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SalesLoft to add 55 Atlanta Positions

August 8, 2014 by Thom Abbott

SalesLoft, a start up company that helps businesses find new customers has received some impressive financial muscle and will add some 55 positions to the company in the next two years.

Tom Noonan, a serial entrepreneur who sold Internet Security Systems Inc. to IBM Corp. for about $1.6 billion, recently invested $800,000 in SalesLoft.

The company headquarters is located in the Technology Building located at Piedmont Road and The Buckhead Loop. While housing opportunities exist in the area, SalesLoft employees might want to consider Midtown Atlanta as a great living option. Employees could even ride MARTA to the Buckhead Station and stroll through the Terminus development to their office building.

We look forward to helping these future SalesLoft employees find awesome places to live in Midtown Atlanta!

Does Apple Consider The Midtown Mile a “Bad Apple?”

April 15, 2014 by Thom Abbott

For those of us that live, work and play in Midtown Atlanta, you know we have restaurants on every corner….and in between. No shortage of those! (Some of them also seem to come and go before we even get a chance to sample them…i.e. La Tagliatella in Metropolis!)

One of the components that just seems to be missing is shopping. Not the $1000 chair kind of shopping either. Perhaps a gift boutique where you can grab that last minute condo-warming gift your forgot. Or perhaps some new designer undies. Or maybe a new MacBook Pro…..

Rumors have swirled several times in years past about Apple opening a flagship store in Midtown Atlanta. Heavens alive, there is enough technology being used in the Midtown area, and a glance at laptop logos in Starbuck’s at Peachtree and 7th will see plenty of the little apples indeed. There was once talk of the plaza at 999 Peachtree being turned inside out and an Apple Store Midtown Atlanta going there. It would seem Midtown has once again been overlooked by the fruit of the computer world.

CurbedAtlanta reported that a new store is headed for Cumberland Mall. While Cumberland Mall is physically closer to Midtown than Perimeter Mall, there is an Apple store at Lenox Mall in Buckhead. (Just don’t ever, ever go on a Saturday….Yikes!) And of course, the eco-conscious can take MARTA to Lenox or Perimeter Mall…but you will need 4 wheels to get to Cumberland Mall.

While Cumberland Mall will not confirm the addition of an Apple store, their leasing plans indicate otherwise…

So, why can’t we have an Apple Store Midtown Atlanta?

Is Atlanta Ready (or Willing) For Transit?

March 21, 2014 by Thom Abbott

An informative post, but some what of an editorial one as well!

Atlanta is on the rise again! Cranes are coming out of the ground in Midtown and Buckhead as new apartment towers start to take shape. And yes, even the suburbs are on fire again as homes are being built and excess lot inventory is dropping to even critical levels in some areas!

But, is Atlanta Ready (or Willing) to embrace transit as a way to get to and from work? The first portion of an Atlanta Streetcar will open later this year in Downtown, between the Centennial Olympic Park and the Auburn District. Hopefully more to come in the future? Expansion of the MARTA rail line is doubtful due to the cost. So that leave bust transit, probably the most cost effective. So, will Atlanta embrace it…and will we need or use a Downtown Multi-Modal Transit Terminal like this?

Stories about the 119-acre development in the heart of Downtown Atlanta (can you wrap your head around the fact that a major metropolitan area HAS 119 acres in its DOWNTOWN to develop in the first place?) have appeared in both the Atlanta Business Chronicle and Curbed. com. It seems the folks at Curbed.com got access to a video that has since disappeared from any and all of the links referenced in each story. But you can see some more of the plans in the Curbed.com article here.

What do you think? Do you see Atlantan’s headed to Downtown from the burbs on buses?

5 Cities Buy More Than Half of All Electric Vehicles in U.S. | Autopia | Wired.com

March 12, 2014 by Thom Abbott

See on Scoop.it – Midtown Atlanta Conversations and Condos

It’s a stat that should surprise absolutely no one. More than half of all electric vehicles in the U.S. are silently running around five major cities.

Thom Abbott‘s insight:

An exact reason why recent development presented to the Midtown Alliance were told “You need to do more that put in the infrastructure for charging stations…you need to install charging stations.”

See on www.wired.com

Tyler Perry believed to be buyer of massive Douglas County…

February 27, 2014 by Thom Abbott

See on Scoop.it – Georgia Film & TV

A massive Douglas County property once slated for more than 1,300 residences has been sold to a company with apparent ties to entertainment mogul Tyler Perry.

Thom Abbott‘s insight:

Perry also owns 30+ acres adjacent to his current Atlanta Studio that can be further developed. Atlanta is ON FIRE when it comes to the film and television industry! Now, we just need more permanent shows to be filmed here.

See on www.ajc.com

NYC’s coming ‘supertowers’ are nothing to fear

February 16, 2014 by Thom Abbott

See on Scoop.it – Georgia Tech News Events

Who’s afraid of “supertowers” near Central Park? Most of the city’s inflexible preservationists, ivory-tower urbanists, community “activists,” pandering politicians, architectural critics and architects themselves, except for those fortunate enough to…

Thom Abbott‘s insight:

Our “Super Towers” may soon be here with new development planned for Midtown Atlanta at 60 Stories! I say BRING IT ON!!!

See on nypost.com

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