Atlanta Project Thread IV - Page 283

truittclark · #**5641** Posted **Apr 7, 2021, 12:39 PM**

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Teachers Village Atlanta at 98 Cone St. Proposed 445 apartments. 31 stories.

PhunkyPho · #**5642** Posted **Apr 7, 2021, 1:43 PM**

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Teachers Village Atlanta at 98 Cone St. Proposed 445 apartments. 31 stories.

Well, it's a building all right.

alco89 · #**5643** Posted **Apr 7, 2021, 1:58 PM**

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Teachers Village Atlanta at 98 Cone St. Proposed 445 apartments. 31 stories.

So they're tearing down an [admittedly ugly] existing building instead of just building on the surface parking lot next door?

ATLarchitect · #**5644** Posted **Apr 7, 2021, 2:09 PM**

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So they're tearing down an [admittedly ugly] existing building instead of just building on the surface parking lot next door?

That "ugly" existing building is actually a (quite beautiful) parking garage on the inside. It's quite a popular photo spot because of the light and aesthetics on the inside.

Just spitballing but I'm fairly certain that rendering is taken facing NE and the street with cars on it is actually Walton St. NW meaning the project will take up both the existing building/garage and the adjacent surface lot. You can see the surface lot at Ted Turner and Walton and the small buildings on Nassau to the left of the rendering.

ATL_Shin · #**5645** Posted **Apr 7, 2021, 2:20 PM**

ATLarchitect is correct. Additional renderings in the Invest Atlanta packet show that the building will be constructed on the surface lot and leave the existing parking structure intact. (I’m garbage at posting photos from mobile otherwise I would, but Chris Bender tweeted a few photos of it earlier.)

ATLarchitect · #**5646** Posted **Apr 7, 2021, 2:55 PM**

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ATLarchitect is correct. Additional renderings in the Invest Atlanta packet show that the building will be constructed on the surface lot and leave the existing parking structure intact. (I’m garbage at posting photos from mobile otherwise I would, but Chris Bender tweeted a few photos of it earlier.)

Ah we were both wrong. It does go on the surface lot but the adjacent existing garage stays. I'm terrible at linking photos too but here's the C Bender link with more photos/diagrams https://twitter.com/cbenderatl/statu...313221/photo/4

Interestingly S9 Architecture is listed on the diagram (Ponce City Market, 725 Ponce)... didn't know they dipped into affordable housing but their work is pretty top notch. Gives me hope the finished product will actually be much nicer than this initial rendering.

Martinman · #**5647** Posted **Apr 7, 2021, 4:53 PM**

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Teachers Village Atlanta at 98 Cone St. Proposed 445 apartments. 31 stories.

Interesting. It's more residential downtown which is great. Depending on the materials I think it could be a great addition to downtown. Best of all is parking lots are finally dissappearing in the Fairlie-Poplar district.

Buck · #**5648** Posted **Apr 7, 2021, 6:21 PM**

Very encouraging to have this, The Metropolitan and Margaritaville all within a few blocks.

He's Back · #**5649** Posted **Apr 7, 2021, 6:40 PM**

Here are a few more of the Teachers Village project:

NiffTheFox · #**5650** Posted **Apr 7, 2021, 7:03 PM**

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Very encouraging to have this, The Metropolitan and Margaritaville all within a few blocks.

I was just thinking how this is (comparatively) quite a lot of sizable development in the area.

I'm also curious about ATLarchitect's comment on 98 Cone St looking nice on the inside. To me, it looks like trash on the outside, but I'm only basing this on google street view, so I'm interested in seeing links to interior photos, if available.

shivtim · #**5651** Posted **Apr 7, 2021, 7:20 PM**

I think the outside of 98 Cone looks nice, just needs to be refurbished. It has a classic brick office/warehouse look to it. PCM vibes. Anybody know if it was originally built as a parking deck, or was converted to one later? Some ground floor active use would do wonders for this building, similar to what they did with the ground floor of 25 park place annex.

Terminus · #**5652** Posted **Apr 7, 2021, 8:36 PM**

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I think the outside of 98 Cone looks nice, just needs to be refurbished. It has a classic brick office/warehouse look to it. PCM vibes. Anybody know if it was originally built as a parking deck, or was converted to one later? Some ground floor active use would do wonders for this building, similar to what they did with the ground floor of 25 park place annex.

It's a historic parking structure. It was never anything else.

Street Advocate · #**5653** Posted **Apr 7, 2021, 9:57 PM**

Great momentum going on for Downtown. Place could be booming in a year or two.

ATLarchitect · #**5654** Posted **Apr 7, 2021, 10:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by NiffTheFox

I was just thinking how this is (comparatively) quite a lot of sizable development in the area.

I'm also curious about ATLarchitect's comment on 98 Cone St looking nice on the inside. To me, it looks like trash on the outside, but I'm only basing this on google street view, so I'm interested in seeing links to interior photos, if available.

Sorry, I'm no photographer but I do know a few photographers who have used the garage as a set for shoots (a few of my photos I just so happened to still have on my phone: https://imgur.com/a/N8ap1lk). It is quite unique and gives PCM-esque loft vibes. The views from the roof are pretty great, too.

My first thought was surely it wasn't originally a parking garage but now that I look more closely at my photos the ramp and floor structure does appear like it could be original.

Pemgin · #**5655** Posted **Apr 7, 2021, 10:38 PM**

The parking structure is going to be torn down, too? If it's historic, is it worth preserving?

Pemgin · #**5656** Posted **Apr 7, 2021, 10:41 PM**

According to the website of the developer of the Metropolitan, it's only going to be 20 stories. What's up with that? Typo?

https://rayndev.com/

ATLonthebrain · #**5657** Posted **Apr 7, 2021, 10:52 PM**

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According to the website of the developer of the Metropolitan, it's only going to be 20 stories. What's up with that? Typo?

https://rayndev.com/

If you count the stories in the rendering they show on the webpage you easily get to 30-stories and change. So yeah, seems like an obvious typo to me.

ATLotb

jpk1292000 · #**5658** Posted **Apr 8, 2021, 1:23 AM**

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Great momentum going on for Downtown. Place could be booming in a year or two.

Agreed. I mentioned this in another discussion about downtown last fall where posters were (accurately) lamenting the loss of momentum downtown with the pandemic. Just before the pandemic, it felt like downtown was finally starting to take off and then the pandemic hit and homelessness and empty streets seem the rule. I predict that if things keep going in the right direction with the virus that downtown will be busier than it's been in 40 years by next summer

NiffTheFox · #**5659** Posted **Apr 8, 2021, 1:02 PM**

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Sorry, I'm no photographer but I do know a few photographers who have used the garage as a set for shoots (a few of my photos I just so happened to still have on my phone: https://imgur.com/a/N8ap1lk). It is quite unique and gives PCM-esque loft vibes. The views from the roof are pretty great, too.

Thanks - the roof views are nice.

NiffTheFox · #**5660** Posted **Apr 8, 2021, 1:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by ATLonthebrain

If you count the stories in the rendering they show on the webpage you easily get to 30-stories and change. So yeah, seems like an obvious typo to me.

ATLotb

Sometimes floor counts omit parking levels, but based on Terminus' comments on the FAR, 20 floors would seem to be impossibly low either way.