Just take a look at these totally cool designs…..what a break from the suburban Atlanta cookie cutter homes we see….can you see yourself living in one of these? I certainly can!
Quik Trip Viewpoint Midtown Convenience Store Only
If you drive around metro Atlanta, the QuikTrip or QT sign is a very familiar gas station convenience store. It’s certainly my gas station of choice. Well…it looks like a Quik Trip Convenience Store – minus the gas is coming to Viewpoint Midtown! Seriously!!! We’ll be calling it QuikTrip Viewpoint Midtown!
Quik Trip Viewpoint Midtown Convenience Store Only
The prominent retail corner in Viewpoint Midtown, at 6th and Peachtree Streets will soon premier a new concept for the company at the Midtown location. Similar to 7-Eleven stores, the “just-the-convenience-store” concept is something that QT has been working on in its long term strategy.
QuikTrip has launched a new version of its suburban gas/convenience stores that feature an in-store kitchen with breakfast sandwiches, pizza and other hot items. A conversation with an employee at a QT on Chamblee Tucker Road in Chamblee said the Midtown store should have the same thing.
What will be interesting to see, is what impact this has on the original go-to store, CVS Pharmacy, located just across the street. While they have more grocery-type items, certainly the offerings of a QuikTrip are sure to make a dent in the opening and closing of their front doors!
A pass by the location shows work well under way on the remodel of the space, said to be around 3,500 square feet.
A late spring/early summer opening is planned, and in QT fashion, the location is scheduled to be open 24 hours. A normal QT looks much like this….
Larkin On Memorial Files Building Plans
It’s pretty cool to see new development happening around Atlanta. It’s even more awesome to see old things take new shape…like Larkin On Memorial!
Larkin On Memorial
While this was announced back in September, it looks like “better plans” have come forth as the developer, Paces Properties has officially filed plans for the 63,000-square foot redevelopment mixed-use project at 519 Memorial Drive, SE.
Paces Properties is the same developer behind the popular Krog Street Market, and is also working on the Atlanta Dairies building just down the street from this location. According to the plans filed:
- “Building A” potential conversion into a 55,654-square-foot space for restaurant, retail and office use, for an estimated $3,150,000.
- “Building B” potential conversion into a 26,000-square-foot space for restaurant, retail and office use, for an estimated $1,633,000.
- “Building C” potential renovation into a “core and shell” for office, at an estimated$268,000. Building C is attached to buildings A and B.
- “Building D” could be new construction to create a “core and shell” for office, at an estimated $1,517,000.
- “Building E” could be renovated into a 9,500-square-foot space for office, for an estimated$307,000.
- Plans also call for an estimated $2,725,000 could be spent on “miscellaneous site work.”
Spaces available will range from 1,245 to 16,000 square feet. Paces is currently looking for tenants such as a dry cleaners, nail salon, daycare, medical, hardware along with various retailers and office tenants.
What do they hope Larkin On Memorial will accomplish? The goal of the center is to serve the day-to-day needs of our neighbors in the Grant Park, Ormwood Park, Cabbagetown, Reynoldstown, and East Atlanta neighborhoods. Combining the convenience of a practical shopping center with the warmth and hospitality of a familiar, family-friendly neighborhood establishment, Larkin is seeking tenants who will o er a range of essential, everyday services and provisions for households in these flourishing Eastside neighborhoods from dry-cleaning to daycare to quality groceries and dry goods.
Click here to see the Larking Leasing Packet for more information!
Condominium Maintenance — Did You Know?
Let’s face it. Be it your car, or even your laptop, we often forget that things need maintenance. Right? An oil change, a disk cleanup.
I find that many people that live a condominium life-style, take maintenance issues for granted. If you’ve owned a single family home, but then moved to a condo, you sometimes think, “Wow, no more lawn to mow, no more AC system to service, etc.” And there is also a HUGE mistaken idea that because you pay this monthly HOA fee, that some “things are just taken care of with that.”
