The ground level of the Alexan on 8th apartment tower on West Peachtree and 8th Streets will soon have a QDOBA Mexican Eats to serve its 350 residential units, the neighboring NCR world headquarters, and the surrounding, increasingly densifying Midtown strip.
New permits filed with the City of Atlanta call for $250,000 worth of a tenant fit-out for the restaurant.
Expected work includes installation of all new electrical, mechanical, and plumbing for the 2,362-square-foot space, at 880 W Peachtree St. NW.
It will be the only QDOBA location in or near the City’s center, according to the company’s website.
The QDOBA is the second known tenant taking a piece of the 9,400 square feet of street-level retail spaces that were available at Alexan on 8th.
The first, Florida-based Rukus Cycling Studios, which features guided, high-intensity cardio sessions, opened in September.
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The internal loading concept sounds interesting, but it also seems like it would not be too friendly to the pedestrians on the sidewalk.
I believe it’s similar to what they designed for the 725 Ponce/Kroger building.
Interesting, I didn’t realize the 725 building has that feature.
Makes sense though.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your comment, but it seems like the point of the internal loading is actually to be MORE friendly to pedestrians/the streetscape?
Re-looking at the site plan … maybe its not so great. It looks like there are 3 docks. All of which have separate curb cuts (there are very few developments which need, or should be granted more than 1 curb cut).
It’s odd they’d go to the trouble of having a whole loading access alley and then having 2 loading docks which aren’t even accessed from it.
No, you’re not misunderstanding me– you pretty much said what I was thinking.
Ah OK – good.
For the people that inevitably come out of the woodwork to say something like “it’s a big building, it’s going to need loading areas”: please just go take a glance at similar buildings in other cities and tell me how many street-facing loading docks you find. If you can’t think of any maybe start with the ‘walkie talkie’ building in London and the New York Times building in NYC. If the answer is higher than zero I’ll be astounded. This obsession with dedicating 50% of the ground floor to vehicle loading/unloading is a uniquely Atlanta thing.
My apartment looks out over where this development is supposed to be going and about a month ago a bunch of workers showed up to clean-up/out the existing building. They had a dumpster and everything (now gone). It seemed to me they were prepping it for potential tenants, even cleaning the windows. I don’t think we’ll see this development for a long time, but who knows.
This one has been out there for a while. Looks quite nice – hope it moves forward.
This is going to take at least 3-6 months for any movement on this plot for sure.