Friday, March 4, 2011
News City Hall East details trickle out: Adios parking deck, hello 'food hall?'
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:18 PM
The former CL overlord attended a CREW-Atlanta’s monthly luncheon on Thursday where the bigwigs behind the grand plan — which Edelstein says could be the largest adaptive reuse project in Atlanta history — released some details. So sayeth Ken:
[Jamestown Properties' Michael] Phillips and [Green Street Properties Katharine] Kelley also offered a peak at preliminary renderings of the project (although — drats! — they weren’t ready to make those renderings available for publication). A bird’[s] view shows the parking deck on the west side of the property replaced with a new street grid, walkways, small structures and surface parking. The buildings themselves would be trimmed back to their imposing, red-brick core, but Kelley said “circulation corridors” will be cut through them to make the development pedestrian friendly.Jamestown plans to hedge its bets by balancing the development equally between office, retail and residential — with office and retail coming first because of market conditions. Among the features the panelists spoke most excitedly about: A “food hall” featuring local restaurateurs, very near the spot where an old spur from the Beltline dramatically entered the building to deliver goods to the Sears warehouse.
“It’s a rare day that one of the great restaurants in the city” doesn’t inquire about space inside the building, Phillips said.
The team wants to clean up the interiors and conduct demolition starting in early spring. They hope to open up some retail and office space by 2013. Edelstein's got much more info — including details over whether CHE will be LEED-certified or not — over at his place. Venture over there quick-like.
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I'm worried a bit- those Green Street folks run the bed bug ridden horrible state of disrepair Briarcliff Manor at the corner of Ponce and Highland. Sure they took over management when the place was already in some bad shape but it still needs some work a year or so later. Like serious work. Like bed bug eliminating work.
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Correction to lullabelle: The Briarcliff Summit Apartments building (formerly the Briarcliff Hotel, built in 1925 at 1050 Ponce de Leon Avenue), is indeed in terrible shape, but Green Street Properties isn’t affiliated with it in any way. According to the Fulton Co. tax records on-line, the Briarcliff Summit Apartments are owned by Briarcliff Summit LP II. The property is managed by Lee Asset Management Properties LLC – here’s a link to the property’s Section 8 housing profile http://section-8-housing.findthebest.com/d…
As much as all of us here in the neighborhood would like to see “the old Briarcliff Hotel” sold and renovated, blaming the wrong party for its current sorry state isn’t going to do anyone any good. By comparison, Green Street Properties has done some fabulous projects here in Atlanta and elsewhere – http://greenstreetproperties.com/projects
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