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Brookhaven set to move forward on new City Hall soon Josh Green Mon, 09/18/2023 - 15:48 Brookhaven’s quest to visibly stake its claim as an official ITP city is expected to take a significant step forward soon.

Brookhaven became DeKalb County’s 11th city following a referendum process in the summer of 2012, and sometime this fall, city leadership plans to finally move forward with construction of a $78 million City Hall building adjacent to MARTA’s Brookhaven-Oglethorpe University Station—the first step in creating a place-defining city center.

The site in question, where Peachtree Road meets North Druid Hills Road, was formerly a 1.2-acre MARTA parking lot. Acreage adjacent to the station had been the source of development talks that encountered government and community pushback before sputtering out years ago, but redevelopment appears certain this time.

According to an Aug. 31 project update issued by the city, Brookhaven’s contractor has employed a “well-known expediter” to assist with project permitting at the DeKalb County level, which the city deems a “critical path [toward] approval to allow work to start.”

Permitting paperwork was submitted Aug. 17, and it’s expected to take around four weeks for the county to respond.

A development team that includes Sizemore Group architects and Fides Development has also submitted paperwork to the Federal Aviation Administration for permits to erect a crane. Final approval is expected this month, per the city’s late-August update. Logistics for a groundbreaking were still being worked out at the time.

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

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

As the Atlanta Business Chronicle relays, Brookhaven has signed a $13.6 million lease-purchase agreement with MARTA for the land in question that will be good for 50 years. Brookhaven’s overarching 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.

Project officials told the newspaper City Hall is expected to be complete by the middle of 2025, with more than 60 percent of the building—including a rooftop terrace—open to the public.

Plans for Brookhaven City Hall's Peachtree Road facade, with the transit station behind the structure. City of Brookhaven/Sizemore/Fides Development

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

Charlotte-based developer Terwilliger Pappas hopes to finish construction next year 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

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

Plans for Brookhaven City Hall's Peachtree Road facade, with the transit station behind the structure. City of Brookhaven/Sizemore/Fides Development

Subtitle $78M facility to claim section of MARTA parking lot off Peachtree Road

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Details come into focus for massive, walkable southside proposal Josh Green Mon, 09/18/2023 - 13:25 Site plans and other details have emerged for a City of South Fulton project designed for walkability that could mark another example of developer bullishness on the area.

Merrill Trust Group, developer and owner of the Foxhall Resort & Residences in nearby Douglas County,is putting together plans for a mixed-use project called Cedar Grove Village that would span about 67 acres where South Fulton Parkway meets Cedar Grove Road.

The Cedar Grove site is located about 16 miles west of Atlanta’s airport, about nine miles northeast of the master-planned new town Serenbe has become. A shopping center called The Village Shops at Cedar Grove is located across the street, but many other portions of the corridor are undeveloped.

Merrill Trust officials haven’t responded to inquiries for project updates this month, but a new marketing brochure sheds light on exactly what could be bound for South Fulton.

Overview of the 65-acre South Fulton project. Merrill Trust Group

The project's location in relation to Atlanta's airport, the developer's other properties, and other points of interest including Serenbe. Merrill Trust Group

Cedar Grove plans call for 793 residential units total, to include apartments, townhomes, and just 16 standalone houses. About 66,000 square feet of commercial and restaurant space would complement the residential, some of it situated on a promenade.

About 24 acres of open greenspace would be incorporated into the project, and 195 guest parking spaces would be spread throughout, on streets and tucked into alleys as opposed to typical parking lots, according to a site plan.

Merrill Trust officials told the Atlanta Business Chronicle in October 2021 they had recently purchased the property with cash and expected to spend between $225 million and $350 million to develop the acreage. Plans at the time called for townhome prices starting in the $300,000s and for retail spaces to be filled with a healthy grocer, medical offices, patio-heavy restaurants, and training spaces.

The goal, developers said at the time, was to create a relatively high-density project that learned from lessons of car-centric, north OTP development, lending residents who prize airport proximity an approachable homebuying option that doesn’t require driving for all tasks and commutes.

This promenade feature is envisioned as a walkable Cedar Grove Village component. Merrill Trust Group

Breakdown of planned uses, with many townhomes fronting a nature preserve and park with a water feature. Merrill Trust Group

Cedar Grove would mark another significant bet on OTP areas southwest of the airport, where land is generally cheaper and more available than most suburban points north.

Other examples include a mixed-use project that could bring 1,500 housing units to the area that was also recently proposed in South Fulton. A 295-unit multifamily project called Union Green broke ground in July in nearby Union City. And in Chattahoochee Hills, Serenbe project leaders are embarking on construction of a new district expected to cost nearly $300 million.

Partners in the Cedar Grove project are listed as TSW architects as land planner, Prime Engineering, and A&R Engineering for traffic planning.

Find a closer look at what’s in the pipeline for Cedar Grove Village in the gallery above.

