140-room hotel to feature “European-style piazza”, rooftop bar, and 4,000 square feet of retail space including two restaurants.
Atlanta’s Eastside Trail is starting to look a lot like New York City’s meatpacking district: a linear park, a market in a giant industrial space, and now a hotel inspired by the architecture surrounding the High Line.
The hotel will be located in Old Fourth Ward, neighboring Krog Street Market and Studioplex. The establishment will face Irwin Street and the Beltline’s Eastside Trail. Guests will have access to other neighboring attractions such as Piedmont Park, via the multi-use trail.
Developers told the Atlanta Business Chroncle that the boutique hotel is set to move on “a very accelerated schedule.”
Christopher Plockelman of Beltway Investment International of Dublin, Ireland is a partner in the $35 million venture. He tells the newspaper that the project plans to break down this spring, and construction should be finalized by Labor Day 2017.
The hotel brand that will headline the property has not been yet been revealed.
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I think the influx of developer money into Atlanta is good for a lot of reasons, but I’ve got to say that the lack of architectural / design creativity is frustrating. I realize that design has (and will) always been influenced by manifestations of the past, but it’d be refreshing to see Atlanta come up with its own concept of what a development should look like.
What makes a city great, at least to me anyway, is the richness and uniqueness of its culture, defined by the amalgamation of its people, experiences, developments, etc. I honestly believe that Atlanta has the qualities to be considered a “great city”, but powers at be seem hell bent on killing (or at least tamping down) the elements it needs to become one.
I’ll admit this; I’m an armchair architect/developer, and a lousy one at best. That said, the magnificence (or brilliance) of NYC design isn’t in the aesthetic, but rather in the means by which it was created. Atlanta should embrace the uniqueness of its own culture for once, and avoid simply becoming the “Basic B*tch of the South”.
No disputing this comment, but even New York, upon observation, is a collection of pretty banal buildings with a few superstars. It’s the agglomeration and density that creates the electricity. I don’t see any resemblance between this building and The Standard in NYC, but at least it is not EIFS like some of the recent Midtown towers. This reminds me more of the character of the Ritz Carlton in Georgetown which is a decent and appropriate building in its context.