlanta another connection to the outdoors, which is vitally important to our community’s overall well-being.”

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Planned phasing for the Chattahoochee RiverLands showcase project in Cobb County. Trust for Public Land

Future plans for RiverLands Gateway Park in Cobb County. Courtesy of Trust for Public Land

Scope of the five sites considered destinations along the Camp+Paddle Trail between North Atlanta (top) and Carroll County. Courtesy of TPL

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West End warehouse district adds pickleball club, gaming concept Josh Green Thu, 10/17/2024 - 12:41 Pitstops along the Atlanta Beltline’s western edge will soon include a large pickleball complex and an interactive concept that mimics popular gameshows.

Both businesses plan to open in coming months in West End, at the Lee + White adaptive-reuse warehouse district and another building, 1200 White St., just north of it that’s being remade by Lee + White owners Ackerman & Co.

For both concepts, it will mark their first locations in Georgia.

The larger lease—nearly 36,000 square feet at the 1200 White St. building—will go to Dill Dinkers, a growing pickleball franchise.

The West End pickleball club calls for 11 indoor courts in a former warehouse setting, marking the company’s flagship location in metro Atlanta, with more likely in the pipeline.

Each court will be individually fenced, and other components of the club will include a pro shop and events space, per Ackerman & Co. officials.

Courtesy of Dill Dinkers

The courts will feature Dill Dinkers’ trademark Pro Cushion playing surface, which is designed to be easier on players’ joints.

Dill Dinkers plans to open the West End location in the first quarter of 2025, joining outposts in metro Washington D.C., Maryland, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Texas.

The company’s “decision to open its first Atlanta club in the West End is a testament to this area’s growing appeal as a destination for a variety of retailers and businesses,” Evan Ziegler, Ackerman & Co. president of investment, said in an announcement today.

The pickleball complex will consume only a fraction of the 1200 White St. building, which is being remade into a mixed-use hub with a new extension of the Beltline’s Westside Trail planned beside it.

The 211,585-square-foot facility is being designed to accommodate restaurants, retail, industrial uses, creative offices, and experiential concepts, per Ackerman officials.

Courtesy of Dill Dinkers

Current plans for the 1200 White St. building in West End. Courtesy of Studio SOGO

Meanwhile, a couple of blocks to the south at Lee + White, an interactive experience called The Game Show Challenge is aiming to open in a 3,889-square-foot space by the end of 2024.

The Game Show Challenge will be located in Lee + White’s Building 1000, next to Monday Night Brewing and Grady’s new neighborhood health center.

Expect two studios where “contestants”—typically six to 14 people (or more) at a time—can play interactive games hosted in styles that mimic famous gameshows. Think: trivia, word puzzles, spin-the-wheel challenges, and more.

The West End location will mark the third for the gameshow concept, which is aiming to open 30 more over the next five years. Current locations are in Columbia and Greenville, S.C.

“We love to be in areas like this with a steady flow of people,” Josh Brickey, The Game Show Challenge’s managing partner, said in an announcement. “This is a great opportunity for us to be in a redeveloped space with a lot of character, surrounded by a great mix of tenants in a part of town that’s rejuvenating.”

Courtesy of The Game Show Challenge

Courtesy of The Game Show Challenge

Ackerman & Co. and MDH Partners, the development team behind the 11-building Lee + White venture, signed another experiential tenant, Atlanta Golf & Social, this past summer. That concept plans to open in a 3,767-square-foot space in coming months, joining a flagship location in downtown Chamblee.

According to Lee + White developers, just one space totaling 3,990 square feet remains available in the district’s 16-tenant food hall now.

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Current plans for the 1200 White St. building in West End. Courtesy of Studio SOGO

Overview of the property along White Street, at left. Ackerman & Co.

The building's warehouse portion today.Ackerman & Co.

Proximity of the 1200 White St. facility in relation to existing Lee + White buildings and the on-street Westside Trail corridor. Google Maps

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Images: Timber-built Brookhaven City Centre has topped out Josh Green Wed, 10/16/2024 - 15:19 One facet of the Brookhaven City Centre project has officially topped out this week en route to marking several firsts—and becoming the latest example of a MARTA station parking lot being redeveloped for more active uses.

After breaking ground last fall, the $78-million City Hall building has taken shape adjacent to MARTA’s Brookhaven-Oglethorpe University Station as the first step in creating a place-defining city center.