Condominium Maintenance — Did You Know?
Nothing could be further from the truth. No, you don’t have a lawn to mow, but you DO have systems unique to your condominium that YOU are responsible for, NOT THE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION! NO, you’re kidding me, right?
- Heating and Air Conditioning System — Is YOUR responsibility to have serviced and checked. While it may not need it as often as a condensing unit that sits on the ground outside of a house, imagine the “wear and tear” that unit takes in the beating hot sun on the roof of a condo building. It might serve you well (an your pocket book) to have it serviced once a year.
- Hot Water Heater — If you live in a condominium, when is the last time you had your hot water heater drained, flushed and refilled? I’m going to go out on a limb and guess……NEVER! You probably figure you won’t live there for the average 10 year life of the hot water heater, right? Well the age of the system DOES play a factor when a Buyer comes along. Get ready to pay for a home warranty as part of your sales process. That new Buyer is going to want some protection.
But what really sent me off on this topic this morning was something I recently experienced. I do own a single family home, and had to recently have a new sewer line installed to the tune of almost $4,000. Up until that point, I frequently washed greasy dishes and sent food scraps down my garbage disposal. I bet you condo dwellers think nothing of it, right? After all, who wants that stinky food in the garbage can when we have a garbage disposal.
Atlanta City Councilmen Alex Wan (who covers a portion of Midtown Atlanta) sent out this newsletter. I was reading through it, and a section from Watershed Management (the part of the city that maintains the sewer system) made me think….
What happens in a 30 story condo building if the sewer lines were to back up from a grease buildup, say on the 20th floor? Where do you suppose all that water AND SEWER could end up? IN YOUR CONDO!!! And if you’ve never experienced a “water event” in a high-rise condo building, they can be very destructive. Repairable, at much expense, but a mess nonetheless.
Watch this video, and the next time you finish dinner and are washing the pots, pans and dishes, think twice about WHAT you send down that 20 or 30 story high sewer line.
Norfolk Southern To Add 250 Jobs to Midtown Atlanta
Real Estate Biz Now is reporting that Norfolk Southern is seeking some $75 million in revenue bonds from the City of Atlanta’s economic development arm, Invest Atlanta, to renovate it’s Midtown offices at Promenade.
Norfolk Southern To Add 250 Jobs to Midtown Atlanta
Documents filed with Invest Atlanta state that Norfolk Southern will relocate some 250 employees from Virginia to Atlanta, and want to do a full renovation of their office space, including everything from plumbing, roofing, energy and architectural upgrades.
The new jobs at the 38-story Midtown tower will have an average wage of $86,000 per year.
MyMidtownMojo.com welcomes these new Atlanta residents! We are ready to help you find the perfect Midtown Atlanta condo, or single family home to call home here in the ATL!
Whole Foods Coming To Midtown
For those of you in love with the organic grocery that is all over Atlanta, you are going to have one gosh darn close to your Midtown Atlanta condo. But don’t get out the reusable grocery bag just yet.
On June 9th, plans for an “organic grocery store” were presented to the Design Review Committee (DRC) of the Midtown Alliance. While the developer has tried to keep the store name quiet, the Whole Foods name got dropped numerous times. That and the fact that Related executives (the store is to be part of a residential tower being developed by Miami-based The Related Group) appeared before the Development Review Committee with Phillips Partnership, a firm that has designed seven Whole Foods (NADAQ: WFM) stores, including locations in Sandy Springs and Savannah, might be a pretty good indication as to WHO that organic grocery store will be.
Architect Rob French, with Phillips Partnership, presented renderings of the project, which would stand next to a proposed residential tower at 14th and West Peachtree streets. Miami-based The Related Group is the developer.
But as I mentioned earlier, hold on to that grocery bag. It looks like mid-2016 before a ground breaking, and an opening in 2018!!! Shreek…that is some 2 PLUS years away!
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