Thursday, January 23, 2020

Skyline Altering Tower Slated for Midtown Atlanta

Atlanta is preparing for major construction projects that could make the Midtown area taller, denser, and more pedestrian-friendly.

Most notably, developer Trillist has big plans for its long-anticipated 1138 Peachtree Street development.

The project will create a 46-story, residential-heavy mixed-use tower at a nearly one-acre site where a handful of high-rise projects—such as a Mandarin Oriental hotel—have fizzled over the years.

Midtown Alliance officials noted the tower could ascend more than 550 feet, potentially ranking it among Atlanta’s top 15 tallest buildings—and the highest built in more than a decade. 

In the works since 2013, the Trillist development will feature 317 luxury apartments and about 10,000 square feet of ground-level retail space fronting Peachtree Street and Crescent Avenue.

The project will also include a nine-floor parking deck with 450 spaces.

Midtown board members raised concerns about how the parking deck’s facades would fit against the community’s urban backdrop, and about how the retail space would engage passersby.

“The retail space within the ground floor of the Crescent frontage does not meet minimum depth requirements, nor does the elevation meet requirements which specify the appearance of a horizontally storied building for the first three floors.”

Officials also said Trillist and architects at Smallwood need to further assess the pedestrian connectivity between Peachtree Street and Crescent Avenue.

Also in the works are plans for the Campanile building expansion, which will get underway just across the street from Trillist’s project, at 1155 Peachtree.

The base of the late-1980s office building owned by the Dewberry Group will be wrapped in a six-floor, 125,000-square-foot retail podium. 

In the podium, new floors will align with the existing floors of the office tower to create office floor plates of approximately 45,000 square feet, as well as new terraces on the fourth and sixth floors, which promise sweeping views of outdoor amenity spaces for office tenants.

City officials are focused on designs for the “generous public space” near the tower’s front entrance, along with elements related to the streetscape on all four sides of the block.


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