Downtown Atlanta has a new important ally. The Metro Atlanta Chamber, at its annual meeting on Nov. 21, spotlighted its new initiative, Downtown Reimagined, to help transform our central city into a bustling neighborhood. It’s a welcome development. Downtown Atlanta can benefit from a concerted and collaborative effort to reinvigorate our central business district. “I […]
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Plans unveiled for early phases of South Downtown’s adaptive reuse revamp
After sitting vacant for nearly two decades, a relatively unassuming mid-rise office stack in South Downtown is bound for a renovation akin to that of Ponce City Market.
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Let’s build Atlanta as a city, not a suburb
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It’s 2018, and the massive amounts of large-scale developments in Atlanta astound both long-time residents as well as newcomers.
The current pace of development rivals any of the other construction booms that Atlanta has had at any time in the modern era.
The danger is that we are replicating the suburban aesthetic and cultural environment of decades past by focusing on parking, car-oriented retail and a suburban design ethos with little regard for how these design choices work within the city.