According to general contractor McCarthy + Barnsley, A Joint Venture, the project marks the first municipal building in Georgia to be built with mass timber. It will also function as the first purpose-built City Hall for Brookhaven since it was incorporated as a sovereign city in 2012, the 11th in DeKalb County.

The site in question, where Peachtree Road meets North Druid Hills Road, was formerly a 1.2-acre MARTA parking lot. Brookhaven signed a $13.6-million, lease-purchase agreement with MARTA for the land that will be good for 50 years.

Construction progress on the MARTA-linked 4047 Peachtree Road project. Courtesy of McCarthy + Barnsley

Lighting scheme for the Brookhaven City Centre project at night, as seen along Peachtree Road. Sizemore Group

According to McCarthy + Barnsley officials, the five-story, mass-timber building will house Brookhaven’s administrative offices and city council chambers—but roughly 60 percent of it will be open to the general public.

Topped with a rooftop garden, distinctive dome, and terraces, the Sizemore Group-designed building will feature three upper levels for city employees and one level for a below-grade, 70-space parking garage.

Other facets will see a three-story atrium under a skylight, a sport multipurpose room, a catering kitchen, and a variety of other spaces for public use. Elsewhere on site, a communal greenspace is designed to host public events.

It’s all scheduled to open next summer.

Each of the building's above-ground levels will feature exposed mass timber, a natural material known for durability and a construction process that produces less carbon.

Timber-built interiors of the City Centre project today. Courtesy of McCarthy + Barnsley

How a (sparsely attended) wedding could function on the terrace level. Sizemore Group

Brookhaven’s goal is to make the city complex and transit station more of a nucleus, with bike lanes, multi-use trails, and new sidewalks spreading out from it and linking to other projects such as the Peachtree Creek Greenway. It will serve a populace of about 60,000 people.

Selina Schulten, Barnsley Construction Group’s president, called the Brookhaven project an “excellent representation of mass-timber’s inherent flexibility and versatility” in a topping-out announcement today.  

McCarthy + Barnsley is a joint venture formed in 2020 between McCarthy Building Companies and Barnsley Construction Group. Brookhaven City Centre marks the partnership’s sixth project together.

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Courtesy of McCarthy + Barnsley

City Centre isn’t the only sizable Brookhaven development moving forward within a few blocks of MARTA.

Charlotte-based developer Terwilliger Pappas has entered the home stretch of construction on a project called Solis Dresden Village that includes 176 apartments, seven townhomes, and a row of new retail in the 1300 block of Dresden Drive. That development team has noted their site is about a five-minute walk from the train station.

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The project's context at 4047 Peachtree Road in the ITP city. Google Maps

Plans for Brookhaven City Hall's Peachtree Road facade, with the transit station behind the structure. Sizemore Group

How the $78-million project will be sited at one of Brookhaven's busiest intersections. City of Brookhaven/Sizemore/Fides Development

Construction progress on the MARTA-linked 4047 Peachtree Road project. Courtesy of McCarthy + Barnsley

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Lighting scheme for the Brookhaven City Centre project at night, as seen along Peachtree Road. Sizemore Group

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Study: Atlanta ranks measly 14th in U.S. for development since 1980 Josh Green Wed, 10/16/2024 - 12:20 Anyone who’s considered “Atlanta, Georgia” synonymous with “Sunbelt boomtown” in recent decades might find the results of a new national, urban development analysis surprising. At least on the surface.

A team of analysts with StorageCafe, an online platform with nationwide storage unit listings, studied 44 years’ worth of real estate development data, dating back more than four decades, that shows Atlanta ranked 14th nationally when all categories are combined.

The rankings were based on building permit numbers pertaining to office, retail, multifamily, single-family, industrial, and self-storage development between 1980 and December 2023. The largest 100 cities in the U.S. with populations of more than 200,000 were analyzed.

“Atlanta’s sheer amount of new commercial, industrial, and multifamily construction has vaulted [it] into the ranks of real estate powerhouses like Dallas, Austin, and Miami,” StorageCafe reps noted in an email to Urbanize Atlanta.

But still—14th place?

In a city that’s been transformed (by a population that’s tripled) since the early 1990s, let alone 1980?

