Baby pictures of Crescent Terminus in Buckhead, a residential project expected to open for leasing in spring 2014. There’s also a construction cam.
Here we go again
Some intrepid souls are opening another restaurant at Piedmont and Morosgo, where Encore, Aliyah Island Grill, Cafe Jalapeño’s and who-knows-what-else failed to thrive.
Good luck, ya’ll.
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The part of Peachtree between Buckhead Station and Lenox Road is starting to lose some its “recently bombed” look. There’s almost-contiguous sidewalk again on at least one side of the street and some of the streetlights in the new medians even work.
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This flier was taped to the wall near the bottom of a Five Points Station escalator Monday night.
Anyone seen Shaun? He must really be something.
Posted September 12, 2012 at 5:03am in shaun marta german lindbergh buckhead five points November 29 2011
3330 Peachtree is coming down.
The five-story building that once housed the Atlanta campus of American Intercontinental University has been left looking a bit out of place for the last few years as much taller, more modern buildings were erected around it.
The Atlanta Business Chronicle reported in April that the site will be redeveloped as a mixed-used project, which will be built in two phases.
(Source: cityhaul)
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See something or say something: Atlanta by Eric Fischer on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both.
Posted August 9, 2012 at 2:02pm in flickr twitter geodata geotag map plot emergence comparative city form Atlanta ATL Buckhead Cumberland Stone Mountain Decatur Piedmont Park Grant Park Zoo Atlanta Turner Field Braves Georgia Tech Dunwoody Perimeter Mall Downtown
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Now that you mention it, no, I don’t have anything to do besides skulk about on top of parking decks at night.
ATL Urbanist: Is this what transit-oriented development looks like?
Nope. This is not what transit-oriented development looks like. And yet this plan for a new Walmart, complete with an enormous surface parking lot, has been proposed for a piece of land one block away from Atlanta’s Lindbergh MARTA station.
Thomas Wheatley reports on the project today in a..
There’s something conspicuously absent from this conversation: What happens to the people living in what’s left of that apartment complex? Where are they going to go? Do they have representation at the meetings?
Whatever the size of the residential component of the new development, it will almost certainly be marketed as “luxury” rentals and priced accordingly. Even in the somewhat unlikely event that the units are planned as mixed income, the current residents have to live somewhere between the time they’re forced to move out for the demolition and when the new project is finished. There certainly won’t be room for everyone to come back.
For all the breathless excitement that discussions of walkable neighborhoods with easy access to transit generates, it’s frequently in terms of those things as a sort of signing bonus. It’s as if those are luxuries that have to be offered up as bribes to the right people to persuade them to come back to or stay in the city. Forgotten in all of that are many of the people who are already here - people for whom being able to walk to a transit station isn’t part of some car-free/car-lite lifestyle fantasy. It’s the only way they can get by.
Using the words “Buckhead” and “gentrification” in the same sentence isn’t something you see very often, but there’s not much else to call this. See also the demolition of Peachtree Hills Apartments five years ago - Hundreds of units of moderately priced apartments torn down, originally to be replaced by expensive assisted-living condos, but now the site of nothing but chainlink and chest-high weeds.
