Wayne Mason shuttering Gwinnett Partners

Wayne Mason and Marty Kennedy are splitting up and going their separate ways. By all accounts, it’s an amicable separation but one that will shutter Gwinnett Partners LLC after eight years… Buckhead Boutique The Griffin Co. has begun development of 50 Old Ivy in Buckhead. The group is seizing the momentum from its final office condominium sale at the adjacent 34/38 Old Ivy development next to Hal’s restaurant… Originally Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Read More...

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On the trail of a trend…

“New Urbanism,” the development concept for real estate planning and design that combines homes, coffee shops and dental offices within easy walking distance of one another, has sowed its seeds all over metro Atlanta… …Atlanta is a young market when it comes to mixed-use, said Kirk Demetrops, senior vice president of The Griffin Co. The vast majority of Atlanta’s developers only three or four years ago were single-use builders, Demetrops said. Their experience was limited to either retail, commercial office or residential development, but not all three… Originally Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Read More...

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Atlantic Station must balance formidable size

While living in Manhattan, 30-year-old Amy Renfrow enjoyed getting along without a car. Soon, the marketing professional, who now works out of a two-bedroom townhouse on 16th Street in Midtown when not mothering her baby, once again will be able to walk to restaurants, the grocery, movie theaters and more at Atlantic Station…. “Even if you don’t live there, it still will be fun to go there and shop,” said Kirk Demetrops, senior vice president of The Griffin Co.  Demetrops projected that with more than 1 million more people expected to move here in the next decade and Atlanta’s current commuting times likely to increase, mixed-use probably will begin replacing strip malls… Originally Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Read More...

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Selling Griffin’s Perch

A longtime Atlanta developer has sold off its own home. The Griffin Co. has sold its own headquarters, Perimeter Place, an 82,800- square-foot office building at 800 Mount Vernon Highway in the Central Perimeter market. The buyer is Jackson Oats Shaw Corporate Real Estate, the upstart real estate investment firm that rounded up a bunch of money in 2004 to buy commercial properties throughout Atlanta. Originally Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Read More...

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Morris, Manning & Martin stays put at AFC

One of Atlanta’s largest law firms has decided to hold its place in Buckhead. Morris, Manning & Martin LLP has renewed and extended its lease in the east wing of the Atlanta Financial Center on Peachtree Road in Buckhead, said Tori Kerr, project manager for Hines Interests L.P., the co-owner of the office building… A longtime Atlanta developer has sold off its own home. The Griffin Co. has sold its own headquarters, Perimeter Place, an 82,800- square-foot office building at 800 Mount Vernon Highway in the Central Perimeter market. The buyer is Jackson Oats Shaw Corporate Real Estate, the upstart real estate investment firm that rounded up a bunch of money in 2004 to buy commercial properties throughout Atlanta… Originally Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Read More...

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