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It’s important to note the City of Atlanta—a relative sliver of land mass, with a growing but still meager population of roughly 532,000—was studied in this case, and not the broader metro. (The City of Phoenix, for instance, has an estimated population of 1.6 million—more than three times larger than the City of Atlanta’s, but in a significantly smaller metro area. And metro Dallas’ Fort Worth ranked No. 9 overall in the StorageCafe study—apart from neighboring Dallas at No. 5.)

Still, the City of Atlanta managed to hold its own in the rankings.

One highlight was more than 108 million square feet of office space delivered in the city since 1980—good for third position nationally in that sector, per the study.

Atlanta’s 139,000 multifamily units that have cropped up in the past five decades—11th most nationwide—have “dramatically reshaped [the city’s] skyline,” analysts noted.

The 2000s were Atlanta’s peak decade for the multifamily boom, with more than 5,700 permits issued on average per year.

That pace slowed to about 3,660 permits annually in the 2010s. But following the pandemic, multifamily development has bounced back, with the annual average this decade now north of 4,850 permits.

For better or worse, single-family construction has been a different story since 1980. The City of Atlanta has issued just 29,000 standalone home permits in that timespan. (Compare that with 215,000 permits in Phoenix, the top city in that sector, or No. 2 Houston’s 166,200 homes.)

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New retail space—grappling with an era of e-commerce and shifting consumer habits—has been another low point. Atlanta ranks 16th nationally for new retail space since 1980, but its annual average of 291,000 square feet delivered in the 2020s marks a 45 percent decrease from the teens and a five-decade low, according to the study.

Big picture, analysts found that Southern and Southwestern cities dominated the growth rankings, snatching 15 of the country’s top 20 slots, with Atlanta included.

“As one of the Sunbelt’s biggest boomtowns,” StorageCafe reps wrote, “Atlanta’s housing market has been buoyed by strong demand, but new development still struggles to keep pace with rapid population and job growth.”

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North of Atlanta, made-from-scratch town now under construction Josh Green Wed, 10/16/2024 - 10:24 Site work is officially underway for the next made-from-scratch town center in Atlanta’s suburbs, following a blueprint set by Suwanee, Alpharetta, Cumming, Snellville, and other OTP cities.

After seven years of planning and discussions, sections of a nearly 140-acre concept called Coal Mountain Town Center have broken ground, pushing metro Atlanta’s development boom ever northward toward the North Georgia Mountains.

The project name pays homage to the area’s unincorporated Coal Mountain community with roots dating back to the 1830s—but never any coal.

The mixed-use town center will be located where Browns Bridge Road (Hwy. 369 east) meets Dahlonega Highway (Hwy. 9 north). That’s roughly seven miles northeast of downtown Cumming, due west of Ga. Highway 400 and Lake Lanier, about 50 miles from downtown Atlanta.

National homebuilding giant Toll Brothers gained Forsyth County’s approval to build Coal Mountain Town Center last year.

Eric White, Toll Brothers division president in Atlanta, says site work is underway for a “premier luxury resort-style community” called The Crossing at the Forsyth County site.

Plans call for a variety of townhomes and single-family residences to start opening for sale at The Crossing in summer 2025, according to White.

Planned communal spaces, parking, and centralized buildings at Coal Mountain Town Center, where Browns Bridge Road meets Dahlonega Highway. Ironwood Design Group; designs, Nelson Worldwide

The homes will be situated in the new town center with walkability to restaurants, shops, greenspaces, and walking and biking trails. Onsite amenities call for pickleball courts, a lap pool, and a clubhouse for residents, per White. 

As designed by architecture firm Nelson Worldwide, the Coal Mountain project aims to meld retail, offices, and other uses, while benefiting from proximity to Ga. Highway 400, a nearby Walmart, and North Georgia Premium Outlets mall, a Simon property that annually attracts about 6 million shoppers, developers have said.

The masterplanned social hub calls for more than 700 housing units to eventually be built.

Toll Brothers officials said in 2023 the breakdown for Coal Mountain includes 222 single-family homes, 219 townhomes, 300 apartments, plus 20,200 square feet of offices, and more than 70,000 square feet for retail. A 15,000-square-foot brewery space is reportedly also in the mix.

Ironwood Design Group; designs, Nelson Worldwide

Ironwood Design Group; designs, Nelson Worldwide

Ironwood Design Group, a firm contributing landscape architecture, amenity design, and community design, says the project will honor “the town’s historical roots while fostering a forward-looking ambiance,” weaving in greenspaces, pedestrian connections, and parking lots.

