According to draft agenda for next week’s Midtown Development Review Committee (DRC) meeting, a new application has been submitted for the construction of a mixed-use project located at the northwest corner of 6th and Juniper streets in Midtown.
The “Novare Residential” application calls for a 23-story building including ground floor retail and 320 residential units.
Parking will be in an adjacent deck at the southwest corner of 7th and Juniper streets according to the application.
The location currently is home to dilapidated structures that occupy a stretch of 6th Street between Peachtree and Juniper streets. It has been empty for more than five years since the property owners, Novare Group, told the owners of a several businesses such as Loca Luna and McCrays to relocate so it could construct its condo tower,.
Viewpoint is located on Peachtree Street between 6th and 7th streets. A representative for Novare Group could not be reached late Friday afternoon for comment.
What do you think of the news that Novare Group is finally looking to build on this property?
The Midtown DRC is the City of Atlanta's advisory committee providing formal recommendations to the Bureau of Planning on all Special Administrative Permit (SAP) applications within zoning districts Midtown SPI‐16 and Piedmont SPI‐17.
Other applications to be discussed during the Tuesday, May 8, meeting include:
991 Piedmont Avenue (Gilbert’s Expansion) - Project Type: Interior renovation and exterior façade enhancements to the former Outwrite Bookshop for the purpose of expanding restaurant operations into the new space.
933 Peachtree Street (James Madison Salon) - Project Type: Storefront modifications to create a new entrance to the salon from the sidewalk. New double doors will be recessed inside a vestibule.
1065 Peachtree Street (Café Intermezzo) - Project Type: Storefront modifications for a new restaurant tenant, including a new cover over an outdoor dining area along Peachtree Street.
1080 Peachtree Street (Mi Cocina) - Project Type: Storefront modifications for a new restaurant tenant, including a new door on Peachtree and patio areas along 11th Street and Peachtree.
I understand the cost issue but they should at least be required to position the deck next to the residential structure so that the majority this monstrosity will be behind the residential building.
It should be illegal to force people who don't own a car to pay for the parking in their rent/mortgage. Citywide unbundled parking regulations (where parking is always covered under an optional second contract in any lease or sale, excluding single-family and townhouses) would got along way to making Atlanta's developers and citizens thing twice about car ownership and throwing up more 'dead space' in our city. The younger generation (Millennials) are increasingly car-free by choice, but we continue to design our city as if every person has a car. I've been car-free by choice here since 1996.
Please Ms Kjellgren do not make excuses why Atlanta is truly behind the curve of other cities. With decisions like this Midtown will turn into another Five Points with lots of dead space and bums wandering around.
http://www.novaregroup.com/news_08_30_06.html
The views will be fine, the second structure is set back into the corner so that both towers will have views up and down Peachtree. Diagonal views... not so much, but North/South are the important lines of sight.