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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

News Buckhead Ritz-Carlton to add sorely needed un-affordable housing to suffering area

Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:30 PM

The Ritz-Carlton has inked a deal with Post Properties and the Novare Group to make 17 floors of 3630 Peachtree into high-priced condos and penthouses priced between $600,000 and $2 million. It'll be called the Ritz-Carlton Residences.

The commercial and residential building located at the corner of Peachtree and Peachtree-Dunwoody Road will boast Ritz-quality amenities — think private chefs, housekeepers and a concierge — and will act as a perch from which the moneyed Atlanta elite can determine how they will ultimately destroy us all.

After the jump, facts about the project to make you drool and wish you would've gone to law school.

Sure to become one of Atlanta’s premier residential addresses, The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Atlanta, Buckhead will be located amidst world-class shopping, fine dining and Atlanta’s most prestigious neighborhoods. Seventeen floors of one-, two- and three-bedroom Residences will offer spacious, open floorplans, hand-selected custom finishes, dramatic views and The Ritz-Carlton’s famed anticipatory service.

WHERE: 3630 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, GA 30326

A four-acre site at the northwest corner of Peachtree Road and Peachtree-Dunwoody Road.

DEVELOPERS: Post Properties, Inc. and Novare Group

WHEN: Construction began July 2007

Sales begin late-2008

Occupancy mid-2009

SIGNIFICANCE: Atlanta and The Ritz-Carlton have a long history together, and this is a first-of-its-kind opportunity to purchase a Ritz-Carlton branded residence in Atlanta

With a heritage of “Ladies and Gentlemen serving Ladies and Gentlemen,” The Ritz-Carlton is known worldwide for its approach to hospitality and gracious living

ACCESS: Five points of ingress/egress onto Peachtree, Peachtree-Dunwoody and Wieuca Roads, as well as Phipps Blvd.

DETAILS: On floors 18-34, 129 one-, two- and three-bedroom residences, including seven penthouses, are priced from the $600,000s to over $2 million

The Residences will offer a gracious lifestyle from the moment residents enter the signature porte cochère and are greeted by an ambassadorial valet and doorman in the residential lobby

On the 18th and 19th floors, homeowners will enjoy social gathering spaces, including:

- Formal dining room and catering kitchen for entertaining

- Breakfast room and cocktail lounge

- Card tables

- Flat screen televisions

- Screening room

- State-of-the-art fitness center

- Spa treatment room

- Al fresco dining area and outdoor living room

- Saline swimming pool

- Cocktail bar and outdoor fireplace

- Two hotel-inspired guest suites

Hallmark Ritz-Carlton services will also be available, including:

- Housekeeping

- In-home dining

- Concierge and porter

- Private chef

Planned street-level retail and restaurant amenities also include a proposed worldclass, white tablecloth restaurant

Located within blocks of Atlanta’s most desirable cultural, retail, dining and hotel destinations

Views are unobstructed and provide one of the city’s finest panoramas

Floors 1-17 feature 425,000 square feet of Class A office space in 3630 Peachtree, developed in a joint venture between Pope & Land and Duke Realty Corp.

DESIGN: Internationally acclaimed Handel Architects, LLP of New York and Atlanta’s Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart collaborated on the design. The exterior of the tower is a striking glass curtain wall, punctuated by a crystal façade.

Interiors by Campion Platt Architect PC create soothing, textural common spaces. Platt is on Architectural Digest magazine’s “AD 100” list of the world’s top 100 interior architects. He was also named to New York Magazine’s “The City’s 100 Best Architects and Decorators.”

Home interiors by renowned interior designer Robert Brown embrace the rich traditions of the modern south in classically based elements with a nod to modern functionality. Respected for his unique sense of color and attention to detail, Brown was recently named Southeast Designer of the Year by the Atlanta Decorative Arts Center and Veranda magazine.

CONTRACTOR: Brasfield & Gorrie