ATLANTA (Feb. 16, 2010) - Several properties have emerged as potential sites for the new high school in Atlanta's tony Buckhead community.
On Jan. 29, The Buckhead Blog broke news that Atlanta Public Schools is scouting for sites for a new high school in Buckhead, and land owners have lined up to get their properties before the school system. Early potential sites being mentioned include Colonial Homes apartments off Peachtree Road on the proposed BeltLine in south Buckhead, Paces Apartments on East Andrews Drive and the former West Paces Medical Center site on Howell Mill Road.
Properties along Northside Parkway near the Chattahoochee River also are being considered, according to the Buckhead Reporter.
To learn more about the search for land for the $35 million to $45 million school, check out Justin Farmer's story on WSB-TV, Channel 2. It's scheduled to air at 6:05 p.m. this evening and feature comments from Carter broker Rob Adamson, left in photo, with Farmer. The TV anchor interviewed Adamson on the site of the former West Paces Medical Center.
APS' search will be one of the hottest Atlanta site selections stories during the first half of 2010. Once a site is picked, it will take about two years to build the new school.
(Carter is a Wilbert News Strategies client.)
Colonial Homes? Pope and Land would be happy I guess, although the floodplain issues down there would seem to rule it out.
Posted by: Brian Brodrick | February 16, 2010 at 02:36 PM
They should take over the Streets of Buckhead site
Posted by: Rehot | February 16, 2010 at 08:59 PM
How much of the Colonial site is in the floodplain? All of it? If so you would think that would hurt it's chances. The West Paces site seems pretty strong and certainly not in the floodplain, but quite a distance for those in the Sarah Smith & Garden Hills Districts. Lastly I don't think the Paces property will be in the city's budget... I think it's worth a lot more than they are planning on spending, but man, that would be the PERFECT location! We shall see.
Carson Matthews
www.TheBuckheadBlog.com
Posted by: Carson Matthews | February 16, 2010 at 09:09 PM
I always heard that if you wanted to redevelop Colonial Homes, you would basically have to pile a bunch of dirt up in the middle of the site and build on it. When it rains/floods, half of the roads in the complex can be under water, unless something has changed in recent years.
Posted by: Brian Brodrick | February 18, 2010 at 09:44 AM