^ I don't know how many of you have spent time at PCM lately, but these days it attracts a more diverse crowd than the city as a whole.
As for minority representation in renderings, I can tell you that as someone who creates photo renderings for my job, it's likely that the people creating these renderings are based elsewhere. It's bizarre to me that this would past muster, since the most common critique for transportation-planning renderings is inadequate racial representation. You'd have to be purposefully obtuse to create such a rendering if you are based in Atlanta.
People do get upset when a rendering is shown with only white people and they have a right to, particularly when a particular development is perceived as "whitewashing" an area in a literal and figurative sense.
Was in buckhead a bit this weekend visiting friends and family. Wasnt able to snap any photos but:
The old Henri’s redevelopment (irby & Cains Hills) is almost above ground. Looks like they did some underground parking??
The Irby Ave and Roswell Rd development is fenced off.
Clearing is well underway at Camden Paces Phase II.
With these projects rounding out the north end of the neighborhood, the Charles in the center, and the Sutton and Moderate Buckhead at the southern portion, this neighborhood is really shifting towards a pleasant pedestrian experience. I’m really curious if the bars will survive, update to provide no parking between their entrances and the street (and put in a big pedestrian plaza), or if we’ll eventually see high rises from Peachtree to Alberta before we know it.
I would never trust those protruding concrete slab "patios" as far as I could throw one. Concrete sitting outside in the elements with complete 360 degree access to weather... recipe for future disaster. Sure, it has rebar, but so do roads and overpasses and we replace those constantly.
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We met at Starbucks. Not at the same Starbucks but we saw each other at different Starbucks across the street from each other.
I would never trust those protruding concrete slab "patios" as far as I could throw one. Concrete sitting outside in the elements with complete 360 degree access to weather... recipe for future disaster. Sure, it has rebar, but so do roads and overpasses and we replace those constantly.
I wanted to cosign and validate your paranoia. Even newly built bridges are collapsing.
I would never trust those protruding concrete slab "patios" as far as I could throw one. Concrete sitting outside in the elements with complete 360 degree access to weather... recipe for future disaster. Sure, it has rebar, but so do roads and overpasses and we replace those constantly.
I won't vouch for their safety, but wear and tear on roads is light years more than what your patio is going to see...hopefully.
And as FAST and CHEAP as some of this stuff is being built, I won't be surprised to see some of these projects go the way of demolition in my lifetime.
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We met at Starbucks. Not at the same Starbucks but we saw each other at different Starbucks across the street from each other.
And as FAST and CHEAP as some of this stuff is being built, I won't be surprised to see some of these projects go the way of demolition in my lifetime.
If plenty of cheap pre-WWII NYC brick highrises didn't get the wrecking ball, I doubt these will.
In an appearance before the Buckhead Development Review Committee Wednesday, JLB presented a new design that replaces the majority brick and glass architecture of the 13-story residential tower. The revamped exterior will have the beige masonry look of the surrounding Buckhead Village projects, including the St. Regis Atlanta.
Ziegler Cooper Architects is designing the project, which will redevelop the site known as 99 West Paces Ferry Road.
JLB could begin demolition of existing buildings on its three-acre site by early next year.
The developer could break ground sometime later in 2019 on the first phase of the project, which includes 313 apartments and just under 6,000 square feet of street-level retail.
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