Mixed-use project files permits for ‘land development.’
San Diego-based OliverMcMillan Inc., the developers of Buckhead Atlanta (formerly called Streets of Buckhead), is moving forward with construction for the mixed-use development on land it has owned since June, 2011 (the site has set vacant for several years).
McMillian filed two permits with City of Atlanta Thursday for “land development” at the Buckhead site after releasing renderings in September showcasing its vision for the lifeless graveyard of cement parcels.
Between the two permits filed, developing the land the abandoned project occupies, will cost an estimated $15,324,292.
Hermes is the only confirmed tenant for Buckhead Atlanta that has been made public.
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glad to see some news on this place! I look forward to this new vision and glad they have dropped the “rodeo drive of the south.” Let’s just get a nice place to shop/walk around, and this part of town has the bones for it, i think.
If this development were to be worth a $hit, it’d be 3-4 times more dense that it is planned to be. This kind of BS might fly in Norcross, but it shouldn’t at a location like this.
@ urbanist
wow urbanist… That’s all you’ve got today?
So what you’re trying to say is that you’re upset that the project won’t sink when you put it in water…
I’m excited for this to get moving. Let’s go Mr. Oliver, bring some quality and life to the area!
Who follows this blog anymore other than the Caleb, urbanist & some poor looser who can’t sleep at night. Thank you “eater & curbed” for raising the bar and drowning out buffoonery…
Finally this city is evolving too bad wan has tarnished so many good people’s reputations
I’m happy to see an end to the dead zone in Buckhead. But I’m not excited about this “new vision” at all. I liked the idea of the “Rodeo Drive of the South”. It made the area a destination unique to this city (and while I’m not one of them, there are definitely people here that could have afforded it). Now it just seems like another Atlantic Station, Emory Point, etc..
$15 million? That’s all they plan on spending to get this low density nightmare back up and running.
If this city had any sense at all it would take that $15 million, pave over half of Piedmont Park and put 12,000 apartments massed in 17 highrises in. That way this crappy city would be more dense and I would be happier living here.
It doesn’t matter though. I am leaving this hick town soon…but not soon enough!
hi blurbanist, that figure is only for “land development.” more permits will funnel through at higher amounts as time goes by – stay tuned!
–cjs
@ Seabass – Yep. That’s the most glaringly obvious problem.
@ Conflicted – How exactly is this city evolving into anything but a big busted strip mall? Palomar hotel turns into a Marriott. A piece of super-valuable real estate gets developed into a Hilton Garden Inn. A project that is going to take up more prime real estate, in a super wealthy zip-code, is going to be developed as a lot of single story buildings with a car-centric infrastructure. Delegates from Ackworth are stalling out a vote on a tax to help provide much needed funds to our city’s public transportation infrastructure. The city is sinking millions into a street car to run back and forth between two sparsely populated neighborhoods (The People Mover, part II anyone?). A massive redevelopment plan is underway to turn a large, blighted piece of land, in an empty neighborhood, into a huge mixed use community with an abundance of office and retail space that this city does not currently have the demand for (Atlantic Station, part II anyone?). I could keep going, but if you don’t get the point by now, you never will.
@ Blurb – Not bad…you kind of get it. Except that I think Piedmont Park might be one of the very few things this city has ever done right. Of course, it was developed long before Atlanta entered into it’s more modern phase of suburbanization.
@Blurbanist
“If this city had any sense at all it would take that $15 million, pave over half of Piedmont Park and put 12,000 apartments massed in 17 highrises in.”
That potentially is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard in my life. Mainly because Piedmont Park is a great space. The buildings that line it are of proper scale and historicism, and high rises on top of them takes away the pedestrian scale. But mainly, even jokingly a sea of high rises is not the solution. Pruitt Igoe ring a bell. Maybe Bedstuy Stuyvesynt or Cabrini Green. This myth of more high rises, and it being the only method of high density development is terrible. Look at Vancouver. Excellent streetscape with appropriate scaled buildings. The streets are lined with low to mid rise buildings with high rises taking the back seat so that the experience on the street is what it should be.
