Another mover and shaker answers three big questions. This time it’s Brian Leary, CEO and president of Atlanta Beltline Inc., who also happens to be the visionary behind Atlantic Station. Leary describes how much private development already has gone up near the Beltline, the dense nature of that development and — most interesting to me…
Perkins+Will’s Bruce McEvoy and Paula Vaughan were kind enough to guide me through a deluxe tour of the firm’s new office at 1315 Peachtree Street. I avoid superlatives in Green Building Chronicle, but this project may deserve a pile of them. It’s stunning. Led by McEvoy, who was the project’s design leader, the big architectural…
Ryan Gravel and Brian Leary are different in many ways. Gravel, for instance, is more the introspective architect; Leary, the extroverted developer. To an amazing extent, however, the two Georgia Tech School of Architecture grads have pursued their careers as if in parallel universes. They attended Tech around the same time, came up with transformational development…
Here’s an interesting report on the glut of stick-built five-or-six story “urban” apartments in metro Atlanta: As in most major US urban environments the Atlanta apartment market was, to put it mildly, not prepared for December 2007. At that time there were 2,200 new never-occupied units in the region, 52% of which were urban units….
