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[Martinman]

College Hall of Fame video with rendering... link.

[nyxmike]

I really wish SunTrust would renovate the plaza area/sidewalks around their building. The 90's have come and gone and it could use some freshening up... would also help Downtown look more attractive. Hopefully when the economy finally turns around (who knows when) Peachtree Center will also be renovated like originally planned.

[xivinrah]

nyxmike, on 11 January 2011 - 10:48 PM, said:

I really wish SunTrust would renovate the plaza area/sidewalks around their building. The 90's have come and gone and it could use some freshening up... would also help Downtown look more attractive. Hopefully when the economy finally turns around (who knows when) Peachtree Center will also be renovated like originally planned.

I personally feel like downtown is so dated, rough-looking, and stigmatized with crime and loitering... it needs an overhaul that would require an economic boom. Some of those horribly dilapidated structures south of Alabama St SW, either need to be revitalized or razed, more green space would make the place more attractive. Five Points... where do I even begin... knowing the cost would be substantial- a newer structure needs to facilitate a waiting area for buses that terminate/begin at that station... that way it would help law enforcement to differentiate the transit riders from the undesirables whose loitering constitutes as one of many reasons why very few people see downtown as a good place to live.

Just throwing my own opinions out there... lol I'll admit the Five Points thing... highly unrealistic considering the state that MARTA is in.

Edited by xikartu, 11 January 2011 - 11:16 PM.

[Jim856796]

In Downtown Atlanta, four housing projects were redeveloped in recent years: Techwood Homes, Capital Homes, Grady Homes, and Herndon Homes.

[Martinman]

Two potential downtown projects have surfaced in recent weeks.

-Post Properties is planning an apartment tower on one of the three parcels in Allen Plaza.  Real estate observers say Post has been working on the project in recent weeks but Post maintains that they are in the early stages of any possible development.

Post Eying Downtown Apartments  - ABC

- Two developers dare to dream of putting up an office project in Downtown Atlanta in this economy.  Seven Oaks Co. and Legacy Property Group are proposing a 350,000-square-foot office building, with about 70,000 square feet of retail/entertainment space called 285 Marietta.  The hope is to attract high tech companies (or a TBS expansion) as well as a possible new downtown  attraction.  Of course no ground will be broken without significant amount of the office space being pre-leased.

'Times Square South' proposed - ABC


285 Marietta