Backed by Texas-based USAA Real Estate, JLB Partners will build 373 residential units on Pharr Road that it’s dubbed Buckhead Village. The 345,224-square-foot, four- and five-story project will go for LEED certification, the developers announced yesterday. More on the project here.
In addition to revealing that Bacchanalia chef-owner Anne Quatrano plans to open a po-boy shop at Ponce City Market, this week’s New York Times profile of the property formerly known as City Hall East offered a few other fresh details. Jamestown Properties’ Michael Phillips apparently shared plans with Robbie Brown, the Atlanta-based NYT writer, that…
NorSouth Companies, the large Atlanta-based senior center developer, is building a 121-unit project to EarthCraft Multifamily standards, the company says in a press release posted to our Inside Stories section. The $15.7 million project, Hearthside Brookleigh, is now under construction and slated to begin occupancy early next year. Among the features: Energy Star appliances, LED…
Ray Anderson, who died today at 77, was a candid advocate for sustainability, as well as a critic of conventional industry, whose own words serve as a more eloquent obituary than can those of anyone else. Here are some of the highlights of his public speaking in recent years. I’d particularly recommended to you the…
Ray Anderson, the Atlanta carpet maker who reinvented himself as a “radical industrialist” succumbed today to cancer. He was 77. Hear Anderson in his own words by viewing this video remembrance. Anderson has been called the “greenest CEO in America” for his uncompromising advocacy of zero-waste manufacturing. In the 1990s — after his now well-known…
At this morning’s Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable, Kevin Caravati gave us a closer look at the Redfields-to-Greenfields project, which I wrote about earlier this week. I still just get dizzy from the numbers, starting with the ambitious “what if” question posed in a report about Atlanta (one of 11 metro areas that have been studied by…
Longtime environmental leader John Sibley III is joining Southface Energy Institute as a senior policy fellow, I learned today at the Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable. An Atlanta native and Yale-educated lawyer, Sibley has a long track record of playing at the highest levels in Georgia environmental politics and policy. He’s a former president of the Georgia…
Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Doug Sams on the metro area’s really, really, really bad employment report: In a one-year stretch dating back to last May, Atlanta lost 30,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number of job losses here was the worst of the 12 largest U.S. metro areas, and actually sped up…
How do you make a 10-to-16 lane highway that handles 350,000 cars a day lovable? That was essentially the question facing about 75 people, me included, last night at a visioning session on the Downtown Connector. Beautifying Interstates 75 and 85 — in this case the stretch that runs from Turner Field north to the…
Ponce City Market’s developers had to kick a big energy efficiency question down the road for the time being in order to consummate their recent purchase of the historic building formerly known as City Hall East, the developers said today. That had to be have been a disappointment, especially Green Street Properties, which cut its…
