619 Ponce is a four-story mass timber loft office building at Ponce City Market in Atlanta, developed by real estate investment and management firm Jamestown. The building, which includes 87,000 square feet (8,080 m2) of office space and 27,000 square feet (2,508 m2) of retail space, is being constructed with local, Georgia-grown timber and targeting […]
JAMESTOWN is a design-focused real estate investment and management company that specializes in adaptive reuse, with a mission to transform spaces into innovation hubs and community centers. Jamestown’s Ponce City Market is a result of the transformation of a former Sears, Roebuck & Co. building, originally constructed in 1926, into a mixed-use community hub with office space, retail space, restaurants, and 259 multifamily residential units. The project, which opened in 2015, highlights the impact that building reuse has on a project’s ability to reduce material waste and increase authentic placemaking.
Ponce City Market is a 2.1 million-square-foot mixed-use redevelopment of a former Sears warehouse that opened in phases between 2013 and 2015 in Atlanta. The development houses 259 residential units, 330,000 square feet of retail space, and 550,000 square feet of office space. The project was built in a historic warehouse adjacent to the Atlanta BeltLine trail and incorporates numerous features to promote active transportation access. The BeltLine is a growing urban project in Atlanta that connects otherwise-disparate parts of the city with a pedestrian path that runs through many of the city’s parks. Ponce City Market has successfully filled almost all of its office space, and its retail and food options provide a vast variety of selections for residents and visitors. The redevelopment of Ponce City Market is a major center for activity between Atlanta’s growing BeltLine Trail and the Historic Fourth Ward Park, which solved the site’s stormwater drainage problems.
Certified green—the first high-rise office building in the world to be precertified by LEED-CS (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design–Core and Shell Development program) at the Silver level and, upon completion, the second to be certified by LEED at the Gold level—1180 Peachtree is a striking icon that has redefined the epicenter of Atlanta’s urban renaissance and enhanced the city skyline. Located at the center of Midtown—a four-square-mile (10 sq km2) neighborhood between downtown to the south and Buckhead to the north—the 41-story tower at the corner of Peachtree and 14th Streets anticipates the Santiago Calatrava–designed future home of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO). An extraordinarily narrow site challenged the development team to accommodate office and retail space as well as parking; the extremely efficient floor plan provides more than 630,000 square feet (58,529 m2) of office space and more than 32,000 square feet (2,973 m2) of retail space plus a 1,200-space parking deck. When ASO’s Symphony Center is completed, it will face 1180 Peachtree across a large public plaza to be shared with the Woodruff Arts Campus to the north.. A landscaped plaza and retail and lobby frontage define 1180 Peachtree’s street-level presence, and passers-by are unaware of the parking, which is situated below the main office tower.
Avalon is a mixed-use town center that, in its first phase, includes retail, restaurant, multifamily rental housing, single-family for-sale housing, and office uses surrounding a main street and a central plaza. A second phase will add a hotel and conference center as well as additional retail, multifamily rental housing, and office space. The 2.3 million-square-foot project is located in an affluent northern suburb of Atlanta on an 86-acre site. A previous developer had planned a similar concept for the site in the mid-2000s era but was unable to execute the development.
A 172,000-square-foot, two-level power retail center, located across from the recently renovated and expanded Perimeter Mall, in North suburban Atlanta.
Wildwood Gables is an example of the creative redevelopment of a 421-unit, Class D garden apartment property that was substantially vacant. The project, which involved renovation, demolition, and new construction, now includes 546 luxury rental apartment and townhouse units. Though the existing units were in need of repair, they were large with good layouts, and the site was underdeveloped, thus offering opportunities for increasing the number of units. Meticulous landscaping and new amenities–swimming pools, tennis courts, fitness center, clubhouse, and elegant leasing office–were also added. Unit sizes range from 700 square feet to 2,200 square feet, and rents range from $565 to $1,400.
Glenwood Park is a new urbanist community located two miles (3.2 kilometers) from downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The 328-unit residential development contains single-family homes, townhouses, and condominiums along with 50,850 square feet (4,724 square meters) of retail and 21,000 square feet (1,951 square meters) of office space. Built by Green Street Properties on a site once used for industrial purposes, Glenwood Park lies between reemerging Atlanta neighborhoods and Interstate 20. The 28-acre (11-hectare) project includes a number of sustainable and green building features such as construction waste recycling, graywater irrigation systems, and Energy Star-rated appliances in the homes.
A 7,600-square-foot (706-square-meter), eight-unit condominium building located in Atlanta, Georgia’s Martin Luther King, Jr., Landmark District, the Wigwam Building stands out from the predominant Queen Anne-style houses due to its International Style architecture. The rehabilitation of this 1940s-era structure won the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation’s “Excellence in Rehabilitation” award and an award for excellence from Atlanta’s Urban Design Commission.
Vickery is a 214-acre (86.6-hectare), mixed-use neighborhood under development in Cumming, Georgia, 30 miles (48.3 kilometers) north of Atlanta. A high-density village center containing a mix of civic and commercial uses as well as townhouses and live/work units is surrounded by small-lot, single-family housing. Planned as an alternative to the low-density development occurring elsewhere in this suburban area, Vickery is designed to provide a diversity of housing choices and community amenities—and thus create a multigenerational and demographically diverse neighborhood.