MIDTOWN | Alexan 880 | 22 stories

[smArTaLlone]

• 356 apartments
  
• 10,000 sf retail
  
• Developer: Trammell Crow Residential
• Architect : Rule, Joy, Trammell + Rubio

[smArTaLlone]

Crane went up recently

Originally Posted by briantech

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Photo from Curbed


http://atlanta.curbed.com/2017/4/19/...amenity-photos

[Martinman]

New renderings

Originally Posted by Atlanta3000

[smArTaLlone]

The retail site plan.

[Street Advocate]

Originally Posted by smArTaLlone

The retail site plan

Nice ground floor site plan! Crazy thinking how much retail is coming I Midtown the last few years.

I wish space toward 7th street would remain though to potentially connect back to Spring in the future. It's hard to tell from the renderings.

[trainiac]

Originally Posted by smArTaLlone

The retail site plan.

Used to have lunch at Marlow's a lot 4 or 5 years ago. I just went yesterday to look around: the view out their 8th St window is going to be retail-retail-retail instead parking-parking-parking. Two complete corners right there. Who would have believed it?? Saw the retail in the building across Spring from the Publix. Funny mix of shops but probably perfect for students: tacos, noodles, etc. Laughing Goats across from the MARTA station was packed.

Remember when Mac's moved to make way for all that? Block by block, going north was literally: Cheetah, Macs/drycleaner/strip-club, big sketchy block, Checkers, Inserection/Charlie-G's/sketchy-hotel, Cherry, then the big post office Man! What a difference two building cycles can make ,

[RocketSurgeon]

Originally Posted by Street Advocate

I wish space toward 7th street would remain though to potentially connect back to Spring in the future. It's hard to tell from the renderings.

The space between Alexan and the Renaissance has a curb cut and will be used for a garage entrance, so 7th won't be extended--it would be nice if they put a light there though.

Side note, you say connected back to Spring. It's a misconception that Midtown used to have a full grid and it was broken up over the years. It's always been fragmented. 13th is a good example--many assume it was split around Peachtree at some point, but actually it was never connected there.

[Street Advocate]

Originally Posted by RocketSurgeon

Side note, you say connected back to Spring. It's a misconception that Midtown used to have a full grid and it was broken up over the years. It's always been fragmented. 13th is a good example--many assume it was split around Peachtree at some point, but actually it was never connected there.

Fair clarification, although my use of back is admittedly a little misleading, the term was just a filler verb that could be synonymous with "west" or "through" to Spring. IMO- doesn't matter if there was ever a connection. There should be.

[trainiac]

Originally Posted by RocketSurgeon

The space between Alexan and the Renaissance has a curb cut and will be used for a garage entrance, so 7th won't be extended--it would be nice if they put a light there though.

Side note, you say connected back to Spring. It's a misconception that Midtown used to have a full grid and it was broken up over the years. It's always been fragmented. 13th is a good example--many assume it was split around Peachtree at some point, but actually it was never connected there.

Addendum to your side note: much of midtown's grid has been created since the 1920's look at an old map of central midtown before some rationalization:


I was really glad when they at least stitched part of 11th St together a few years ago. https://atlantahistory.wordpress.com...s-been-screwy/

[RocketSurgeon]

Originally Posted by Street Advocate

Fair clarification, although my use of back is admittedly a little misleading, the term was just a filler verb that could be synonymous with "west" or "through" to Spring. IMO- doesn't matter if there was ever a connection. There should be.

Gotcha. More connectivity is always good but there isn't enough incentive there--Abercrombie is nearby and Alexan doesn't need that frontage for retail. AMLI and the city both had good reasons for extending 15th though, so we got that much!

[smArTaLlone]

Starting to rise

from Curbed

https://atlanta.curbed.com/2017/5/12...a-construction

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https://twitter.com/KevinTKeefe/stat...94784933773313

[smArTaLlone]

I tend forget about this tower. This one seems to be rising slowly.


https://www.instagram.com/p/BaPDOaJF...y=bcballard_ig

[bigstick]

Does anyone know why this is barely moving??? Look at the date and pics on the thread and it is laughable...


Anyone know??????????

[bigstick]

See above, does anyone know why this is barely moving???

[Street Advocate]

Originally Posted by bigstick

See above, does anyone know why this is barely moving???

No idea, but hopefully this gets moving after a few stories in the air.

[RocketSurgeon]

Things usually start slow but this is kind of ridiculous, it took a month to do the second floor. They started the third this week, guess we'll see how that goes. Maybe it's because of the garage.

[trainiac]

Originally Posted by RocketSurgeon

Things usually start slow but this is kind of ridiculous, it took a month to do the second floor. They started the third this week, guess we'll see how that goes. Maybe it's because of the garage.

I wonder if we're starting to see slowdowns because there aren't any vacant lots for staging any more? Imagine even 3 years ago, there would have been 5+ acres of surface parking within a block that could have been used. That little sliver of 8th St gets a lot of freight traffic with Publix too

[Ant131531]

Originally Posted by trainiac

I wonder if we're starting to see slowdowns because there aren't any vacant lots for staging any more? Imagine even 3 years ago, there would have been 5+ acres of surface parking within a block that could have been used. That little sliver of 8th St gets a lot of freight traffic with Publix too

Don't really see that. How do cities like NYC manages to construct projects fairly quickly(in relation to the complexity of the project) when they're so dense?

This isn't a complex project. It's a typical apartment highrise that usually has the same floor plans every floor so it's just stack and stick.