The broader goal is create for north Forsyth County what Halcyon brought to the relatively affluent, fast-growing county’s southern fringes, only with designs influenced by the area’s agricultural history.

Forsyth County Commissioners unanimously approved plans for Coal Mountain Town Center in 2022, setting the stage for Toll Brothers to begin work on the development. So large is the project’s scope, it drove county leaders to create a new zoning district called the Coal Mountain Town Center Overlay.

Ironwood Design Group; designs, Nelson Worldwide

Meanwhile, a few miles south of the Coal Mountain project, Forsyth’s county seat Cumming opened its own mixed-use city center last year.

That project is designed to function as an improved downtown for Cumming, built from scratch, with a popular amphitheater as a core attraction.

Find more Coal Mountain context and depictions of how the community is expected to look and function in the gallery above.

Coal Mountain Town Center's site location off Ga. Highway 400 in north Forsyth County, near Lake Lanier. Google Maps

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Coal Mountain Town Center's site location off Ga. Highway 400 in north Forsyth County, near Lake Lanier. Google Maps

NAI Brannen Goddard; designs, Nelson Worldwide

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How the masterplanned community could link to existing greenspace and a nearby school. NAI Brannen Goddard; designs, Nelson Worldwide

Planned communal spaces, parking, and centralized buildings at Coal Mountain Town Center, where Browns Bridge Road meets Dahlonega Highway. Ironwood Design Group; designs, Nelson Worldwide

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Distinctly modern project takes shape in leafy Virginia-Highland Josh Green Tue, 10/15/2024 - 14:55 Passersby on Virginia-Highland’s leafy Drewry Street have wondered in recent months what a bold, black-painted, modern structure that’s replaced a vacant lot could be.

A laboratory? A custom boutique office building? An elementary school from the future?

Turns out it’s none of the above—but instead the neighborhood’s latest (but certainly not only) example of a large-scale residence with overtly contemporary architecture.

Building permits indicate the single-family dwelling at 791 Drewry St. NE—situated about two blocks east of the Atlanta Beltline’s Eastside Trail—will be a 4,143-square-foot, single-family home with an in-ground pool and spa at its core.

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It’s being built by veteran Atlanta-based developers The Braden Fellman Group, the company initially expected to spare Newport’s South Downtown buildings from foreclosure. (Recent Braden Fellman projects include downtown’s Revival Lofts—previously an abandoned eyesore for nearly two decades—and the adaptive-reuse of Adair Park’s Abrams Fixture Corporation complex.)

In Virginia-Highland, the .3-acre site in question was previously vacant, apart from a few trees. (Complaints had been filed alleging the lot was being used for illegal parking for an adjacent apartment building, but no violations were found, per Department of City Planning records.)

Braden Fellman officials confirm the project will be a private residence. And that its designers are Atlanta-based Choate + Hertlein Architects, the firm responsible for some of the most envelope-pushing and eye-catching modern home projects around Atlanta, in addition to work on Ponce City Market offices, the Revival Lofts, and the 1200 Ponce church conversion, among other work.  

Facade of a single-family residence that stands out despite muted color schemes in Virginia-Highland. Contributed photo

The 791 Drewry St. site in question, prior to construction in early 2022.Google Maps

With its towering chimney, roof ladder, Darth Vader motif, and atypical geometry, the modern house will stand out among Drewry Street’s cottages, Tudors, and larger traditional infill dwellings. But is that a bad thing?

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The 791 Drewry St. site in question, prior to construction in early 2022.Google Maps

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Atlanta Botanical Garden expansion progresses, eyes groundbreaking Josh Green Tue, 10/15/2024 - 12:22 Two years after plans initially came to light for Atlanta Botanical Garden’s first-ever expansion, the landmark Midtown attraction is completing a fundraising campaign while finalizing designs and zoning approvals with an eye on breaking ground next year. Maybe.

The Atlanta Beltline Design Review Committee is scheduled to hear zoning variance requests for the Garden expansion project at its monthly meeting Wednesday.

Those include a request to reduce the width of Piedmont Avenue sidewalks next to the planned expansion from 10 feet to six-feet wide.

