Continuity would result from mixed-use project
Marietta Daily Journal Staff Writer
SOUTH COBB - Seamless transition could be the highlight of a mixed-use development proposed directly south of the immaculate Cobb Energy Performing Performing Arts Centre in Cobb's platinum triangle at the intersection of Interstates 75 and 285.
Atlanta-based architectural firm Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart and Associates, the firm that designed the performing arts center and the Cobb Galleria Center, will now design the approximately $150 million, 655,000-square-foot Grove Street Partners development.
"That whole area is in somewhat of a transition, and with the hotel that's proposed and the residential component that's proposed, people actually will be able to live near the performing arts center," architectural firm Principal Bill Reynolds said. "It truly is a mixed-use project that has a lot of synergy because of its proximity to each other."
On Tuesday, Cobb Commissioners will hear the application from Cumberland Boulevard-based developers, who already received what amounts to encomiums from comprehensive reviews by the Atlanta Regional Commission, the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority and Cobb planning commissioners.
"It'll correspond with what's there already," Grove Street partner Chip Groome said. "We're just excited about it and hoping we can pull it all together."
Grove Street is requesting rezoning on the 5.11-acre tract from office-institutional and general commercial to regional retail commercial to develop a mixed-use community with a high-rise hotel, an office building, retail restaurants and residential condominiums.
The five-building development would be on the east side of Cobb Galleria Parkway, north of Cumberland Boulevard and west of Interstate 75.
The hotel will be 22 stories high with 250 rooms and 50 residential condominium units on its top floors, and also will feature a ballroom.
Condominiums would be a minimum 1,200 square-feet priced from $500,000.
The 400,000-square-feet office building would be 16 stories tall.
Following construction, which Groome said might begin in about a year and last up to two-and-a-half years, Grove Street also will relocate to the office building.
"This would be a building that we would develop and own," Groome said. "It's always great to be in your own project."
An underground parking deck would have 840 parking spaces leased to the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority for a future transit station along I-75.
Renderings from the firm reveal what southeast Cobb Planning Commissioner Bob Ott refers to as a pedestrian-friendly "European-type plaza" nestled between buildings.
"I think its real exciting to be able to do this close on the heels of opening the performing arts center," Reynolds added. "It really will become a destination for a lot of people."
The Cumberland-Galleria/Vinings area is far too often overlooked for similar projects announced in the Perimeter area. This will certainly compliment the new Center and spearhead even more development.
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