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Overview of the 65-acre South Fulton project. Merrill Trust Group

The project's location in relation to Atlanta's airport, the developer's other properties, and other points of interest including Serenbe. Merrill Trust Group

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Breakdown of planned uses, with many townhomes fronting a nature preserve and park with a water feature. Merrill Trust Group

This promenade feature is envisioned as a walkable Cedar Grove Village component. Merrill Trust Group

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Subtitle Cedar Grove Village envisioned as antidote to car-focused sprawl

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ATL scores landmark U.S. Soccer complex. Where should it be built? Josh Green Mon, 09/18/2023 - 08:05 In a decision that’s being called landmark, generational, and among the most important developments in American soccer history, the U.S. Soccer Federation has announced plans to uproot its headquarters from Chicago to Atlanta and build its first-ever designated National Training Center somewhere in the metro.

Which begs the questions: What will that facility look like? And where will it go?

What we know at this point is the soccer complex will be built in part with a $50 million contribution from Atlanta’s resident Warbucks, Arthur Blank, The Home Deport cofounder and owner of Atlanta United and the Falcons.

The facility will serve as U.S. Soccer’s new HQ and what’s described as “a central hub for the entire soccer community, including coaches and referees, to access best-in-class training, technology, and infrastructure to promote successful and sustainable playing environments throughout the country,” per the federation. It will be utilized by all 27 of U.S. Soccer’s National Teams and will host youth tournaments and soccer-related conferences. (Part of Blank’s $50 million grant will be specifically used to build facilities for the federation’s nine Extended National Teams, with an emphasis on supporting the Cerebral Palsy, Deaf, and Power Soccer National Teams.)  

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U.S. Soccer expects to quickly finalize its decision on the National Training Center, picking a site in January next year.

The federation’s CEO and secretary general, JT Batson (a Georgia native), is currently heading the search with help from Deloitte consultants. In terms of what that search entails, U.S. Soccer said this in a Friday announcement:

“[We’ll] be working closely with key partners, stakeholders, and officials across the metro Atlanta community and State of Georgia to gather feedback and earn support from local stakeholders to construct the new center and be a community partner,” reads the statement. “With rising external investment and thriving local economies, all sites currently being evaluated would make excellent locations for the future National Training Center.”

MLSSoccer.com reports the project’s cost hasn’t been finalized, but that the center could be completed enough for the U.S. men’s national team to begin utilizing it before 2026 World Cup matches across North America, during which Mercedes-Benz Stadium will be one of 16 host facilities. MLS Commissioner Don Garber called the National Training Center “one of the most important projects in the history of soccer in America,” during a Saturday announcement ceremony, as the website notes.  

“Our national teams at all levels will finally have a world-class facility that will represent the identity of what soccer in America can be, right here in one of the biggest and one of the most important cities in our country,” Garber continued. “This will have an impact on our sport for generations.”

After uprooting from Colorado Springs, U.S. Soccer has called the South Loop area of Chicago home since 1991 in a complex of refurbished mansions widely known as “Soccer House,” according to The Equalizer.

Yahoo Sports notes U.S. Soccer previously built a National Training Center next to the Galaxy club’s stadium in Carson, California with a large footprint—nine training fields across 125 acres, or nearly six times the size of Centennial Olympic Park. But Los Angeles was deemed too far to travel for European players, and U.S. Soccer has wanted to build its own facility where it would have primary ownership, as opposed to the arrangement with the Galaxy.

The AJC reports Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport’s global connectivity and Atlanta’s mild climate that allows for training all year both worked in the city’s favor. The Atlanta region also “reflects the diversity and evolution of U.S. Soccer, as well as its strong enthusiasm for the sport,” the federation noted. 

Following news of U.S. Soccer’s decision, an Urbanize Atlanta reader named Michael chimed in via email with guesses as to where a presumably very large facility might fit.

“My money is somewhere in the south metro because of proximity to the airport, but someplace on the Westside could be in the running, what with [Blank’s] fondness for reinvigorating that area of Atlanta in particular,” he wrote. “This could be interesting!”

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How Lake Claire project came to be on 'unusable' intown land Josh Green Fri, 09/15/2023 - 15:41 Atlanta is full of tricky hillside plots and flood zones beside creeks and rivers. But tony Lake Claire is not exactly overflowing with available land.

To solve that dilemma, Atlanta-based architect Robert M. Cain came up with a modern home design that incorporates a private bridge and other innovative features on a piece of McLendon Avenue property—once considered "unusable"—that nobody else would touch for decades.

The Lake Claire project is among the residential and commercial properties to be featured on Atlanta Design Festival’s 2023 MA! Architecture Tour, scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 21 and 22. Atlanta tour tickets are $45, while a Serenbe tour with four locations on Oct. 15 costs $25.

MA! officials provided Urbanize Atlanta with a preview of the Cain project this week, outlining how the steel-clad, 2,400-square-foot house came together, tucked away in plain sight just east of Lake Claire Park.

The airy, two-story living room space at ground level. Photography by Fredrik Brauer

Photography by Fredrik Brauer

A small creek snakes through the quarter-acre site. The difficulties of crossing that kept the land undeveloped until construction began in 2019, even though the property was platted as a legal lot of record in the area’s original subdivision, according to Cain.

The bridge’s design and construction had to comply with both City of Atlanta Watershed Management regulations and State of Georgia Environmental Protection Division criteria.

Making matters more complex, according to Cain, all areas of the site inside the zoning setbacks were within the creek’s 25, 50, and 75-foot stream buffers—that is, sections of the site where development would normally be restricted. With “considerable jurisdictional involvement,” the home was built entirely within the stream buffers, per Cain.