According to project leaders, that’s an effort to protect healthy trees near the Piedmont Avenue bridge in the area. A wider sidewalk would require taller retaining walls with larger footings, killing the trees in question, according to a project summary on the Beltline DRC agenda.

The Beltline’s new Northeast Trail will neighbor the planned 8-acre Garden expansion, making it the city’s first cultural institution with a direct Beltline connection.

The Beltline DRC meeting is considered part of the final stages of the rezoning process for the expansion project, according to Garden spokesperson Danny Flanders.

Flanders tells Urbanize Atlanta that Garden officials have nearly completed a $150-million capital campaign that will cover design and development costs and land acquisition for the new grounds.

Earlier timelines had called for the expanded gardens to be unveiled in time for Atlanta’s FIFA World Cup matches in the summer of 2026, but that won’t be possible now.

Current plans call for breaking ground in late 2025, with completion sometime in 2027. But that’s all contingent on storage facility company Public Storage vacating their current building on the expansion site—just north of today’s Garden—and relocating to a new facility on the flipside of Piedmont Park along Monroe Drive.

That’s key to a complex and controversial land swap between the Garden and Public Storage.

Breakdown of current uses where Garden officials envision a "botanical greenway" at the convergence of Piedmont Park, the Beltline, and the expanded Garden.Google Maps; Urbanize Atlanta

Plans for a fountain garden near the orangerie, positioned away from the Beltline. Hoerr Schaudt landscape architects

Exactly where the Public Storage project on Monroe Drive stands isn’t clear.

Company officials have not responded to requests for a construction update, including one emailed Monday. Neighborhood leaders in Virginia-Highland have also said they’re in the dark as to what the project will entail. Building permit information indicates the self-storage facility will stand five stories

Beltline DRC members last year criticized the Public Storage project’s lack of retail space or residential uses such as townhomes as “a missed opportunity” and “a use that does not belong on the Beltline or anywhere near it.” 

Whenever it’s able to proceed, the Garden’s expansion will mark the first since its founding in 1976.

Hoerr Schaudt, a Chicago-based landscape architecture firm, was hired by the Garden in 2022 to lead designs of the expansion, alongside other firms that include Atlanta-based Smith Dalia Architects.

Plans call for some of the Garden’s famed mosaiculture sculptures being visible to Beltline passersby. One such sculpture would be a 20-foot-tall phoenix, symbolizing the city’s endurance, officials have said.Hoerr Schaudt landscape architects

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Hoerr Schaudt officials have said “iconic experiences” in the Garden expansion will include a series of terraced waterfalls, a cavern space, a 14-foot ring waterfall, an amphitheater embedded in a sunken garden, and a large lower garden area with integrated bridges, planted islands, and other features.

Along the Beltline edge, expect a beer garden and restaurant, entry plaza for events and programming, a hub for bikes and pedestrians, display gardens, and a visitors center. On the opposite side, positioned up a hill, would be a statement fountain and jewel-box orangerie, or a greenhouse for growing oranges.

The new section would grow the Garden’s current 30-acre footprint toward the north, lending it what’s essentially a second front door on the Northeast Trail. 

Diagram of how the Garden expansion would be wedged between Piedmont Avenue and the Beltline. Atlanta Botanical Garden

Overview of the planned Botanical Garden expansion, with the Beltline's new Northeast Trail segment depicted at right. Hoerr Schaudt landscape architects

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Overview of the planned Botanical Garden expansion, with the Beltline's new Northeast Trail segment depicted at right. Hoerr Schaudt landscape architects

Breakdown of current uses where Garden officials envision a "botanical greenway" at the convergence of Piedmont Park, the Beltline, and the expanded Garden.Google Maps; Urbanize Atlanta

Plans call for some of the Garden’s famed mosaiculture sculptures being visible to Beltline passersby. One such sculpture would be a 20-foot-tall phoenix, symbolizing the city’s endurance, officials have said.Hoerr Schaudt landscape architects

Plans for a fountain garden near the orangerie, positioned away from the Beltline. Hoerr Schaudt landscape architects

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Diagram of how the Garden expansion would be wedged between Piedmont Avenue and the Beltline. Atlanta Botanical Garden

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In growing Chamblee, City Heights project begins delivering Josh Green Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:43 A study last summer found that ITP city Chamblee is leading the charge in metro Atlanta’s “suburban boom” in terms of population growth rates, swelling by 106 percent and doubling its housing stock since 2012.

