Baby pictures of Crescent Terminus in Buckhead, a residential project expected to open for leasing in spring 2014. There’s also a construction cam.
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The construction webcam for the National Center for Civil and Human Rights is up.
Image: NCCHR image gallery
The long-dead Ramada Inn at the corner of John Wesley Dobbs Avenue and Courtland Street will be renovated to become the first phase of a new Georgia State student housing complex, Atlanta Business Chronicle reported today.
The first phase of the project is scheduled to be completed in summer 2013, with a dormitory tower and parking deck to follow in 2014.
One eyesore down, one dozen to go.
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Speaking of streetcars, the following exchange took place between an elderly couple on the #16 bus today as it inched down Courtland where several lanes are blocked for the streetcar track construction:
- Woman: Oh, this is where they're building that new streetcar
- Man: New streetcar? I remember the OLD streetcars! You remember that?
- Woman: Sure do.
- Man: What they tear 'em out for? Now they gotta do all this stuff all over again.
- Woman: Sure do.
Doesn’t look like much yet, but eventually this will be one end the pedestrian bridge connecting Buckhead Station to Tower Place.
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.
Replacement of the 88-year old Mitchell Street bridge is inching toward completion. Georgia DOT’s summer construction project list says that the new bridge has “a good chance” of opening ahead of its scheduled time, but the original press release projected a May 2012 completion date.
The new bridge will be built with sidewalks, a bike lane on the north side and parking on the south side.
1974 shot of Colony Square construction. Midtown Atlanta.
