This 138-acre, $2 billion, mixed-use community development of the former Atlantic Steel mill, a brownfield site, by Jacoby Development, Inc. and AIG, was originally conceived as an environmentally-friendly Master Design Project by Georgia Tech graduate student, and ATLANTIC STATION’s current Vice President of Design and Development, Brian Leary.

At completion, the project will consist of 1.5 million s.f. of retail space; 5,000 residential units; 6 million s.f. of Class A office space; a 20,000 car parking structure; and 1,000 hotel rooms.

Located west of I75/I85, this highly visible yet essentially unavailable site required the addition of the 17th Street Bridge to link ATLANTIC STATION® to Midtown on the east side of the freeway. Midtown, a high-density office and residential area, is the home of Atlanta’s arts district.

Initial plans to sell parcels in The Village (IKEA), The Commons (high-density residential), Home Park (bungalow, townhome and duplex residential) and The District (office, retail, entertainment, hotel and loft residential) to various development partners stalled when earlier partnerships were not productive.

Jacoby Development, Inc. committed to personally build out the community and solicited partners capable of translating the components of their vision for a “new urbanism” into reality. Jones Lang LaSalle was hired as retail advisor to assist with evolving their retail strategy and successfully integrating the retail component into the community from the ground up.

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