Now, another project that supports those findings is starting to arrive.  

Following two years of construction, Chamblee City Heights began leasing efforts in recent weeks at 2124 American Way, replacing an auto repair business and expansive parking lots with five stories of residences and retail space that will include street-side patios.  

The project is part of Chamblee’s broader Town Center vision, an effort involving the city and several development firms to build a denser, walkable, and more cohesive hub of housing and commerce in downtown blocks.  

How one section of apartment community Chamblee City Heights is expected to interact with the street once finished. The Worthington Companies; designs by Rule Joy Trammell Rubio

Chamblee City Heights location (in red, at top) in relation to the city's central business district, MARTA station, and other area landmarks. Google Maps

City Heights, a project by Sandy Springs-based national developer The Worthington Companies, includes 243 apartments and roughly 13,000 square feet of shops and restaurants. It consumed a pointed lot on Town Center’s western edge, about a block from Peachtree Boulevard.

Not all apartments at City Heights have finished construction, but 23 floorplans (all with one or two bedrooms) are in the works overall. Unique features include 10-foot ceilings, smart locks, and trey ceilings in the living rooms of all units.

Listed apartments start at $1,752 monthly for one-bedroom, one-bathroom units with between 798 and 861 square feet.

The priciest rentals currently listed ($2,690 monthly) have two bedrooms and two bathrooms in 1,268 square feet. The community is offering up to eight weeks of free rent as an incentive.

Amenities around City Heights include a community clubroom with a daily breakfast bar, podcast recording studio, lounge, coworking areas, and a theater room. The courtyard has Adirondack-chair group seating and grilling area, while elsewhere is a pet-grooming station, 2,200-square-foot gym and yoga center, and a pool with cabanas and a fireplace described as “resort-style.”

The least expensive Chamblee City Heights floorplan offered right now. The Worthington Companies/Chamblee City Heights

The Worthington Companies; designs by Rule Joy Trammell Rubio

Chamblee’s Downtown Development Authority had purchased five properties within the Town Center project boundaries and selectively sold them off to three different development partners whose proposed uses fit the city vision.

Along with City Heights, the Lumen Chamblee project has delivered 318 apartments and roughly 4,500 square feet of retail. Meanwhile, a proposal with for-sale condos now titled “The Frazier at Old Towne Gordon” has revised its designs to include more units, as developer Windsor Stevens Holdings purchased adjacent land to accommodate the larger scope.

City leaders have pointed to proximity to Chamblee’s MARTA rail station, downtown businesses, and the city’s growing multi-use trail as selling points for the multifamily groundswell.

Retail and tucked-away plaza space. The Worthington Companies; designs by Rule Joy Trammell Rubio

The largest floorplan currently offered: a two-bedroom with 1,268 square feet. The Worthington Companies/Chamblee City Heights

The section of the project closest to Peachtree Boulevard. The Worthington Companies; designs by Rule Joy Trammell Rubio

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Chamblee City Heights location (in red, at top) in relation to the city's central business district, MARTA station, and other area landmarks. Google Maps

How one section of apartment community Chamblee City Heights is expected to interact with the street once finished. The Worthington Companies; designs by Rule Joy Trammell Rubio

Retail and tucked-away plaza space. The Worthington Companies; designs by Rule Joy Trammell Rubio

The section of the project closest to Peachtree Boulevard. The Worthington Companies; designs by Rule Joy Trammell Rubio

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The largest floorplan currently offered: a two-bedroom with 1,268 square feet. The Worthington Companies/Chamblee City Heights

The least expensive Chamblee City Heights floorplan offered right now. The Worthington Companies/Chamblee City Heights

As seen in February 2024, how the City Heights development replaced surface parking lots and an auto collision business a block east of Peachtree Boulevard. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

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Downtown affordable housing build finally moves toward construction Josh Green Mon, 10/14/2024 - 15:20 The long process of financing, planning, and revising a large-scale affordable housing venture on a vacant but centrally located downtown corner appears to be winding down, with construction finally on the horizon.

The team behind the Trinity Central Flats proposal across the street from Atlanta City Hall filed for building permits last week with Atlanta’s Department of City Planning, as Bisnow first reported.

That paperwork sheds light on what the tweaked, finalized version of the mixed-use proposal would bring to the southeast corner of Trinity and Central avenues downtown—nearly three years after city officials picked developers to build it.  