Beyond the bridge, the 2,400-square-foot property occupies a quarter-acre site near Lake Claire Park. Photography by Fredrik Brauer

Those buffers dictated that the two-story home be long and linear on its hill.

“Fortunately, the east-west orientation of the house is ideal for our Southern climate, and the design responds with large south-facing windows: perfect for daylighting and natural ventilation,” Cain writes in a project summary.

“Corten steel siding fulfills the owner’s request for low-maintenance exterior materials," Cain continues, "and photovoltaics [solar panels] on the roof substantially reduce energy costs.”

Cisterns at the back of the home capture rainwater for irrigation. Photography by Fredrik Brauer

Photography by Fredrik Brauer

Photography by Fredrik Brauer

Inside, the garage level includes a soaring, two-level living room with dining and kitchen areas attached. Floating stairs lead up to three bedrooms, a home office, and other private spaces.

Cain notes that invasive plant species (English Ivy was clearly an issue in “before” photos) were removed and replaced with native plantings around the property. Cisterns behind the home now harvest rainwater runoff and provide water for irrigation.

For more context, here’s a before/after juxtaposition of the McLendon Avenue property in 2018 versus today.

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Beyond the bridge, the 2,400-square-foot property occupies a quarter-acre site near Lake Claire Park. Photography by Fredrik Brauer

Cisterns at the back of the home capture rainwater for irrigation. Photography by Fredrik Brauer

The airy, two-story living room space at ground level. Photography by Fredrik Brauer

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24 photos: Veil lifts on Portman project fronting Atlanta BeltLine Josh Green Fri, 09/15/2023 - 13:48 Two years after finalized renderings emerged, the fences have come down around an Atlanta BeltLine infill project that bicyclists, walkers, and even electric-powered skateboarders have been slowing down to observe.

Veteran Atlanta developer Portman has been itching to plant a flag in economically fertile BeltLine soil for more than five years, and that’s now come in the form of a six-story, $85-million Class A office project rendered in Darth Vader black.

The 135,000-square-foot project, Junction Krog District, lends a modern contrast to the throwback brick and more traditional designs of Asana Partners’ new buildings across the BeltLine. Beneath a stack of large office balconies, public-accessible aspects of Portman’s development include a vertical terrace with gardens and multiple seating areas, and a long, deep porch.  

Stacked office balconies overlooking the BeltLine. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Vertical beams make for a visual transition from brick to the project's more imposing black facade. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Project officials recently announced the first tenant, Italian restaurant YEPPA&co, is scheduled to open in March in part of 9,000 square feet of commercial space at the building’s base.  

According to the Junction Krog District website, the project includes 203 vehicle parking spaces, available at rates of $150 per month. (More than 730 spaces of street parking, the site notes, are available nearby for free. At least hypothetically.)

At the property's northeast corner, overlooking the BeltLine, these outdoor social spaces are expected to come to life soon. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Portman has been making waves at various points along the BeltLine in recent weeks.

Just north of the Auburn Avenue project, Portman recently closed on 1.3 acres beside the Eastside Trail where Junction Krog District’s second phase is eventually planned to be built.

Farther north on the trail, the company has also scaled back its plans for a blocks-long transformation of Ponce de Leon Avenue, meaning some businesses such as The Local will keep operating for the foreseeable future, as lending rates stay high. And as Bisnow reports, Portman’s plans for overhauling the Amsterdam Walk district have come to light, though there’s no definitive timeline for moving forward there either.

For a glimpse at project renderings (including scrapped early designs) head here. See how the project looks in reality today in the gallery above.

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Beginning on the west-facing, Auburn Avenue side of the project, this angle lends an idea how Junction Krog District's modern designs are juxtaposed with Studioplex's aged brick. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Main garage entry on Auburn Avenue.Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

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Vertical beams make for a visual transition from brick to the project's more imposing black facade. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

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How Junction Krog District fronts Irwin Street today. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Retail spaces and office patios fronting the Eastside Trail, now visible without construction fencing. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Recent plantings separate the mixed-use building from the BeltLine. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

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Portman bought the property for $5.5 million in 2018 and initially envisioned building a boutique hotel. COVID-19 crushed that idea.Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

On the southern edge of the property, on an empty hill left over from previous development, SPX Alley owners Asana Partners agreed to let Portman construct what project heads have called “a meandering staircase or vertical terrace” with gardens and multiple seating areas.Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Raw patio space today. Renderings show this becoming the building's main restaurant. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

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Stacked office balconies overlooking the BeltLine. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Bike parting near a retail kiosk off the BeltLine. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

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How lighting enlivens two previously empty parcels, at left and right, by night. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Beneath the building at center is what's envisioned as a large cafe space with indoor-outdoor hangouts. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

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A glimpse at Junction Krog District secure bike parking on the ground level, where a super-secret artist has applied a mural. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

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At the property's northeast corner, overlooking the BeltLine, these outdoor social spaces are expected to come to life soon. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

The 1.3-acre property in question, at right, in 2019.Google Maps

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Does new Whistler tower set bar for posh student living in Atlanta? Josh Green Fri, 09/15/2023 - 08:18 Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen high-rise student housing sprout across Atlanta with eye-popping skyline views (the Inspire building over Georgia Tech) and absurd amenities (hello, e-gaming theater at downtown’s Reflections tower). But in terms of refinement, The Cheetah strip club’s new neighbor could take things to another level.

