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Originally Posted by ATLmangum
Any updates from last nights DRC meeting?
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NEW APPLICATION: 1372 Peachtree Street (Office Renovation)
This is a renovation of a three story office building with Peachtree St frontage that has been vacant for over a decade. They plan to make the front of the building mostly glass. The big change, though is the addition of a stairwell in front of the building. They claim the building has an inadequate internal system of stairs and an exterior stairwell was necessary. Most of the discussion centered around the treatment of the stairwell. The committee was very complimentary of the project as a whole.
Also, Atlanta Business Chronicle is reporting that WeWork will occupy the building. See
here (paywall).
FOLLOW-UP: 195 Thirteenth Street, Lennar Multifamily Communities
An updated, higher quality rendering was presented for this building. I expect Midtown ATL will publish it with their summary shortly. The building has a white exterior with wood finishes along the street front. The discussion centered around the treatment of the parking podium exterior, especially on the south side, to make it as pleasant as possible for neighbors. There was push-back from the committee with respect to how close the balconies were to the property lines. It appeared the committee was unwilling to recommend granting a variance on this issue.
FOLLOW-UP: SLS Atlanta Hotel & Residences, Trillist
Not a whole lot new to report here. They indicated, if at all possible, they would like to receive approval from the committee so they can file their SAP as soon as Friday. It sounded like they were in a hurry to get this one started.
Also of note, as previously reported, this project will share a service (loading/unloading) area with a future Selig development directly to the west and the Lure restaurant on the south. The plans and renderings they presented this time included the service area. It looks like they will build it as part of this project. It had the same exterior treatment as the SLS building (checkered pattern).
NEW APPLICATION: 1018 West Peachtree Street, Comcast
No one was happy about this project. They repeatedly questioned why Comcast is wasting prime real estate to build an equipment center that will need up to 10 exterior industrial cooling units and six exterior backup generators. There was concern about noise, aesthetics, and about how this would impact the new Hanover West Peachtree project under construction directly to the south as well as any future neighboring developments.
Comcast is apparently in an arms race with Google/ATT with respect to fiber infrastructure and wants to expand capacity ASAP with little concern for the long term plans for the site. They did indicate that there is some possibility that Comcast may develop or sell the eastern portion of the site.
At least they plan to upgrade the sidewalks/streetscape on West Peachtree and add greenery to the Spring St side.