![]() ![]() Aiming to break ground in June or July, the project will rise where the BB&T Atlanta Open tennis tournament has been played for several years (Hines is in talks to host the tourney elsewhere on site, possibly beginning this year). ![]() A rendering of AMLI Market StreetĪlong with Atlantic Yards, the most visible sign that Atlantic Station is beefing up-especially for the half-million Connector drivers who pass it each weekday-will be a contemporary-style stack of 364 apartments by national developer AMLI. Between the two office ventures, Hines predicts about 2,000 more workers will join Atlantic Station’s current daily pool of 4,000. Expect bike-storage facilities, rooftop terraces, and a fitness center. The company built similar T3 (the name refers to buzzwords “timber,” “transit,” and “tech”) concepts in Minneapolis and Chicago, geared toward younger, tech-savvy employees who prefer to commute by foot or bike. Scheduled to break ground in February, this $81-million stack of “creative offices” by Hines-built of sustainable timber beams to lend that vintage, cool vibe millennial workers covet-will consume a parking lot between the Millennium Gate and Target. Rendering courtesy of Hines A rendering of T3 Foundry Park Rendering courtesy of Hines Atlantic Yards “It will be intentionally built to look like it’s been there for a while.” Atlantic Yards “It’s going to feel much different than those glass and marble office towers you see on the other side of the street,” said Garzia. With an aesthetic that echoes adaptive-reuse successes such as Ponce City Market (and the former Atlantic Steel industrial buildings on site), the two-building complex will incorporate green roofs alongside brick and exposed steel, with a 20,000-square-foot slot for a restaurant or retailer at street level. Rendering courtesy of Hines The planned Atlantic Yards developmentĪt what could be described as Atlantic Station’s front door, a $189-million office project called Atlantic Yards is scheduled to launch later this year along 17th Street, filling a deep gap visible from afar. Garzia walked us through several key projects that are fully financed and ready to move forward this year. Projects scheduled to break ground in 2018 are planned to add thousands of workers, hundreds of new residences and hotel rooms, and fundamental changes to how certain facets feel (although the ubiquitous, piped-in music will remain). With its own zip code and 2.5 million square feet of offices, homes, restaurants, and behemoth retail anchors such as IKEA and Dillard’s, Atlantic Station might seem massive now, but it’s less than half built, with several huge holes remaining. “I think it’ll feel much less like a preplanned, corporate-y project and more and more like a diverse district.” “As you see the density, generally speaking, on the Westside continue to grow, will really become a hub,” he said. It’s ambitious, but Hines is confident they have the momentum-and money-to start pulling it off. Beginning in February, a wave of large projects will aim, collectively, to make Atlantic Station feel like less like an island and more a neighborhood of eclectic architecture woven into Midtown. Speaking in Hines’ offices, which Gariza calls the least attractive location in Atlantic Station (taking the worst spaces for yourself is Commercial Real Estate Strategy 101), his claim sounded less like hyperbole once he laid out the details. (The project had risen from the brownfields of a polluted former steel mill to widespread acclaim upon its 2005 debut, but the Great Recession and a reputation for petty crime took a toll.) Garzia is director of leasing for Houston-based real estate group Hines, which bought Atlantic Station for $200 million from the property’s second owner and flipper, North American Properties, in 2015. ![]()
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