Atlanta-based real estate development and investment firm Carter has announced that Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta (BBBSMA) will join the list of tenants at MET Atlanta in Adair Park. The Midtown location of the nonprofit’s previous headquarters is now being developed by Greystar into a 32-story micro-unit project.
MET Atlanta’s mixed-use campus is or will soon be home to dozens of local businesses, retail stores, galleries, and restaurants, and bills itself as a creative community of “entrepreneurs, artisans, agencies, and innovators” with a shared passion to do important work.
According to David Yankey, senior director at Carter who oversees leasing at MET Atlanta, it’s the growing community at the campus that attracted BBBSMA to the space.
“A move to Adair Park close to Atlanta’s West End allows us to be closer to many of the families we serve. It provides easy access to our services, whether participants are driving or taking MARTA,” president and CEO of BBBSMA Kwame Johnson said in a press release. “We are looking forward to becoming part of this vibrant neighborhood.”
BBBSMA provides one-on-one mentoring to approximately 1,100 children from 12 metro Atlanta counties annually. The organization has recently begun construction on an 11,000 square foot space at MET Atlanta that it will soon serve as its headquarters.
According to a press release, BBBSMA isn’t the only organization that recently set its sights on MET Atlanta. Apparently, twenty new tenants have been secured for projects in the 1 million-square-foot space over the last year, with more in negotiations.
With all that creative energy — not to mention, some pretty great views of Downtown Atlanta — it’s hard to imagine why any organization wouldn’t want to make a home for itself at MET Atlanta. We predict the mixed-use space has many more projects yet to come.