Following two years of construction, Austin-based developer LV Collective declared Midtown’s latest off-campus student tower, the 25-story Whistler, open for move-ins a few weeks ago at the edge of Tech Square.

It’s one of four—yes, four—upscale student housing towers to open this summer alone in Midtown and downtown, each aiming to capture renters for the fall semester.

The others are downtown’s The Legacy and Midtown’s Hub Atlanta and the SCAD Forty Four project.

Whistler's north-facing, glass-edge pool views over Midtown today. Whisteratl.com/LV Collective

The Whistler's classic-leaning lobby. Niles Bolton Associates

Marketed squarely at Georgia Tech attendees, the 168-unit Whistler building brings a more sophisticated, almost classical aesthetic that its renderings had promised, all topped with a glass-edge pool that counts views for miles. As architects Niles Bolton Associates point out, the project had to make do with a tight, half-acre corner site where Spring Street meets Abercrombie Place.

Next door, The Cheetah has operated on the same block since the 1980s.  

Beyond the pool, amenities include a spin studio, onsite Daydreamer coffee shop, a two-story clubhouse, bike lockers, and underground parking.

According to Whistler’s Victoria’s Secret catalogue of a website, studio and one-bedroom options have all been rented for this school year.

Which means the least expensive option for living at Whistler right now is the two-bedroom, two-bathroom Walter floorplan, starting at $1,595 per month, per person. That gets 733 square feet.

Students not opposed to sardining/buddying up under one roof can save dough on The Moss floorplan, the building’s largest at 1,460 square feet. Those five-bedroom options (each room has its own attached bathroom) are going for $1,383 per month, per person, once a $750 gift card is factored in.

All apartments come furnished, with a study desk and chair included in each room.  

The glass-edge rooftop pool counts views across Midtown to the north and downtown to the south. Niles Bolton Associates

How the Whistler tower's bottom floors meet the corner of Spring Street and Abercrombie Place. Niles Bolton Associates

Whistler’s off-campus housing joins hundreds of finely appointed student-living options developed on Midtown’s western edge in recent years, in buildings such as The Mark, The Standard, and more recently CA Ventures’ 29-story student-housing tower HERE Atlanta.

Despite the influx, developers still seem bullish the market isn’t saturated. Earlier this month, for instance, LV Collective began construction on yet another off-campus building that will bring nearly 800 more student beds near the Fox Theatre in Midtown.

In the gallery above, have a closer look at how the Whistler project came together, inside and out.

Whistler pool views over downtown. Whisteratl.com/LV Collective

The building's frontage at 859 Spring Street. Niles Bolton Associates

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How the Whistler tower's bottom floors meet the corner of Spring Street and Abercrombie Place. Niles Bolton Associates

The Daydreamer coffee space. Niles Bolton Associates

The Whistler's classic-leaning lobby. Niles Bolton Associates

The glass-edge rooftop pool counts views across Midtown to the north and downtown to the south. Niles Bolton Associates

The building's yoga room with views. Niles Bolton Associates

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Whistler's north-facing, glass-edge pool views over Midtown today. Whisteratl.com/LV Collective

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Glass-edge pool views over Midtown. Whisteratl.com/LV Collective

Whistler pool views over downtown. Whisteratl.com/LV Collective

A sample living space in a larger Whistler unit. Whisteratl.com/LV Collective

Sample kitchen. Whisteratl.com/LV Collective

Example of a larger Whistler bedroom space. Whisteratl.com/LV Collective

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The building's largest floorplan, The Moss, offers five bedrooms and a bathroom for each tenant. Whisteratl.com/LV Collective

The building's frontage at 859 Spring Street. Niles Bolton Associates

How the 859 Spring Street property relates to The Cheetah's parking lot next door, as seen prior to construction.Google Maps

Demolition at the Spring Street site in August 2021. A small corner retail and office building was removed to make way for the tower. Courtesy of Chris Broughton (@chrisindustry)

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Residential project dubbed ‘Camino’ is officially a go Josh Green Thu, 09/14/2023 - 15:38 An infill project that will add hundreds of new housing options to Doraville is about to rev up.

Atlanta-based developer RangeWater Real Estate announced today it plans to break ground Sept. 20 on a residential venture dubbed “Camino” at a vacant parcel off Buford Highway, just inside the Interstate 285 Perimeter.

RangeWater recently closed on 7.5 acres at 3712 Stewart Road to move development forward, marking the company’s 26th project in Georgia and first in Doraville.

Plans for Camino call for a mix of 304 apartments and townhomes, all for rent. Options will range from “micro” studios of just 474 square feet to three-bedroom apartments and townhomes with more than 1,400 square feet.  

The Camino project's location off Buford Highway, just inside Interstate 285. Google Maps

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The Camino site is within walking distance of Doraville’s City Hall and the sprawling new Assembly Atlanta, a TV and film-anchored project with a planned residential component that was pushed back indefinitely early this year.  

RangeWater has agreed to install a new section of the Peachtree Creek Greenway trail as part of Camino’s construction. That will serve as the community’s Stewart Road “front door” and help boost trail connectivity to City Hall and Doraville’s MARTA station, according to a project announcement today.

