Sunrise Atlantic Station Midtown Atlanta
by Reid Callaway
Title
Sunrise Atlantic Station Midtown Atlanta
Artist
Reid Callaway
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Atlantic Station is a neighborhood on the northwestern edge of Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States. First planned in the mid-1990s and officially opened in 2005, the neighborhood's 138 acres are located on the former brownfield site of the Atlantic Steel mill.
Atlantic Station is located on the site of the Atlantic Steel mill, which opened in 1901. The steel mill was nearly closed in the mid-1970s, but it remained nominally operational primarily to avoid the huge costs it would have required to remediate the soil contamination present after years of operation.
Developer Jim Jacoby, who also redeveloped Florida's Marineland, began putting the project together in 1997 when his company became the property contractor of the land. The redevelopment of the land into what is now Atlantic Station was financed largely by private investment, but was heavily supplemented by a special tax district to pay for city tax bonds for public utilities (streets, sidewalks, and sewers). The development was originally planned to include 15,000,000 square feet of retail, office, residential space as well as 11 acres of public parks. Its size encouraged the Postal Service to award the neighborhood its own ZIP code: 30363.
Atlantic Station was designed with energy efficiency in mind and many of the buildings are LEED certified.[4] Additionally, the project was developed to help mitigate urban sprawl and reduce air pollution by allowing many more people to live and work within walking distance of most everyday things they need, with many alternative transportation options nearby. The proposed BeltLine transit/greenway project is expected to pass within a few miles of the development.
In October 2003, the very first residents moved into the development. The 17th Street bridge was completed in January 2004 and the first round of retail establishments opened in October 2005. Atlantic Station received the EPA's 2004 Phoenix Award as the Best National Brownfield Redevelopment, as well as the Sierra Club's 2005 America's Best New Development Projects listing.
Midtown is the second largest business district in the city of Atlanta, situated between the commercial and financial districts of Downtown to the south and Buckhead to the north. Midtown has a resident population of 30,000, a workplace population of 68,000, a student population of 20,000. The district attracts about six million visitors annually.
Midtown is marked by its cultural attractions, institutions of higher education, noteworthy architecture, and urban layout. The district is the center of the city's arts scene that includes the Fox Theatre, Woodruff Arts Center, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Design Atlanta, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Center for Puppetry Arts, and the 14th Street Playhouse. Midtown is also home to three well known institutions of higher education: Georgia Institute of Technology, John Marshall Law School, and the Atlanta division of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Midtown contains about one-third of the city's high-rises and some of Atlanta's most iconic buildings, such as the Bank of America Plaza, AT&T Midtown Center, Atlantic Center, and 1180 Peachtree. Midtown has also been a primary area for high-density development in the city in the first decade of the 2000s due to the district's mass transit options and urban street grid.
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Reid Callaway
Thank you Catchavista for appreciating my artwork and for making this image one of your personal Favorites! 7/15/2020
Reid Callaway
Thank you Jan for admiring my artwork and for making this image one of your personal Favorites! 7/15/2020
Reid Callaway
Thank you Jan Mulherin for featuring my artwork in our group....”Art Forever with You”! 7/15/2020
Jan Mulherin
Congratulations!! This stunning image has been selected to be featured for the week in the “Art for Ever with You” Group Home Page. You are welcome to add a preview of this featured image to the group’s discussion post titled “2020 July: Stunning Group Featured Images and Thank-you’s” for a permanent display within the group, to share this achievement with others. Also feel free to post your feature on our group Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/296998814248643/ Thank you for your participation in the group! ~Jan (July 15, 2020)
Reid Callaway
Thank you Frozen in Time for featuring my artwork in our group.... The Niche! 6/9/2020
Reid Callaway
Thank you Jenny Revitz Soper for featuring my artwork in our Group.... No Place Like Home! 5/29/2020
Reid Callaway
Thank you Tatiana Travelways for featuring my artwork in our group…Travel Art! 5/28/2020
Reid Callaway
Thank you Tatiana Travelways for admiring my artwork and for making this image one of your personal Favorites! 5/28/2020
Tatiana Travelways
Congratulations - Your beautiful artwork has been featured in the "Travel Art" gallery at Fine Art America! For further promotion, you can post it to the specific Travel Destinations galleries, our Facebook group and our Pinterest board - All the links are provided on our group's homepage.
Reid Callaway
Thank you Doug Norkum for featuring my artwork in our group.... Canon Full Frame Cameras! 5/25/2020
Reid Callaway
Thank you Judy Vincent for featuring my artwork in our group... USA Photographers! 5/25/2020
Reid Callaway
Thank you John M Bailey for featuring my artwork in our group...Images That Excite You! 5/25/2020
Reid Callaway
Thank you John Bailey for appreciating my artwork and for making this image one of your personal Favorites! 5/25/2020
John M Bailey
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!" Sharing on Pinterest Board - Images That Excite You!
Reid Callaway
Thank you to the buyer from Buena Vista, VA for the purchase of my image, "Sunrise Atlantic Station" printed on a T-Shirt - Charcoal! May this image be a Blessing to you and your new T-Shirt be a conversation starter for years to come! 5/23/2020
Reid Callaway
Thank you so much Mike Deutsch for your kind words and making this image one of your personal Favorites!