Review Panel Sides With Georgia Tech Foundation Concerning Crum & Forster
Unless preservationists can convince three-fourths of the Atlanta UDC that the panel's findings are wrong, two-thirds of Landmark Midtown building will most likely be demolished.
With a possible hearing concerning the fate of Midtown’s Landmark Crum & Forster building just days away, the Georgia Tech Foundation appears to have scored a significant victory in the battle over the historic structure located at 771 Spring Street. On Wednesday afternoon, the Atlanta Urban Design Commission (UDC) is scheduled to again hear from representatives from both the foundation and preservationists as to why the back two-thirds of the building should or should not be removed in order to make way for a High Performing Computing Center, a potential 24-story, 680,000 square-foot public-private development on the block. Almost two months ago, Georgia Tech representatives explained to the UDC that it was not economically feasible to …
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Hunt Archbold
6:22 pm on Monday, July 2, 2012
At last week’s Atlanta Urban Design Commission hearing, the application for a Type IV Certificate of Appropriateness for demolition due to unreasonable economic return submitted by the Georgia Tech Foundation for the Crum & Forster Building, was deferred to August 8, 2012. more ›