The 7.5-acre Camino development site in question, as seen in March 2022 along Stewart Road. Google Maps

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Amenities at Camino are expected to include a centralized pool courtyard, podcast studio, rooftop lounge, private speakeasy, a dog park, and coworking offices. Units will include quartz countertops, what’s described as “luxury vinyl tile flooring,” stainless steel appliances, and smart home technology, per RangeWater.

Elsewhere in metro Atlanta, RangeWater recently opened an apartment project with a small retail component called The Vivian along the BeltLine's Southside Trail.  

“Atlanta continues to be a target market for our team to develop, acquire, manage, and build,” Steven Shores, RangeWater chairman and CEO, said in a prepared statement. “Doraville stands out as one of the city's most culturally significant neighborhoods.”  

RangeWater’s in-house construction company expects to deliver Camino in spring 2025.

Elsewhere in Doraville, a $116-million, mixed-use project called Lotus Grove is also taking shape along the Buford Drive corridor. It’s replacing a former Kmart that was shuttered on the 13-acre property more than a decade ago. 

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The Camino project's location off Buford Highway, just inside Interstate 285. Google Maps

The 7.5-acre Camino development site in question, as seen in March 2022 along Stewart Road. Google Maps

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Photos: As opening nears, how Westside Paper project turned out Josh Green Thu, 09/14/2023 - 13:41 The next adaptive-reuse project to take shape across a former industrial property west of Midtown is anticipating an eventful autumn.

As our latest aerial tour of Atlanta illustrates, Westside Paper, developed in a joint venture between Third & Urban and FCP, has finished construction along a bend in West Marietta Street in the Howell Station neighborhood.    

Project reps tell Urbanize Atlanta a festive grand opening for seven signed retailers at the complex—offering everything from fried chicken to lobster mac and cheese to alcoholic popsicles—could come as early as Sept. 30, though plans have yet to be finalized.

Meanwhile, next door, a massive QTS data center expansion remains in development, while construction of a new off-street Atlanta BeltLine link is on the horizon.

The property's future BeltLine spur frontage (below) with evolving Atlanta skylines in the distance.

The 245,000-square-foot project has added new-construction elements to a repurposed 1950s warehouse, with the bulk of it being office space. Westside Paper leaders are negotiating leases with several tenants, and they expected that activity to pick up once the retail portion opens in coming weeks, according to project officials.

In the short term, plans call for continued collaborations with local nonprofits to host events in the district’s new spaces.

The Westside Paper retail lineup will include the second location of Grant Park’s Elsewhere Brewing; a traditional taqueria from chef Santiago Gomez called El Santo Gallo; Ancestral Bottle Shop + Market, a venture by restauranteur Roxana Aguirre that focuses on Mexican spirits and South American wines; elsewhere, homegrown favorites King of Pops have signed on to open a walk-up outpost that will feature pops, soft serve, pop-tails, and slush-tails, plus beer and wine.

Developers announced in 2021 that Pancake Social,Girl Diver,and Boxcar Betty’s (now open) have also been signed for new locations at Westside Paper. Glide Pizza is no longer listed as being in the mix.

Project reps say Westside Paper’s retail component is 80 percent leased today. Earlier forecasts called for opening the first retailers in early 2023.

The 15-acre redevelopment at 950 West Marietta Street continues the adaptive-reuse trend west of Midtown started in the nineties with King Plow—located across the street—and continued by projects like Westside Provisions District and more recently The Works.

The property currently includes 632 parking spaces, though a section of that might be a placeholder, in that it could be replaced with hundreds of apartments in a future Westside Paper phase, as plans filed with the city a year ago indicate.

Overlooking the Westside Paper retail cove.

Next door to Westside Paper, a .75-mile, multi-use trail project called The Spur is expected to break ground early next year as a new link to downtown.

That trail will branch off the Westside BeltLine Connector at Jefferson Street and wend up to West Marietta Street, where a future cycle track is planned, passing Westside Paper and the QTS facility on the way. The $2.9 million project, a collaboration between the Upper Westside Community Improvement District and PATH Foundation, is being funded by the city’s $750 million Moving Atlanta Forward infrastructure package.

Swing up to the gallery for recent aerial photography illustrating how Westside Paper turned out—and its changing context in this formerly industrial section of Atlanta. The next event scheduled at the property is the Automatic Meet-Up, a networking extravaganza, on Oct. 16 and 17.

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Westside Paper's location between Midtown and the new Westside Park. Google Maps

The Westside Paper project as demolition began in earnest at the 15-acre West Midtown industrial property in November 2020. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

The project's northernmost edge along West Marietta Street, at right, as seen in November 2020.Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Westside Paper has remade a 1950s warehouse (at center) along a bend in West Marietta Street. The QTS data center expansion is shown behind it.

Overlooking the Westside Paper retail cove.

The taller office component stands over retail corridors at Westside Paper.

The property's future BeltLine spur frontage (below) with evolving Atlanta skylines in the distance.

Data center construction activity just west of Westside Paper today.

The parking lot at bottom could be redeveloped into more than 300 apartments in a row of new buildings, according to plans filed with the city in 2022.

