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Ponce City Market is adding coworking floor, hundreds of new workers
Industrious has expanded operations to the seventh floor of Ponce City Market just a year after opening a 30,000-square-foot facility on the eighth floor. With perks like fresh-made pastries and bagels, coffee from Blue Donkey, and fancy events, it’s amazing anyone can even get work done.
Where Beltline meets Ponce, on-ramp and better lighting up for vote
The Atlanta City Council is considering a serious upgrade where Ponce de Leon Avenue meets the Beltline: a plan for Beltline access and upgraded lighting along Ponce, between Monroe Drive and Freedom Parkway, a corridor where bike lanes were installed in recent years.
Year in review: Atlanta’s biggest development news of 2016
This year, Atlanta experienced changes galore, as towers rose, old buildings came crashing down, transportation won big, and ambitious ideas materialized for how to make Atlanta even greater. Check out the highs, lows, and "whoas!" as the year winds down.
In Old Fourth Ward, roomy new townhouse summons $575K
Perks include kitchen cabinetry literally to the ceiling. Other highlights, beyond roomy floorplans: the cozy and covered back decks, marble countertops (in some instances), and spaces for wine coolers.
Old Fourth Ward adds 80 affordable apartments; 96 more are planned
For many years, the stretch of Boulevard passing through Old Fourth Ward has been largely excluded from development occurring across the neighborhood. But with the opening of City Lights, and the announcement of Station 464, new affordable housing is coming to town.
Curbed Cup 1st Round: (4) College Park vs. (13) Old Fourth Ward
Which neighborhood should advance to the second round?
Old Fourth Ward flip, asking $600K, not your average ‘townhome’
The property stands about a block from Boulevard, joining a groundswell of renovations and new construction up the hill from Historic Fourth Ward Park and Ponce City Market. Allergies to neighboring parking lots could be an issue.
Where Atlanta rents are heating up this winter
Atlanta now ranks as the country’s 19th most expensive rental market—pricier than Denver and Long Beach—per Zumper’s data. Not bad for a Top 10 market in terms of population, though.
Atlanta’s most annoyingly vacant places: three years later
In late 2013, we strapped on our collective thinking caps and set out to photograph, for posterity’s sake, some of Atlanta’s "most annoyingly vacant places" as one of the first installments in the Visual Journeys series. Here’s an update.
Hotel, condos, killer views planned for Boulevard at Highland Avenue
Planning is underway for a project that could bring 300 condos and a 200-room hotel to the southern edge of Old Fourth Ward, adjacent to Atlanta Medical Center. Just blocks from downtown and the Beltline, the site would offer residents and guests enviable connectivity, too.
New dog park planned at Old Fourth Ward ‘icehouse’ concept
A unique restaurant proposal by a former Atlanta Falcons player and company wants to alleviate the pressure from Old Fourth Ward dwellers of having to choose between four-legged friends and actual friends.
Old Fourth Ward traditional with ‘designer’ interiors requests $580K
Beyond the snazzy furnishings you’ll see rustic built-in shelving around the fireplace, a fluorescent-blue back splash, cable railings, and Edisons aplenty. The elevated back deck seems a tad tight, but the cozy front porch could compensate.
The Willoughby, Beltline’s first office building, lands co-working tenant
First announced back in 2014, the project has been slow to materialize along the Eastside Trail at Historic Fourth Ward Skate Park. And renderings show a building that could miss the mark when it comes to inspired Beltline design.
Old Fourth Ward office project might not happen after all
Vacant and problematic Old Fourth Ward properties were bulldozed in March, clearing the way for a $55-million venture called 525 North, but the site has been strangely fallow since. Why? Money, that’s why.
Masquerade readies Underground spaces; Westside plans officially dead
The Masquerade will soon be ready to open in Underground Atlanta, following months of frantic preparation. Meanwhile, a future home on the Westside is no longer in the cards, following the resolution of a lawsuit.
Is Atlanta development trending toward ‘soulless’ these days?
It wasn’t long ago the buildings that house Ponce City and Krog Street markets were carcasses. But if recent musings in Atlanta media are any indication, there’s a growing sentiment that such inwardly focused hives of activity are detracting from a more vibrant overall city.
Boxy new Old Fourth Ward contemporary is targeting $785K
With just under 2,000 square feet of living space, the dwelling is located near the Beltline as well as Krog Street Market, the streetcar, and many, many restaurants. Also, there's a "zero maintenance lot," which means no yard.
Ponce City Market loads up on recent awards
It’s hard to argue that Ponce City Market has not been a transformational development on the Beltline. Now, the 2.1 million-square-foot adaptive-reuse project is receiving plenty of attention. From home and abroad.
Atlanta Civic Center redevelopment plan is officially dead
Weingarten Realty is bailing on plans that would have brought nearly a half-million square feet of office and retail space — plus a whopping 650 housing units and likely a Publix grocery — to the western edge of Old Fourth Ward.
Trick-or-treat! Atlanta’s best intown Halloween neighborhoods
Halloween is almost upon Atlanta, with the weekend left to plan out Monday night’s trick-or-treating. But with so many neighborhoods to choose from, where is the best place to snag treats?
