Developer makes progress toward converting gigantic hole into 1.5 million square-foot, mixed-use development.
The cranes over Buckhead swung into action Tuesday as developer OliverMcMillan started construction on the mixed-use community, Buckhead Atlanta, according to a press release.
“For years, we have anticipated the start of construction on the transformative Buckhead Atlanta, which, when completed, will be a sign of Atlanta’s resilience and innovation,” Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said in the release.
“A rejuvenated Buckhead will not only attract the nation’s top developers and retailers but thousands of new consumers and residents. I congratulate OliverMcMillan and everyone involved and wish them well on this project.”
Buckhead Atlanta will be a mix of urban residential, retailers, and restaurants all combined in one walkable destination.
Hermès, the French high-fashion design house, will be the first of many retailers to open at Buckhead Atlanta, something What Now Atlanta learned in September, 2011.
The completed project will offer 300,000 square feet of upscale retail stores, restaurants and cafes, over 100,000 square feet of office space and 370 luxury high-rise residences, the release notes.
Buckhead Atlanta will total around 1.5 million square feet located on 8 acres across six city blocks.
Buckhead Atlanta is designed as a completely walkable community that will connect two main arteries of Atlanta at Peachtree and West Paces where local residents and bustling life collide.
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Have they come out and announced any new tenants yet?
So excited for this!!!
Great…
Another place that will end up like Atlantic Station.
This project has some key differences from Atlantic Station. It is more of a revitalization of the existing Buckhead Village into a walkable, vibrant community center that connects well with the surrounding neighborhoods. (Unlike Atlantic Station which is kind of like an isolated island.) Hopefully the Buckhead Village will be as successful as the Georgetown neighborhood in Washington D.C. in transitioning from a nightclub/bar district into more of a luxury retail, dining, and lifestyle center. It certainly has the potential.
Haha…to call this place a “walkable” community, like it’s going to be a carless utopia is like saying Lenox Mall is a walkable community. There is obviously no public transportation linkage here (and I won’t count miserable bus service as a public transportation linkage), and to do anything here will require a car. Everyone who lives in one of the apartments here will also have a car…so you have a large outdoor shopping mall, complete with faux european architecture, making everyone shopping at the international luxe chain retailers feel extra fancy. Calling this place “buckhead” is actually perfect, as it will embody everything that “Buckhead” is – fake, pretentious, sterile, and tasteless.
If anyone is pretentious it’s you Urbanist.
Urbanist is upset becuase this might compete with his mall-life. HE LOVES THE MALL!
Urbanist – I highly doubt you would know “taste” if you tripped over it.