Breakdown of Westside Paper uses today. Third & Urban/FCP

Subtitle West Marietta Street food-and-beverage hub guns for grand opening in matter of weeks

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Images: Cumming pretty much nailed its new city center Josh Green Thu, 09/14/2023 - 08:18 Metro Atlanta’s impressive roster of historic or built-from-scratch city centers has a new entrant that blends throwback Americana with modern-day functionality. And putt-putt golf.

Just west of Cumming’s quaint old downtown, the mixed-use Cumming City Center has finished major construction and continues to evolve with new tenants in the county seat of one of Georgia’s most rapidly growing places, Forsyth County.

The 75-acre project claimed a hilly, rugged site off Canton Highway, west of Ga. Highway 400 and Lake Lanier, with a goal of creating a timeless social and commercial hub that’s the antithesis of a standard strip mall. A recent Vimeo clip posted by VantagePoint 3D suggests that may have been achieved.

It was a five-year process from initial planning stages to the first wave of business openings, project leaders have said.

“This isn't your typical shopping center—it’s a brand new downtown,” reads a project description by Dwell Design Studio, the architects. “The [topography] was a little crazy, but we made it work to our advantage by creating distinct districts.”VantagePoint 3D; Vimeo

Cumming officials held a ribbon-cutting for the project in summer 2022, but the first business to open—Top KNOTch Boutique, a home décor, gifts, and apparel retailer—didn’t debut until March. Grand openings have continued through this month, and a brewery called Crooked Culture is expected to open soon in a 7,000-square-foot outparcel building.

Today, the city center hosts a farmers market, concert series at the Lou Sobh Amphitheater, and special events ranging from arts fests to car shows and Zumba classes.  

Other built aspects include an 18-hole PuttTek mini-golf course, pocket parks, walking trails, a centralized fountain, public restrooms, and—crucially—relatively discreet surface parking lots and a tucked-away parking garage.

VantagePoint 3D; Vimeo

VantagePoint 3D; Vimeo

As designed by Atlanta-based Dwell Design Studio, the “historical node” features about 117,000 square feet of retail space, new buildings for the Cumming Police Department and Municipal Court, and a small lake, all situated 37 miles north of Midtown. About 14 restaurants are eventually planned, including the brewhouse, project leaders have said.

Developers broke ground on the project in August 2019, but progress was delayed by an exceptionally wet winter that year, and then again by the COVID-19 pandemic.

We’ve reached out to Cumming's mayor and long-tenured city councilmembers this week for info on what other additions are bound for Cumming City Center soon, and we’ll update this story with any details that come.

In the meantime, see highlights of how the project turned out in the gallery above.

The roster of open restaurants, watering holes, retailers, and other businesses listed on the project’s website is as follows:

Sliceability

Homestead

The Well

The Loft

Los Rios Cantina

Vampire Penguin

Tin Cup Grill

Myth & Legend Coffee

Juke N Jive

Good Vibes Nutrition

Avenue of the Oaks

Pieces & Peaches Boutique

Lily Rose Co.

Top Knotch Boutique

Roxy Moxy Boutique

Wright's Fish & Chips

Sugar Polish Nail Bar

Good Chemistry Med Spa

Muse Cabin

Pop.In

Rita West Photography

Irwin Homes

Willis Group Real Estate

Foresite Group

Salon AF

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Overview of Cumming City Center's main green, amphitheater, and water feature, as seen this past summer. VantagePoint 3D; Vimeo

How vintage-style buildings meet the main street, greenspace, and walking trails. VantagePoint 3D; Vimeo

“This isn't your typical shopping center—it’s a brand new downtown,” reads a project description by Dwell Design Studio, the architects. “The [topography] was a little crazy, but we made it work to our advantage by creating distinct districts.”VantagePoint 3D; Vimeo

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The forthcoming, 7,000-square-foot brewery. VantagePoint 3D; Vimeo

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The district's PuttTek mini golf course.VantagePoint 3D; Vimeo

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A 1,145-foot, wooden boardwalk snakes through the property, over a stream, tributaries, and wetlands.VantagePoint 3D; Vimeo

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Cumming City Center's 423 Canton Road location, in relation to the rest of north OTP, Atlanta, and Lake Lanier. Google Maps

Overview of the full Cumming City Center site plan with expanded greenspace. Foresite Group

Subtitle 75-acre project aimed to create distinctive new metro Atlanta downtown while nodding to history

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Fresh details emerge for two forthcoming game hubs beside BeltLine Josh Green Wed, 09/13/2023 - 14:38 Plans are coming into clearer focus for two gaming concepts that plan to use old buildings near Atlanta BeltLine trails in creative new ways.

Atlanta-based Painted Hospitality says the additions to its roster of “Painted” entertainment, hospitality, and food-and-beverage offerings are on pace to open this winter. The company currently operates the Painted Pin in Buckhead andthe Painted Duck in West Midtown.  

The first new concept expected to open, the Painted Pickle, is claiming warehouse space at 279 Ottley Drive in Armour Yards, a former industrial district that will soon be connected to paved BeltLine when the Northeast Trail’s Segment 2 opens this fall, linking the Lindbergh area to Piedmont Park.

The facility will also be adjacent to a forthcoming Northeast Trail stretch the BeltLine recently scored $25 million in federal funding to build.

