Ponce City Market to demolish parking deck in February

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First visible sign of change to iconic Atlanta building slated to begin three months ahead of schedule.

Jamestown Properties, a real estate investment firm headquartered in Atlanta, and its subsidiary, Green Street Properties, today announced in a press release that removal of the parking deck at Ponce City Market will commence shortly now that permitting from the City of Atlanta is complete.

“Ponce City Market began an interior transformation in October 2011 but this work is mostly invisible to the public eye,” Michael Phillips, managing director of Jamestown, said in the release.

“The removal of the 1960’s parking deck marks the beginning of a highly visible and significant effort to reconnect the site to the community through construction of pedestrian and vehicular access points along Glen Iris and North Avenues.”

Anticipated to begin three months ahead of schedule starting in February and continuing over the next four months, the parking deck along Glen Iris Drive will be demolished and the materials will be recycled. There will be no major road closures due to the demolition.

Originally the Sears, Roebuck and Company distribution center, the City of Atlanta purchased the building in 1990 to house employees and renamed it City Hall East. Upon Jamestown’s acquisition in July 2011, it was named Ponce City Market.

Ponce City Market renovations will be complete in spring 2014, according to the release.

The project will open in one phase and be a mix of commercial loft office space, retail, dining, entertainment and residential. Plans call for exciting sustainable initiatives such as a rooftop organic farm and rainwater harvesting. In addition, an urban food market is currently being planned as well as connectivity to the BeltLine.

Decatur’s Dancing Goats Coffee Bar is the first publicly confirmed tenant for Ponce City Market. Early renderings of Ponce City Market can be found here.

 

Caleb J. Spivak

Caleb J. Spivak

Caleb J. Spivak

Caleb J. Spivak

12 Responses

  1. I’m curious… how much parking will remain after the demo?

    If there will be lofts inside the building, I imagine the few surface parking spaces left will be taken up by their vehicles. Where will the office tenants, their clients and PCM visitors park (the people who didn’t take Marta or the Beltline)?

  2. ChadK- I believe the basement of the building is going to be converted to parking, but I am not sure how many spaces that is.

    Also- I kind of remember long term plans involving construction on the surface lots, or at least the lot facing Ponce… is that true or am I making that up? I sure do hope it gets developed eventually.

  3. That parking deck is the most wretched, cramped thing known to man. If you ever had to go to city hall east to get a police report, I think you’d agree.

  4. Careful Caleb. You start posting too many positive things about this development, people are going to start thinking you are on their payroll.

  5. Would it be too much to ask for that big old wrecking ball to make its way west and wipe out half of Midtown while it’s at it? That way this bottom-feeder of a city could be rebuilt with density more suitable to my cosmopolitan sensibilities. One can dream I suppose.

    Oh…and by the way, I am certain that Ponce City Market will suck as hard as all of the other $hit-stained attempts at proper urbanization the hayseeds in this Hooterville have come up with.

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