City Center Approved by Alpharetta
ALPHARETTA, Ga. – In a 5-2 vote, the Alpharetta City Council approved plans for a new mixed-use City Center. With a packed council chambers, the developer, MidCity Real Estate Partners, pitched their $80 million plan May 18. The team has worked on similar projects such as the Woodstock downtown. The development includes retail and restaurants on the ground floors of the buildings in front of City Hall, with offices and apartments on the upper floors. Plans call for 165 for-rent apartments in the development. In total, there could be as much as 50,000 square feet of retail and 30,000 square feet of office in addition to the apartments. Forty-two single-family homes are also planned for the development, across Haynes Bridge Road at the intersection with Thompson Street. This Article Originally Ran in the Alpharetta-Roswell Revue & News For More Information, Please Click...
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Across the street, in the 6000 block of Roswell Road, developer Kirk Demetrops with MidCity Partners is requesting a zoning change for the property, where a seven-story office building and Bank of America stand. According to Demetrops, Bank of America has been issued a building permit to construct a new branch where KFC and Checkers were located, adjacent to the proposed development. If rezoning is approved by Sandy Springs City Council, the MidCity Partners development could include a mix of office, retail and residential. That project is scheduled to go before the Planning Commission on Jan. 15 and the council on Feb. 17. This Article Originally Ran In The Sandy Springs Reporter For More, Please Click Here and Turn to Page...
read moreGriffin Co. to turn office complex into condos
Cosmopolitan North has become the latest project to follow the office-turned-residential trend in the Central Perimeter. Local developer The Griffin Co. plans to transform a 138,000-square-foot office complex on Barfield Road into mixed-use with 280 condominium units… Originally Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Read More Here
read moreAtlantic 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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The Griffin Co. has scrapped plans for a SoBo (South Buckhead) office condominium building. The developer instead has put the 1.6-acre site at 1820 Peachtree up for sale for an undisclosed sum. “Our concept for 1820 Peachtree right now is on hold,” said Kirk Demetrops, senior vice president of Griffin. The site — between the Macquarium Building and the former Mayflower apartments — is currently home to a Wendy’s restaurant. Griffin, which purchased the parcel in 2003 for $2.75 million, had plans to develop an 11-story, 145,000-square-foot office/condo project. Originally Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Read More...
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