Location of the Painted Pickle's forthcoming warehouse conversion at 279 Ottley Drive in Armour Yards, just north of Interstate 85. Google Maps

The 32,500-square-foot Painted Pickle is described as a “high end pickleball compeatery™”—in other words, a mix of indoor and outdoor space that melds America’s fastest growing sport with a menu offering everything from sushi to charcuterie, cocktails, local craft beer, artisanal wines, and a stage for live music.

Other spaces will see free competitive pub games and social perks, such as shuffleboard, darts, beach and lawn games, an indoor putting green, ping pong, bucketball, subsoccer tables, and cornhole.

The indoor pickleball component will feature eight courts with permanent nets and a cottage clubhouse. An elevated central seating area will overlook center court, while one signature court will be located outside.

According to project leaders, Painted Pickle is aiming to open in December.

Planned interiors at the Painted Pickle on Ottley Drive. Painted Hospitality/David Heimbuch Architect

Painted Pickle exterior near the BeltLine's under-construction Northeast Trail. Painted Hospitality/David Heimbuch Architect

Meanwhile, along the Eastside Trail in Inman Park, Painted Hospitality is shedding light on what to expect with the entertainment-focused remake of the longtime Brasserie and Neighborhood Cafe at Parish space, which recently began construction.

The North Highland Avenue concept, Painted Park, will include a tunnel that provides a link from the Eastside Trail, beneath a parking lot, to the main building.

Plans call for a “park” component behind a fence next to the Eastside Trail, offering fire pits and a gazebo bar alongside classic beach and lawn games.  

Elsewhere will be two indoor bars, two patios, a lower-level “vintage gaming room” with games such board, table, dice, and card games, plus a dance floor and “floating suspended DJ booth,” according to Painted Hospitality.

A fresh look at how Painted Park's under-construction tunnel component will look and function. Painted Hospitality/W. Jay George Design

Plans for the expanded Eastside Trail-fronting side of the Painted Park concept, previously Parish restaurant in Inman Park. Painted Hospitality/W. Jay George Design

Painted Park’s menu will specialize in “classic and nostalgic bar fare” with small plates, salads and bowls, sandwiches, a house-cut frites section, and a category devoted to “baskets,” per project leaders.    

Justin Amick, Painted Hospitality president and CEO, called the Painted Park location a “special place” in that he and several employees were part of the Concentrics Restaurants team owned by his family that opened Parish some 15 years ago.

“It's a real full circle moment,” Amick said in a prepared statement. “We’re so excited to be coming home where it all started and believe we have one of the best spaces on the entire Eastside Trail.”

Site plan for Painted Park's outdoor components. Painted Hospitality/W. Jay George Design

Painted Park is targeting an opening date in early January, right after New Year's, according to Amick and company.

Menus for both new concepts are being created by Painted Hospitality’s executive chef Thomas Collins, who also oversees the food program at the Painted Pin and Painted Duck.

Find more project renderings and context in the gallery above.

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Location of the Painted Pickle's forthcoming warehouse conversion at 279 Ottley Drive in Armour Yards, just north of Interstate 85. Google Maps

Painted Pickle exterior near the BeltLine's under-construction Northeast Trail. Painted Hospitality/David Heimbuch Architect

Planned interiors at the Painted Pickle on Ottley Drive. Painted Hospitality/David Heimbuch Architect

Plans for the expanded Eastside Trail-fronting side of the Painted Park concept, previously Parish restaurant in Inman Park. Painted Hospitality/W. Jay George Design

A fresh look at how Painted Park's under-construction tunnel component will look and function. Painted Hospitality/W. Jay George Design

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Site plan for Painted Park's outdoor components. Painted Hospitality/W. Jay George Design

The former Parish restaurant and cafe space at 240 N. Highland Ave. as seen in January. Plans call for a restaurant and bar above, and gaming below on the ground floor. W. Jay George Design/The Painted Pin

The current parking lot and driveway behind the building where The Painted Park's pedestrian tunnel and lawn area are planned, with the Eastside Trail depicted at right. W. Jay George Design/The Painted Pin

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Decatur hotel project with zero new parking takes step forward Josh Green Wed, 09/13/2023 - 13:23 A downtown Decatur proposal that could help set a new standard by sopping up excess parking in a walkable ITP setting has taken another step toward breaking ground.

The Decatur Planning Commission during its Tuesday night meeting unanimously approved plans for a dual-branded Hilton concept that would replace three small surface parking lots and low-rise office buildings at 213 Swanton Way, just east of Decatur's Historic Square.  

The project’s two brands would be Tempo, a new lifestyle-focused flag, and Homewood Suites, Hilton’s extended-stay brand. The seven-story project is also notable in that it would include no vehicle-parking component, instead tapping existing space in nearby garages.

Hotel plans that came before the planning commission this week were modified slightly—adding more street trees and a fully protected bike lane—from an earlier presentation to Decatur’s Downtown Development Authority, as planning commission member Jason Friedlander tells Urbanize Atlanta.

The project by Vision Hospitality Group developers and BCA Studios architects will now move on to the Decatur City Commission for consideration.

Detailed look at the building's eastern face over Ponce de Leon Place. Vision Hospitality Group; designs, BCA Studios architecture

The 241-room hotel would consume about half a block behind Taco Mac Decatur, between two large parking decks; one is located at 1 W. Court Square near the DeKalb County Courthouse, and the other stands just east near Inner Voice Brewing, currently used by The Task Force for Global Health.