Atlanta cafe enters bike rental biz, urging more ridership
Cafe + Velo told Curbed Atlanta it recently started renting bikes. It’s in a prime spot in terms of convenient bike-ability. There’s bike lanes on Edgewood Avenue that lead both downtown and to the Eastside Trail.
Sweet! Shaq buys iconic Ponce de Leon institution
Shaquille O'Neal, legendary basketball icon, has bought a key piece of real estate at the edge of Midtown and Old Fourth Ward. While many celebrities scoop up swanky houses and penthouse condos, Shaq bought a sweet little chintzy midcentury place.
How far $800K goes in the Old Fourth Ward right now
The renovation looks clean, the redone kitchen simple and beautiful (nice quartz-swirls on the waterfall island!), and the EcoSmart fireplace snazzy. Meanwhile, the detached studio around back looks like solitary confinement with better ceilings.
Sweet Auburn townhomes with sweet views debut in $620Ks
This particular unit, listed last week at $625,000, is full of wide-open spaces and sleek, non-Depot finishes that don’t smack as cliche. With three bedrooms and four and 1⁄2 bathrooms, it counts 2,373 square feet, a two-car garage, and at least three outdoor spaces.
Regarding Atlanta's most horrible, godawful intersections
Walkability is on the rise in intown Atlanta neighborhoods, which is great. But the increase in pedestrians is also leading to an increase in pedestrian-vehicle conflicts. Now, the city and state are looking at improving crossings around Atlanta.
Awesome Atlanta projects regaled at architecture awards
Architects gathered in Savannah this weekend to recognize some of the region’s best architecture, with Atlanta firms being recognized in three of the four professional categories. Winners included a synagogue, a courthouse, and offices at PCM.
Plans for Beltline-fronting townhomes, retail revealed
Studioplex, the warehouse-turned-live-work space adjacent to the Beltline's Eastside Trail, is ramping up development. On the heels of an announcement about a hotel, there are now plans in motion for the addition of 19 townhomes and new retail spaces.
In Ponce City Market's shadow, true O4W loft wants $390K
Listed a few days ago at $389,900, this two-bedroom unit is working the Ponce City Market and Beltline angle hard. Aside from maybe the lone exposed air duct (probably a necessity with the ceilings), nothing screams late-aughts design in here.
At $325K, Old Fourth Ward bungalow unsold after 6 months
Just off Decatur Street, in the Old Fourth Ward’s southern fringes, this revamped circa-1920 bungalow is still seeking a buyer after six months, which could raise eyebrows in a district long touted as Atlanta’s hottest.
In Old Fourth Ward, this chic diminutive loft is $260K
There’s "rich, weathered flooring thru-out (sic.), industrious kitchen ... creatively updated master retreat," and tons of quirky and interesting features to be found within the confines, as well as a diminutive nook-of-a-patio and private garden.
Following Inman Park ire, Beltline has new tunnel plan
Atlanta Beltline Communications Director Ericka Davis told Curbed Atlanta this week ABI is "refining the site plan as we proceed through the development process ... in consideration of ongoing dialogue with the community and key stakeholders."
Boutique hotel at Beltline, Krog Street moves forward
The Beltline has brought about the renaissance of neighborhood around Atlanta — most notably so far along the Eastside Trail, with place like Old Fourth Ward and Krog Street Market becoming destinations any Atlantan knows. But where do visitors stay?
Project near Beltline, Krog Tunnel raises transit concerns
Beltline visionary fears proposed site plans do not allow enough space for rail to run through, and a possible 1,000-foot tunnel with an S-curve in it would only have enough room for transit.
First look: Sweet Auburn units touted as crazy affordable
Atlantans knows that summers here are hot as hell and that homes in Old Fourth Ward are expensive. But new townhomes just across the neighborhood border in Sweet Auburn are going to start in the $300,000s and boast MARTA and Beltline proximity.
Pint-sized Old Fourth Ward bungalow hopes for $450K
The two-bedroom, two-bathroom property counts just 1,043 square feet and zero off-street parking. Which might not matter for small-boned buyers exclusively reliant on what the listing refers to as "Beltline Cruisers."
$895K modern is Old Fourth Ward’s new normal
The latest nontraditional new-build in the Old Fourth Ward is touting five-minute walking proximity to Ponce City Market and the potential to lift modern living in this metamorphosing ‘hood "to a whole new level."
No joke: Dad's Garage O4W flip nominated for design award
Call it divine intervention: Atlanta comedy club Dad's Garage has made the finalist list for the Urban Land Institute's Atlanta annual design awards. The troupe's new venue, a converted church in Old Fourth Ward, ain't no laughing matter.
Could crayons and glitter help boost MARTA ridership?
The majority of MARTA bus stops throughout Atlanta are little more than a small rectangular sign mounted to a pole, making the system unfriendly to those who don’t already know when the bus is coming or where they can take it to. But not for long.
'Complete Streets' eyed for Va-Hi, Old Fourth Ward, more
A meeting is scheduled for Aug. 23 to discuss the Monroe/Boulevard Drive Complete Street project. According to Renew Atlanta’s website, improvements will include "milling, resurfacing, and pedestrian improvements from Piedmont Circle to 10th Street."