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Transit Projects
MARTA moves forward with developments at Arts Center and Bankhead stations
By Collin Kelley
MARTA is moving forward with more transit-oriented developments (TOD) at the Arts Center and Bankhead rail stations. The transit agency has issued a call for proposals to build a TOD at Arts Center station in Midtown, which is located on six acres of land between 15th and 16th Streets and fronting on West Peachtree and Arts Center Way.
More crucially, it’s adjacent to the Woodruff Arts Center – home to the High Museum, Alliance Theatre, and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra – and across the street from the newly opened Midtown Union development.
The site is zoned SPI-16 providing for significant mixed-use density, including affordable housing. Proposals are due by Dec. 15.
“Arts Center Station presents a tremendous development opportunity which we hope will enhance our customer experience and ridership, positively influence the neighborhood and add amenities, including affordable housing, which is so desperately needed in Midtown,” said MARTA Interim General Manager and CEO Collie Greenwood.
The MARTA Board of Directors has also approved a resolution authorizing the agency to enter into negotiations with the Peebles Corporation for a TOD at Bankhead Station.
The Bankhead TOD is located on just under five-and-a-half acres at 1335 Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway. The rail station is adjacent to Microsoft’s future 90-acre campus and a half-mile southeast of Westside Reservoir Park.
The development plan would include 495 multi-family housing units, with 148 of them designated as affordable at 80 to 120% of the area median income by zip code.
The concept also includes office and workshare space, retail and a hotel, along with over an acre of open space.
To further support the type of mixeduse density that defines successful TODs, MARTA, with support from Atlanta City Councilmember Dustin Hillis, had the station rezoned to Mixed Residential Commercial District 3 (MRC-3).
Arts Center Station in Midtown.
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