According to building permit filings, the 10-story, brick-and-precast Trinity Central Flats will include 219 apartments at the .84-acre site. It’ll top out at 123 feet tall.

Fleshed-out depiction of the Trinity Central Flats proposal, rising 10 stories from the corner and linked to an existing parking garage. Invest Atlanta/Trinity Central Flats

At ground level, the project now calls for 6,700 square feet of retail space (800 less square feet than earlier designs) in three storefronts positioned along Central Avenue.

Six ordinance variations for the project were approved during the Special Administrative Permit process, according to permit filings.

A bicycle storage room with exterior access, an arts and crafts room, a computer lab, a gym, a laundry facility, and other communal spaces are in the works.

Vacant and fenced-off for well over a decade, the Trinity Central Flats site is within walking distance of three MARTA stations, as city officials have noted in calling it one of Atlanta’s “most convenient locations.”

The Atlanta City Council voted unanimously in spring 2021 to offload the corner parcel for $1 to Invest Atlanta.

Invest Atlanta’s Board of Directors approved up to $3 million in Eastside Tax Allocation District funding in September 2023 to help get Trinity Central Flats off the ground at 104 Trinity Ave.

Invest Atlanta, the city’s economic development arm, is considered a partner in the $72-million, public-private development. The $3 million Eastside TAD Ascension Fund Grant joins a list of other federal and state funding sources, including tax-exempt bonds and tax credits.

Construction is scheduled to be complete in 2026, following an 18-month building process, as Invest Atlanta officials told Urbanize Atlanta last year.  

"Residents will be able to enjoy an 18,000-square foot roof garden on the parking deck," according to the design team. The parking deck will also feature a Solar Harvesting Area.SSOE | Stevens & Wilkinson

Trinity Central Flats will offer rents as low as $893 monthly for 450-square-foot studio units, reserved for tenants earning no more than 50 percent of the area median income. Plans call for other apartments to be reserved for people earning up to 60 and 80 percent AMI.

The largest market-rate rentals in the building—three-bedroom units with 1,165 square feet—will charge $1,532 monthly, according to Invest Atlanta.

Invest Atlanta says 187 units total will be offered at 60 percent AMI or below. The agency lists Radiant Development Partners and Capitol Hill Neighborhood Development Corporation, a neighborhood booster group established in the early 1990s, as project leaders.

The development team was picked in December 2021 following a public selection process. Elsewhere in Atlanta, Radiant is a partner in a Beltline-adjacent project with an affordable housing component near Lindbergh.

The sloped property in question, as seen from Central Avenue. Google Maps

The vacant 1.3-acre site's context downtown. City of Atlanta/Invest Atlanta

Designs by architecture firm SSOE/Stevens & Wilkinson also call for an 18,000-square-foot urban garden atop a connected, existing parking deck next door—and the largest solar array on any multifamily building in Georgia, officials have said.

Those green, sustainable facets are expected to reduce energy use in the building’s common areas by 30 percent, bringing down residential utility bills in the process.

The Trinity Avenue property will remain under Invest Atlanta’s ownership and be leased for 99 years instead of sold outright. That arrangement, as city officials put it in 2021, is meant to help developers “achieve deeper, longer-term affordability for residents and local businesses by saving millions of dollars otherwise spent on land acquisition in a traditional property sale.”

The project might not be the only injection of affordable housing in the area.

Immediately to the east, affordable housing developer Gorman and Company is planning to redevelop part of Trinity United Methodist Church's property on Washington Street into 54 senior housing units, with today's sanctuary transformed into a large event space. 

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Fleshed-out depiction of the Trinity Central Flats proposal, rising 10 stories from the corner and linked to an existing parking garage. Invest Atlanta/Trinity Central Flats

At street level, 6,700 square feet of space is now planned for retail. SSOE | Stevens & Wilkinson

The 1.3-acre parcel in question near City Hall. Atlanta Department of City Planning/Instagram

The Trinity Avenue proposal picked as part of the city's RFP process. SSOE | Stevens & Wilkinson

"Residents will be able to enjoy an 18,000-square foot roof garden on the parking deck," according to the design team. The parking deck will also feature a Solar Harvesting Area.SSOE | Stevens & Wilkinson

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The sloped property in question, as seen from Central Avenue. Google Maps

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Complex with nearly 600 homes nears opening on Marietta Boulevard Josh Green Mon, 10/14/2024 - 12:37 In what’s been coined Atlanta’s Upper Westside, the transition of industrial properties to retail, brewery, and residential hubs is continuing in a significant way this fall.

