ATLANTA | Development Thread VI - Page 654

liat91 · #**13061** Posted **Dec 13, 2019, 4:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by sbrptree

Ha! Good luck buying out hundreds and hundreds of property owners....

Like it hasn’t been done before. It would only make sense with development going on around it coupled with its low density. I do agree though that downtown need some work before rezoning Home Park.

I wouldn’t want it all high rises though. Maybe half of it, with the other half townhouses and maybe a decent sized body of water.

GeorgiaPeanuts · #**13062** Posted **Dec 13, 2019, 8:38 PM**

Portman’s Beltline Hotel, starting soon at Beltline and Irwin, you can see the spx alley in the render. Love they made a nice little pocket park here

jpk1292000 · #**13063** Posted **Dec 13, 2019, 9:00 PM**

This is by far the best design I've ever seen out of Portman.

Pemgin · #**13064** Posted **Dec 13, 2019, 9:27 PM**

I'm assuming by Portman you mean JPX and not Portman Holdings because that's a good design.

Martinman · #**13065** Posted **Dec 13, 2019, 9:50 PM**

JPX is no longer developing this.

As long as they don't VE the crap out of this like they did the airport hotel, it's a "meh" for me. Don't love it, don't hate it.

Verge · #**13066** Posted **Dec 13, 2019, 10:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Pemgin

I'm assuming by Portman you mean JPX and not Portman Holdings because that's a good design.

No this is Portman Holdings, not JPX-- and its actually improved from the initial design. Any time frame on construction?

Verge · #**13067** Posted **Dec 13, 2019, 10:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Martinman

JPX is no longer developing this.

As long as they don't VE the crap out of this like they did the airport hotel, it's a "meh" for me. Don't love it, don't hate it.

What exactly does it take?-- name a new building(s) that you do find exciting-- Atlanta or elsewhere--

Verge · #**13068** Posted **Dec 13, 2019, 10:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by Martinman

JPX is no longer developing this.

As long as they don't VE the crap out of this like they did the airport hotel, it's a "meh" for me. Don't love it, don't hate it.

JPX was NEVER developing this-- the original deal was someone else--

DWNTWN · #**13069** Posted **Dec 14, 2019, 2:45 AM**

I love it, and I too wonder what it would take for people in Atlanta on this board, curbed, and reddit to find a building they like.

bigstick · #**13070** Posted **Dec 14, 2019, 3:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by jpk1292000

This is by far the best design I've ever seen out of Portman.

Probably because he is dead...

Street Advocate · #**13071** Posted **Dec 14, 2019, 3:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by DWNTWN

I love it, and I too wonder what it would take for people in Atlanta on this board, curbed, and reddit to find a building they like.

Probably moving to another city.

Nanosolar · #**13072** Posted **Dec 14, 2019, 4:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by DWNTWN

I love it, and I too wonder what it would take for people in Atlanta on this board, curbed, and reddit to find a building they like.

It’s modernist garbage. Squares, squares, ssqqqquuuaaareesss!!!!

Sura · #**13073** Posted **Dec 14, 2019, 5:02 PM**

Martinman · #**13074** Posted **Dec 14, 2019, 7:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by Verge

What exactly does it take?-- name a new building(s) that you do find exciting-- Atlanta or elsewhere--

Star Metals, 760 Ralph McGill, The Interlock, The Charles are all Atlanta projects I am extremely excited about. I really like Waldo's, even the value-engineered version. I think 903 Peachtree and 1018 West Peachtree are potentially quite nice.

The Portman hotel, while getting many of the prerequisite architectural cliches of the moment, is "fine". In totality, however, just doesn't strike as anything special. Sorry.

Pemgin · #**13075** Posted **Dec 14, 2019, 8:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by Martinman

Star Metals, 760 Ralph McGill, The Interlock, The Charles are all Atlanta projects I am extremely excited about. I really like Waldo's, even the value-engineered version. I think 903 Peachtree and 1018 West Peachtree are potentially quite nice.

The Portman hotel, while getting many of the prerequisite architectural cliches of the moment, is "fine". In totality, however, just doesn't strike as anything special. Sorry.

Do you like 1105 West Peachtree?

ATLMidcity · #**13076** Posted **Dec 15, 2019, 5:43 AM**

The occupancy rate detemines whether or not a building is "liked". All of the other BS is just opinions and reflections on someone missing out on his/her ambitions to be an architect.

I'm just sayin'

Street Advocate · #**13077** Posted **Dec 15, 2019, 6:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by ATLMidcity

The occupancy rate detemines whether or not a building is "liked". All of the other BS is just opinions and reflections on someone missing out on his/her ambitions to be architect.

I'm just sayin'

🤦🏻♂️

ATLMidcity · #**13078** Posted **Dec 15, 2019, 7:15 AM**

A hit dog will holler... especially a female with pups.

Street Advocate · #**13079** Posted **Dec 15, 2019, 5:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by ATLMidcity

A hit dog will holler... especially a female with pups.

Occupancy rate has to do with economics and basic supply and demand. Not some uninformed statement on an online forum.

ATLMidcity · #**13080** Posted **Dec 16, 2019, 4:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by Street Advocate

Occupancy rate has to do with economics and basic supply and demand. Not some uninformed statement on an online forum.

Oooh, bless your heart...

West Midtown and Midtown proper are experiencing an unprecedented building boom, but Atlantic Station, which separates the two, hasn't built a high rise office or residential building in a decade. FYI, the 10 story midrise currently under construction is not a high rise.

So what's the problem? Is it the economy? Supply and demand? Lack of rail transit? Incompetence in visionary planners?

You could take any one of the new residential high rises (except student housing) and have it constructed in Atlantic Station and the building may or may not achieve the occupancy rates in the other two districts (regardless of economics and basic supply and demand).

So is it building design that's driving occupancy rates or location, location, location? Just