South Midtown Bustling with Major Construction
Work begins on a 280 apartment mixed-use project near Juniper and Ponce de Leon avenues, while developers are ready to begin building the Georgia Proton Treatment Center across the street.
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The sites and sounds of construction are going to be even more prevalent in south Midtown in the days ahead.
Last month, work began on 131 Ponce de Leon Avenue, a 280 apartment mixed-use project on a 2.5-acre property bounded by Juniper Street, and Ponce de Leon, North and a portion of Piedmont avenues. The site — located at 131 Ponce — sold last year for $6.5 million and includes the entire block except for St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, which was once home to the well-known Abbey restaurant.
The property includes famed architect I.M. Pei's first office building, the former Gulf Oil Building, which most recently had been used as office space by small businesses and architects.
The buyer was a joint venture between Sereo Group and Faison Enterprises Inc. and the Charlotte, N.C. headquartered firms are now constructing a $50 million project that will include 3,800 square feet of street front office space. The garden-style apartments will incorporate two levels of concrete podium with four stories of wood frame construction above.
About 80 percent of the apartments will be studios or one-bedrooms while 393 internal parking spaces will not be visible from the street.
About one-third of the "Pei" building near the intersection of Ponce and Juniper will be retained/restored and will include many of the project's amenities including a leasing office, fitness club, pool, lounge and business area.
And to the west across the street, ground will very soon break on a state-of-the-art, $225 million, 115,000 square-foot cancer-treating proton facility on a 2.39-acre property bounded by Peachtree St., North Ave., Juniper St., and Ponce de Leon Ave.
The Georgia Proton Treatment Center at 615 Peachtree St., the state’s first proton therapy facility and just the 10th in the country, is a joint venture by Emory Healthcare and Advanced Particle Therapy, LLC of San Diego. When completed, it will employ approximately 110 professionals and treat around 1,900 patients annually.
It will feature five treatment rooms, four with 270-ton rotational gantries that will be positioned along Juniper. The service vehicle entrance will be on North while another entrance, which will lead to an interior 180-car parking lot, will be positioned on Ponce.
The main pedestrian entrance to the project will be at the corner of Peachtree and North with retail space stretching along portions of Peachtree - the only retail space offered in the plans.
It is expected to take about three years to build and open, utilizing as many as 300 on-site construction workers.
And in addition to these two projects, ground broke last month a few blocks to the north on the $63 million high-rise 100 6th Street, which will feature 320 apartments and 11,500 square feet of retail in a 23-story tower situated between Juniper and Peachtree streets.
Busy building in the area for sure.
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But wait,
7:59 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
WOW, huge improvement to the design of the apartment on ponce. That looks a million times better than the generic preliminary renderings they proposed last time around. Nice to see things kicking up around here!
AlwaysGettingBetter
10:25 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
from APT site:
"Selective cell destruction: protons vs. standard radiation
In conventional x-ray treatment, the energy from a single conventional x-ray beam is directed to normal tissues near the body's surface, while harmful energy is deposited beyond the cancer site. This uneconomical pattern of energy placement can result in damage to healthy tissues, preventing physicians from using a sufficient dose of radiation to control the cancer.
Protons, on the other hand, are energized to measurable, depth-specific velocities. As the protons move through the body toward physician-aimed locations, they slow down, causing increased interaction with orbiting electrons.
Maximum interaction with electrons occurs as the protons approach their targeted stopping point. That’s when maximum energy is released within cancer area, while the surrounding healthy cells receive significantly less injury."
These projects look great. That corner lot, behind "The Ponce" condominiums has been vacant for 20+ years....good to see something will be done with it. I was hoping for a park.
There is a lot of HIGH DENSITY residential building going on..., the city is going to get crowded but alive....and the shops/hangouts will come so this is all very good.
I'm glad I live in SF Home residential area...so there'll be less congestion for me!
dm
10:57 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
So who is going to see that the Department of Public Works keeps the city owned sidewalk right of way open instead of ceding it to every developer with a dollar. It won't be District 2 council representative Kwanza Hall or Mayor Reed's hand picked commissioner of public works, Robert Mendoza. Look how many developments in Midtown have closed sidewalks...6th and Juniper, 12th and Crescent, and the Hyatt remodel at 10th anf Juniper. I am all for the development but do we have to further endanger pedestrian traffic to do it? Atlanta is the only major city in the country that closes a sidewalk for years at a time in order to grow. That is a distinction that is not worthy of us.
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4:26 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
with the state of the sidewalks in this city, you're probably better off.
and besides, are you really complaining when we haven't had any significant development get underway in at least the past 4 years in midtown?
JM Hurricane
11:05 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
Before all this opens the homeless/vagabond issue in that area needs to be addressed. The church there provides support for the homeless and unfortunately they malinger along with the prostitutes on Piedmont.
Rich
1:45 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
The I.M. Pei / Gulf Oil Building has been completely demolished! There is nothing left but the foundation. Any word on why this happened?
midtownblue
2:47 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
According to the information at the link below, the facade was to be removed prior to demolition of the remainder of the building. It is to be replaced during construction.
http://www.atlantapreservationcenter.com/impei
T
5:41 pm on Sunday, February 24, 2013
Yeah, right. It's gone. Gone. Are they really going to replicate the facade? The building has been flattened,