Plans this week were filed for the meetings and events venue near Georgia Tech.
Square on Fifth Atlanta, the recently-competed 25-story mixed-use residential tower at 848 Spring Street NW, will soon be home to The Garage at Tech Square, a non-exclusive space for off-site meetings, as well as an event venue.
A building permit application was filed with City of Atlanta this week to buildout The Garage, a 9,000-square-foot venue available to both corporate partners and information centers near Tech Square who want access to a meeting space.
The Garage will also be available to residents of the Square on Fifth evenings and weekends.
Scott Henderson, owner of The Sandbox Crew, a social club for people who want to make connections at Tech Square, is opening The Garage.
It’s “an underground clubhouse for people creating the future of technology,” Henderson told What Now Atlanta (WNA) in a telephone conversation Wednesday.
Sandbox has partnered with student groups and various Georgia Tech organizations so that they can utilize the space as well. The goal of the Garage is to draw in people from different industries and expertise, who can then have real conversations with each other, connect and collaborate.
The soft-seating club atmosphere provides a stage and is designed to have the look and feel of a boiler room that was repurposed.
Upstairs from The Garage will be a public area for anyone in the neighborhood, and there are other parts of the building that can be rented out as well. Downstairs, half of the space will be a mezzanine and the entire west wall will be glass and steel, with five glass garage doors that open straight. There will also be a pedestrian alleyway for standalone events outdoors, which can then integrate with indoor events, too.
An estimated $850,000 will be spent constructing the space.
