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One of the renderings of the redevelopment of the Atlanta Civc Center site.
Courtesy Carter
Civic Center property plans
concern 04W residents
By Collin Kelley
INtown Editor
Film and television studios
surrounded by a performing arts center,
a hotel, and a mix of residential, office
and retail could transform the Atlanta
Civic Center property in Downtown/
Old Fourth Ward into a regional tourist
destination.
According to the Atlanta Business
Chronicle, the mixed-use proposal is
one of the more ambitious concepts to
emerge so far as the city prepares to put
the 19-acre Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta
Civic Center site on the market. Local
real estate development firm Carter is
proposing the concept.
In June, the Atlanta City Council
voted to sell the Civic Center, turning
the 380,000-square-foot space over to
its economic development arm, Invest
Atlanta to seek bids from developers.
Despite recent upgrades, the 47-year-
old building at the corner of Piedmont
Avenue and Ralph McGill Boulevard has
been a drain on city resources.
Residents who live near the Civic
Center property are concerned about the
scope of the proposal and plan to meet
with city officials. Tim Hollis, president
of Fourth Ward West Neighborhood
Association said he and many residents
believe plans for the property need to be
scaled back.
“There are apartments and condo
buildings that are six and seven stories
tall around the Civic Center,” Hollis
said. “Twenty-story buildings don’t fit
in the neighborhood and a 4,000-seat
performing arts center isn’t necessary.”
Hollis said the community would
welcome more residential, office, retail
and park space on the site.
And even as the city prepares to
divest itself of the Downtown Civic
Center, Atlanta City Councilman
Michael Julian Bond has floated the
idea of putting a new Civic Center
at the city-owned Bellwood Quarry
(you’ll recognize it from The Walking
Dead). The 350-acre quarry site with its
dramatic, sheer rock faces and blue-green
water is supposed to be transformed into
Westside Reservoir Park on the Atlanta
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