Molly Carter Gaines

$27+ MILLION PENDING AND SOLD IN 2021 3 - 4 DAYS AVERAGE DAYS ON MARKET TOP 5% ATLANTA PRODUCER 100% OF LISTINGS SOLD OVER ASK IN 2021

Saturday, Nov. 6

■ Chosewood at Chosewood Park (District 1)

■ Poncey-Highland at Freedom Park/John Lewis Flowering Forest (District 2)

■ Bankhead at Azalea Gardens (District 3)

■ Cascade Avenue (Districts 4 & 11)

■ Kirkwood (District 5)

■ Morningside at N. Morningside Road (District 6)

■ Woodfield/Brandon at Atlanta Memorial Park (District 8)

■ West Highlands at Perry Boulevard (District 9)

■ Adamsville at Fairburn-Gordon Apartments (District 10)

The neighborhoods chosen for planting are significant due to their position in critical watersheds in Atlanta, especially sites near impaired waterways. Impaired waterways are bodies of water that are too polluted or otherwise degraded to meet standards set by local, state, or federal agencies. An effective mitigator is dense tree canopy.

Trees can slow the impact and volume of runoff caused by heavy rain events. Tree canopy also captures particulate matter, and more water can be absorbed into the ground where trees grow. Thus, more trees means less burden on storm water drains and creeks and more benefits for people who live near them.

Visit treesatlanta.org/plantlanta to volunteer or for more information.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to add a large swath of the lead-contaminated English Avenue neighborhood to its National Priorities List, which would allow more federal funding for clean-up. According to Georgia Health News, the EPA has been investigating the Westside neighborhood for lead in the soil since 2019. This year it expanded the area under investigation to more than 2,000 properties. Lead is a potent neurotoxin that’s especially harmful to children. Of the 753 properties already sampled, 311 have shown levels of lead above 400 parts per million, the EPA threshold that calls for clean-up. The EPA began cleaning up contaminated soil in early 2020, and 93 properties have been remediated. Both sampling and clean-up are free for property owners. The EPA expects to decide whether to approve the listing of the site in spring 2022.

▲ Reynolds Consumer Products has expanded its Hefty EnergyBag program in the Greater Atlanta area to include Fulton, Gwinnett, Cherokee and Forsyth counties. Developed with Dow and other program supporters, the Hefty EnergyBag program offers eligible residents a convenient way to divert hard-torecycle plastics from the landfill. For residents who live in the Greater Atlanta area but do not currently have curbside recycling service, there is still an opportunity to participate in the program. They can drop off full Hefty EnergyBag orange bags at the Center for Hard to Recycle Materials (CHaRM), 1110 Hill St. SE.

The City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management has announced the winners of the Green Infrastructure Design Challenge. The purpose of this challenge was to engage the design community to help resolve water quality and flooding challenges using green infrastructure. Teams submitted conceptual designs for five different sites around the city. The winners are The Volkert Team won for their work on the Outdoor Activity Center stream restoration project in the Utoy Creek watershed; Rivers 2 Tap Team for their submission for West Manor Park flood mitigation project and the Chastain Park stormwater treatment project located in the Nancy Creek watershed; and the Star Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners Team for their proposal on the Continental Colony Elementary and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive stormwater management projects For more information, about the teams and winners, visit atlantawatershed.org/gichallenge-2/.

By Collin Kelley

The proliferation of cranes over Midtown is testament to how many high-rise projects are in the works.

As of October, 16 high-rises –from student housing and condos to hotels and offices – were in various stages of construction, according to the Midtown Alliance. Eight more have been proposed and are moving through the city’s approval process before construction begins.

“Midtown’s momentum persists,” Midtown Alliance President & CEO Kevin Green said in his annual report on the district. “[We’re]s a dynamic community with a mix of residents, businesses, academic and arts and cultural powerhouses that make significant contributions to our city.”

That ongoing momentum will result in a dramatically altered skyline and more density than the city has ever seen. Even the district’s streets are being altered to make room for the new developments.

Case in point is Arts Center Way, which is being extended across West Peachtree Street from behind the High Museum to become a focal point of the massive Midtown Union project. The three-tower development located between West Peachtree and Spring Streets held a topping out ceremony last month on its 26-story office tower, which will be anchored by the future headquarters of Invesco.

The mixed-use development designed by Cooper Carry will also have a 26-story, 355-unit residential tower called Mira and a 14-story, 230-key hotel operated by Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants.

Arts Center Way will cut through the development as a pedestrian walkway lined with retail and restaurants connecting the Woodruff Arts Center campus to Spring Street.

All three towers are on schedule for a third quarter 2022 opening, according to officials with MetLife Investment Management and Granite Properties.

“We’re pleased to achieve this major construction milestone and are thrilled to be on schedule to complete this large, transformative project in Midtown Atlanta,” said John Robbins, Senior Managing Director of Granite Properties.

Just a few blocks south, Portman

Residential and National Real Estate

Advisors have broken ground on 1000 Spring, a new apartment tower at the corner of Spring and 10th Streets.

The tower, which will include 370 residential units and11,000 square feet of retail space, is the opening salvo of much larger project.

The larger development plan features a 525,000 square foot office building, 225-room hotel and incorporate the historic H.M. Patterson & Son’s Spring Hill Chapel as a venue with “a food and beverage focus.”

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Two other towers that seem to have been under construction forever are The Hadley, the 26-story apartment building from StreetLights Residential going up behind St. Mark’s Church at the corner of Juniper and 5th, and 903 Peachtree, a 33-story apartment tower with 427 units and nearly 10,000 square feet of ground floor retail.

As Georgia Tech, Georgia State University, and the campuses at Atlanta University Center continue to attract more enrollees, the number of private student housing towers also continues to grow. Four of the 16 high-rise projects underway in Midtown are dedicated to student housing, including The Hub on Campus (19-stories, 800 beds) at Spring and 10th streets and Moontower (31-stories, 195 units) next door to The Cheetah at 859 Spring.

Another educational institution adding its mark to the Midtown skyline is the Savannah College of Art & Design. SCAD already has a 14-story student residential tower topped with an event space, but a 20-story dorm complex with 1,000 beds, food market, dining hall, and auditorium is rising where Spring Street meets the BufordSpring Connector.

For new towers to rise, sometimes neighborhood institutions must fall. On Juniper Street, both Einstein’s and Joe’s on Juniper – favorites of the LGBTQ community for nearly three decades –shuttered over the summer and will be razed to make room for the two-tower project from Middle Street Partners. The Juniper Street project will span an entire block between 11th and 12th Streets with 38 and 32 story towers with 470 apartments, 9,500 square feet of street level retail and a shared parking deck.

Another big project in the pipeline is 1405 Spring Street, a 31-story apartment building from JPX Works that would sit on the space currently occupied by John Marshall Law School’s shuttered Blackburn Conference Center.

And then there’s Society, a 33-story tower proposed by Property Markets at 811 Peachtree St. The building will feature 15,600 square feet of retail, 76,500 square feet office, and 460 residential units. The tower would sit on what is now a parking lot at the corner of 6th – across the street from Cornerstone Village condos.