After launching construction in late 2022, the BRYKS Upper Westside project has begun pre-leasing at 2200 Marietta Boulevard for what will be nearly 600 apartments spread across two buildings, marking another example of large-scale investment in a corridor linking Atlanta’s Westside to the Chattahoochee River and beyond.

The BRYKS project is a Class A joint venture between global real estate firm Golub & Company, Atlanta-based commercial real estate company AB Capital, and Atlanta entrepreneur Thierry François, among others. It features two distinct apartment buildings joined by a common plaza, and it marks Golub’s debut in the Atlanta market.

Aerial depicting the project's first building along Marietta Boulevard. Golub & Company/BRYKS Upper Westside

The BRYKS Upper Westside sky lounge. Golub & Company/BRYKS Upper Westside

Described in marketing materials as a “next-generation luxury residential experience,” the Lord Aeck Sargent-designed complex will include 576 apartments when both phases finish. Another facet will be 12,000 square feet of retail designed to create “an activated streetscape,” per project officials. (We’ve asked for an update on retail leasing and will update this story with any additional information that comes.)

The least expensive rental option currently listed at BRYKS is $1,630 monthly, which gets a second-floor studio with 788 square feet.

The priciest rental—a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment with 1,234 square feet—is asking $3,185 monthly on the top floor, the seventh.

Both options are available beginning Nov. 1. Two months of free rent is being offered as a move-in incentive this year. 

Onsite amenities at BRYKS include a pet spa, dog park, a rooftop lounge, private conference rooms, coworking suites described as “luxe,” a fitness center with a cycling and yoga studio, and a tucked-away, resort-style pool.

A connective plaza between buildings. Golub & Company/BRYKS Upper Westside

 

The BRYKS lobby. Golub & Company/BRYKS Upper Westside

Westside Park, Scofflaw Brewing, Top Golf, The Works, Westside Village, the Beltline corridor, PATH Foundation connecting trails, and Publix-anchored Moores Mill Center have all been cited by project officials as nearby attractions.

Michael Newman, Golub’s president and CEO, said in a project update that Atlanta's “influx of new residents and… strong demand for high-quality multifamily communities” convinced his company to move forward with the “centrally located [project] in one of Atlanta’s most sought-after neighborhoods.”  

Swing up to the gallery for more context and BRYKS preview imagery.

What's called the north building, as seen along Marietta Boulevard, at the nearly 600-unit BRYKS Upper Westside project. Courtesy of Golub & Company; designs, Lord Aeck Sargent

The site's proximity to Vinings (upper left) and Atlantic Station (bottom right). Google Maps

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The site's proximity to Vinings (upper left) and Atlantic Station (bottom right). Google Maps

What's called the north building, as seen along Marietta Boulevard, at the nearly 600-unit BRYKS Upper Westside project. Courtesy of Golub & Company; designs, Lord Aeck Sargent

The south building. Courtesy of Golub & Company; designs, Lord Aeck Sargent

Aerial depicting the project's first building along Marietta Boulevard. Golub & Company/BRYKS Upper Westside

Rendering depicting the project's first amenity lounge. Golub & Company/BRYKS Upper Westside

Plans for the BRYKS Upper Westside gym. Golub & Company/BRYKS Upper Westside

A connective plaza between buildings. Golub & Company/BRYKS Upper Westside

The BRYKS lobby. Golub & Company/BRYKS Upper Westside

The BRYKS Upper Westside sky lounge. Golub & Company/BRYKS Upper Westside

Example of apartment interiors. Golub & Company/BRYKS Upper Westside

In-home perks include quartz countertops, full-size washers and dryers, smart-home tech, and walk-in closets, per developers. Golub & Company/BRYKS Upper Westside

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Amenity lounge. Golub & Company/BRYKS Upper Westside

The sky lounge. Golub & Company/BRYKS Upper Westside

Floorplan for the largest BRYKS Upper Westside floorplan (1,234 square feet) currently listed. Golub & Company/BRYKS Upper Westside

The smallest studio floorplan currently listed counts 788 square feet. Golub & Company/BRYKS Upper Westside

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