Both parking structures stand within 300 feet of the hotel site, developers have said. The 1 W. Court Square parking deck alone has 493 spaces.

Vision Hospitality aims to enter into long-term agreements with owners of those decks to use excess parking, operating an around-the-clock valet for guests who arrive by car instead of building parking into the hotel. A food-and-beverage tenant called Bluestone Lane café would be situated at the corner of Ponce de Leon Place, opposite the brewery.

Vision Hospitality officials previously told the DDA they expect many hotel guests will arrive via MARTA or rideshare services.

According to a resolution adopted by the DDA in support of the hotel, the Swanton Way property is currently underutilized with 57 parking spaces and three two-story buildings, all of which would be removed.

The hotel project would be advantageous “for the development of trade, commerce, industry, and employment” while activating unused parking around the DeKalb County seat, per the DDA. 

The properties in question where Swanton Way meets Commerce Drive. Google Maps

The planned cafe component opposite Inner Voice Brewing and other food-and-beverage businesses. Vision Hospitality Group; designs, BCA Studios architecture

Last month, the DDA also approved three special exceptions requested by the developer: to bump up building height from 80 feet max to 82 feet, as necessitated by an elevation change; to allow 100 percent off-site parking; and to reduce street landscaping zone requirements to make way for the guest drop-off lane.

Those exceptions have to be approved by both Decatur’s planning commission and city commission before the hotel is allowed to move forward as planned.

On a related note, just a block away, plans to revitalize the core of Decatur Historic Square received unanimous approval from the city’s commission in June. Called the Decatur Town Center Plan 2.0, that initiative marks Decatur’s first new masterplan for its central downtown area since 1982.

Find a more detailed look at Hilton’s plans for downtown Decatur in the gallery above.

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The half-block in question at 213 Swanton Way, just east of Decatur's Historic Square. Google Maps

Overview of the properties today, with Inner Voice Brewing's building shown just to the bottom left. Google Maps

The properties in question where Swanton Way meets Commerce Drive. Google Maps

Plans for the valet component on the Swanton Way facade. Vision Hospitality Group; designs, BCA Studios architecture

The planned cafe component opposite Inner Voice Brewing and other food-and-beverage businesses. Vision Hospitality Group; designs, BCA Studios architecture

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Plans for north-facing hotel amenities. Vision Hospitality Group; designs, BCA Studios architecture

The floorplan breakdown for the dual-branded hotel building's ground floor. Vision Hospitality Group; designs, BCA Studios architecture

Detailed look at the building's eastern face over Ponce de Leon Place. Vision Hospitality Group; designs, BCA Studios architecture

The Swanton Way facade. Vision Hospitality Group; designs, BCA Studios architecture

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Westside to debut its own Streets Alive-style event next month Josh Green Wed, 09/13/2023 - 08:12 The last time Atlanta Streets Alive rolled through the Howell Mill Road corridor as part of a massive cross-city route in June 2019, roughly 145,000 people showed up to celebrate a car-free lifestyle in the middle of the street.

That’s almost equal to the city populations of Decatur and Athens, combined.

Hoping to recapture that magic as Atlanta Streets Alive rises from the pandemic-induced dead, the Upper Westside Community Improvement District is staging its own streets-opening fiesta across a wide swath of growing neighborhoods two days before Halloween.

They’re calling this Oct. 29 block(s) party the “Westside Stride.” And it’ll actually be a longer event (from noon to 6 p.m.) than three reincarnated Atlanta Streets Alive dates on the calendar for this year.

Atlanta Streets Alive festivities on Howell Mill Road in the late teens. Michael Kahn

For Westside Stride, Howell Mill Road and Marietta Street will be off-limits to cars for 1.5 miles on that Sunday afternoon. The route will stretch from Trabert Avenue near the Atlanta Waterworks complex down to Northside Drive, including a stretch of 17th Street that juts off toward Atlantic Station.  

“This event is all about shining a light on our amazing local businesses,” reads the Westside Pride promotional website. “Dust off your walking shoes/bike/stroller/unicycle/skates and come shop at the maker’s market, have a cold one at the beer garden, or try your hand in the cornhole tournament.” 

Event organizers say the sections of Howell Mill Road and Marietta Street in question will be closed to vehicles Oct. 29 beginning at 9 a.m. But five cross-streets will remain open—at 14th Street, Brady Avenue, 10th Street, 8th Street, and West Marietta Street—for traveling by car across that part of town.

The planned 1.5-mile Westside Stride route in October. Westsidestride.org

Meanwhile, in the center of town, Atlanta Streets Alive will finally mark its return in less than three weeks following a four-year hiatus.

The popular Peachtree Street route will see streets opened from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 24, and then again on Oct. 22 and Nov. 12. The route travels from Mitchell Street in downtown up to 15th Street in Midtown. Find an interactive map for what’s planned on Peachtree over here.

Inspired by Columbia’s famed Ciclovía open-streets movement, Atlanta Streets Alive launched with a small gathering on Edgewood Avenue in 2010. Across the next decade, organizers say it drew 1.7 million participants to 29 open-streets programs that covered 83 miles of Atlanta.

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The planned 1.5-mile Westside Stride route in October. Westsidestride.org

Atlanta Streets Alive festivities on Howell Mill Road in the late teens. Michael Kahn

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