I agree that this development is not the best idea. From the renderings it looks more like a show lot for the Buckhead rich and famous. But convincing the people of Buckhead that they need more local businesses in smaller scale development with a more diverse mix of housing incomes in a proper streetscape will never fly. The concentration needs to remain on improving Midtown, Downtown, East and South Atlanta. Each of these places is coming into their own and has made huge strides from years ago.
The streetcar, while on the surface seems like a horrible idea. But when Phase II is taken into account it makes great sense. For the vibrancy of downtown it does as well, hopefully acting as a catlyst for change of once great areas that have fallen desolate. The bones are still there, and it has been proven time and time again that rail transportation represents a permanance to neighborhoods often allowing them to experience a rebirth.
Ok guys… “blurbanist” is clearly poking fun at “urbanist”. They aren’t being serious…
Bloated online ego’s duly noted here. Check.
Just watch, Buckhead Atlanta will become the new Atlantic Station. A joke since
it’s inception.
A prime piece of real estate developed into a Hilton Garden Inn, my god that never happens in “better” cities. How we will ever survive? What a joke that capitalism and the free market prevail and developers have purchased a lot previously undeveloped and have plans to build things of which they have determined there is a demand for. I don’t know where you work but some of the biggest companies on earth use these hotels for business travel and it makes perfect sense for the neighborhood.
http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=hilton+garden+inn+new+york&fb=1&gl=us&hq=hilton+garden+inn&hnear=0x89c24fa5d33f083b:0xc80b8f06e177fe62,New+York,+NY&sa=X&ei=Srk5T7PTBY6Xtwejg7HfCg&ved=0CEIQyBM
Good for Hilton that Chelsea, Times Square, and Herald Square are such undesirable pieces of real estate.
Good thing Caleb has the North American job because this site has become a giant joke that people just come to to make fun of this Urbanist moron. Luckily we have Eater, Curbed, and Midtown Patch some actual community news.
@ JT – you must be in cahoots with that other moron that suggested that just because NYC had a handful of “gimmicky” restaurants, that it was a clear indication that it was acceptable for Atlanta to add yet another “gimmicky” restaurant. I won’t bother to mention all the excellent hotels within spitting distance of the HGI’s on your map, because…well, that would take too long…and it would be too pointless to point out how much of a dipshit you are, again.
Well i will mention the great hotels within “spitting distance” as you so eloquently put it of the Atlanta Hilton Garden Inn. The Four Seasons, The Loews, Hotel Indigo, The Glenn, The Georgian Terrace. Thats just a few within 2 miles of just the Midtown HGI in an area with 1/100 the population density of Manhattan, I’ll also throw in the Buckhead St. Regis. Let us not forget that we are also mired in a recession that we cannot weather quite as well as the country’s biggest economy, that saw us lose proposed hotels like the Midtown Intercontinental, and Baccarat.
Keep throwing out those very well thought out and intellectual insults such as “dip$hit” it makes your arguments sound so much more valid.
Thanks…you also just named almost everyone one of Atlanta’s “great” hotels (which, by the way, Indigo is not). Add in the Ritz (one of which is in a horrible neighborhood, both of which are terribly stale), the Ellis (which is in a horrible neighborhood), and the three W’s, and that’s about it. Now, apply that 2 mile radius to many, many other places, and I think you’d find a lot more. It’s ok if you love mediocrity…just don’t try to defend it. It’s sad.
Honestly the negativity spouted by some on this site in incredible. Yeah in an ideal world every spare space or parking lot would be taken over by independent, boutiquey type businesses who would thrive and everyone would be happy and rich….BUT this is 2012, companies are dying on their arses every minute. Surely we should be happy that anyone is willing to plough money into the city right now?
Cause they know whats about to happen in Cali…good power move excited…Atlanta will finally get its culture and its right design to the city that it deserves..