Superheroes and superheroines had a big economic impact in the Peach State in fiscal 2015.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.bizjournals.com
I’m thinking the number of Georgian’s employed….believe it or not could be higher. But nonetheless, the Georgia Film and Television industry is one to stand up and take notice about.
See on Scoop.it – Georgia Film & TV
Living and working in Midtown has some great advantages.
You can almost, I say almost not own a car. You can walk from your condo to shopping, great restaurants and the amazing Piedmont Park. Or you can hop on MARTA to a Braves Game (well that won’t be for much longer) a Falcon’s Game, or head to the airport for the weekend escape or out-of-town business trip.
But there is something big brewing if you take the MARTA Gold line in the other direction, Northeast out of Midtown.
To Doraville.
Up until now, Doraville has really only been known for four things. The END of the MARTA Gold Line, the GM Assembly Plant, the tank farm and the now ever popular Buford Highway Farmers’ Market. But hold onto your development drawers…it’s about to get busy in Doraville.
I’ve already written about Assembly Doraville and the proposed transformation of the Doraville GM plant to Assembly – Doraville. Third Rail Studios will be the first “resident” of the Assembly, joining the ever growing list of movie studios in the Atlanta metro area. But even before the dust has settled on the demolition of the GM plant, more development is making its way to the area.
A development team, including Stephen Macauley of Macauley Investments, wants to add 504 multifamily and senior living units, a 140-room hotel, and almost 44,600 square feet of retail on 13 acres at Buford Highway and Interstate 285. The site is an abandoned Kmart. Wakefield Beasley & Associates is the project architect. This site is located directly across for the Buford Highway Farmer’s Market, and could be walkable to the Doraville MARTA station if the city makes some crosswalk and sidewalk improvements.
The development path is certainly headed North on the Gold Line with such things as Town Brookhaven, Olmstead in Chamblee (across from the Chamblee MARTA station) and now Assembly Doraville.
The developer has named the proposed development “Nexus.” And certainly, the area is a true connection between the future city of Lavista Hills, Tucker, Norcross and Dunwoody/Sandy Springs.
I think the whole path of growth is northward along the Gold Line,” Macauley said in an article in the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Macauley is already an investor in Assembly, which is under construction.
“We I love this entire area,” Macauley said. “We think it can connect the region.”
I’ll be keeping a close eye on this development and how it moves through the planning process in Doraville. This is an area to watch.
Third Rail Studios will join the growing number of film and television studios opening in the Metro Atlanta area. This studio will have a unique location as part of Assembly Doraville, which is the official name for the site where the GM Doraville plant is being redeveloped.
The Integral Group, which acquired the GM site last year, is partnering with Capstone South Properties to develop “Third Rail Studios” on a six-acre section of the 165-acre development.
The first phase of Third Rail Studios will be in an existing 130,000-square-foot building retrofitted into film and television production studios. It will include 60,000 square feet of sound stages and 20,000 square feet of production support mill shops, administrative offices and related vendor spaces.
MyMidtownMojo.com took a walking tour of the site that is still going through demolition.
You can learn more about the studio as it developsThird Rail Studios, or at our Facebook Page, Living Near Third Rail Studios on Facebook.
If you have been anywhere in Atlanta, you know that the film business is BIG business here. Studios from Pinewood Atlanta in Fayette County, Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta and Atlanta Filmworks are just a few of them.
And there are more on the way with Third Rail Studios just announced at the Assembly Doraville, Atlanta Metro Studios also in South Fulton area, and the proposed Atlanta Media Campus and Studios in Norcross.
But, it’s always good press and good news when a Producer of a major hit TV show sings the praises of the Atlanta Film community and what is like to do business here. Listen to Jeff Frelich, Producer of Halt and Catch Fire below.
Here at MyMidtownMojo.com we enjoy helping our clients as they look to either purchase investment property in the Atlanta area, or look to establish a new home here.
We can sign the praise of the Atlanta film community as well!
I’ll be the first to admit (and if you have lived anyplace for any length of time) that I’ve lived in Atlanta for many years, and there are some of these attractions I’ve never, ever seen! But knowing there is an opportunity to see them for… FREE…well just who can pass up an offer like that.
Especially take note of the Atlanta History Center and the High Museum as some great options. And the Georgia State Parks and Historic sites can be great for when you are looking for that Saturday or Sunday jaunt out of Midtown Atlanta to experience something new.
In the next couple years, Midtown Atlanta and West Midtown are either going to have oodles and oodles of people and cars all over the place, or lots of great deals on renting an apartment! Midtown Atlanta apartment construction just keeps adding projects!
Just as The Worthing companies are under construction with Heights At West Midtown (scheduled to open this Fall and pictured here), they have now filed land development permits with the City of Atlanta for the Old Georgia Steel property off of Howell Mill Road at 903 Huff Road. Walton Westside is just across the road.
Additionally, Modera Midtown, to be built on Peachtree Place, along Williams Street (that would be the vacant space behind ( or in Front of, depending on where you are) of the University House student apartments that are currently under construction at Spring and Peachtree Place.
Oh, and then there is 1010 West Peachtree, the site of the former Checker’s Drive in. This project will be 328 homes with 13,000 sq feet of retail space. And since the construction fence is up…expect to see this one start to rise soon.
One just has to wonder when there may be too much food on the Midtown Atlanta apartment banquet.
