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Powers Ferry Road redevelopment projects getting underway

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Powers Ferry Road redevelopment projects

Two Powers Ferry Road redevelopment projects that are considered major efforts to revitalize that corridor are starting to take initial shape. Over the weekend we swung by both to capture the work in progress.

Above is the parking deck for a apartment building at MarketPlace Terrell Mill, fronting Powers Ferry, where a low-slung office park once stood. When its complete, the nearly 300-unit apartment building will wrap around the deck, which won’t be visible like it is now.

Along Terrell Mill Road, the only other structure going up for now is a self-storage building, next to the Salem Ridge condominiums.

Powers Ferry Road redevelopment projects

The $120 million MarketPlace Terrell Mill project, being built by Eden Rock Real Estate Partners, will include a Kroger superstore, restaurants and other shops and retail space. Here’s the promotional brochure and a rendering Eden Rock is sending out to prospective tenants; none other than Kroger have been announced thus far.

Eden Rock partner Brandon Ashkouti told the Powers Ferry Corridor Alliance this spring that the timetable for completion of MarketPlace Terrell Mill is around 24 months.

That was before the Georgia Supreme Court in June upheld the issuance of Cobb Development Authority bonds for Kroger, which had applied for a tax abatement that was challenged legally.

Kroger, which will build on the site of the former Brumby Elementary School as the last phase of the MarketPlace Terrell Mill development, qualified for the abatements since the land was on the county’s redevelopment list.

The dental office that’s gone up at the corner of Powers Ferry and Terrell Mill is not part of the MarketPlace project.

Powers Ferry Road redevelopment projects

Down the road on Powers Ferry, what has been called Restaurant Row is no more. Clearing and grading crews have flattened five free-standing buildings that housed restaurants, with only the Rose and Crown still in business.

Above is where the Rose and Crown once stood. It’s slated to be part of a new mixed-use development by Greystar Development Group, an Atlanta apartment developer, that includes a 280-unit apartment building (Elan at Powers Ferry), and a 170-unit senior living building (Overture at Powers Ferry) and restaurant/retail space.

Rose and Crown closed in July and its owners are running Mojave, a restaurant on Powers Ferry Road in Sandy Springs, until then.

The 8.8-acre tract fronts the entrance to the Wildwood office park. Construction also is expected to last for two years.

A back view facing Powers Ferry and north, at the Windy Hill Road intersection.

 

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Rose and Crown Tavern closing for 2 years in Restaurant Row redevelopment

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This has been anticipated for a few months now, and it’s official: The Rose and Crown Tavern on Powers Ferry Road has announced its temporary closure.

The last remaining survivor of “Restaurant Row” will close next Saturday, July 13, for a two-year period as the cluster of restaurant buildings makes way for a new mixed-use development.

Rose and Crown will be part of that project, with expanded space in a retail component in a 578,000-square foot complex that will include a 280-unit apartment building and 171 senior-living units.

The rezoning for the 8.8-acre project was approved last August. The project is being developed by Greystar Development Group of Atlanta.

Ground is expected to be broken this month for the project. The apartment building is being called Elan at Powers Ferry, and the senior homes will be called Overture Powers Ferry.

Miguel Ayoub opened Rose and Crown in 2010 with his wife at a former La Madeleine restaurant at 1931 Powers Ferry Road. In the new development, the Rose and Crown space will take up 6,000 square feet of a planned 10,0000-square foot retail center.

The property is near the Wildwood Office Park, but other restaurant concepts nearby have come and gone: A Sal Grosso Brazilian steakhouse, TGI Friday’s and Famous Dave’s.

While Rose and Crown is shuttered, the Ayoubs will be running Mojave, a casual Latin restaurant at the former Ray’s Rio Bravo at 6450 Powers Ferry Road, just across the river in Sandy Springs.

A late July opening date for Mojave is planned.

 

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East Cobb Restaurant Row, Wigley Road zoning cases up for action Tuesday

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Rendering of a proposed 290-unit apartment complex on Powers Ferry Road at Windy Ridge Parkway, where the vacant TGI Friday’s building sits.

Just a quick final glance at items we’ve tracked previously that are on Tuesday’s Cobb Board of Commissioners zoning hearing (agenda summary here), which includes the East Cobb Restaurant Row and Wigley Road applications, with information updated as of Friday:

Here’s the agenda item packet for the Restaurant Row application on Powers Ferry Road, which got a 4-1 vote to recommend approval from the Cobb Planning Commission but still has some vocal opposition.

Here is additional correspondence posted Friday, including a revised stipulation letter from Garvis Sams, attorney for Powers Ferry Investors LLC, the applicant, on Thursday, and a letter from Sheldon Schlegman, an architect with a practice nearby on Windy Ridge Parkway and a resident of the adjacent Horizons condominium building and who is against the application as presented.

Also in the Restaurant Row correspondence file are more traffic concerns about development in the Powers Ferry corridor and addressed to Cobb DOT by Patricia Zerman. She’s the president of the Salem Ridge HOA, which opposed the MarketPlace Terrell Mill project, and that county officials admitted would create more traffic problems in a clogged area:

“I am curious as to how the Cobb DOT plans on addressing the appalling outrageous increase in congestion, not withstanding the [MarketPlace] Development.”

Another Powers Ferry Road case, in fact just across the street from the Restaurant Row tract, also is on the docket. Here are the file details for the Chance Powers Ferry application to tear down the old Powers Ferry Woods office park for a mixed-use project on less than four acres, with 300 multi-family housing units and office space. The planning board also recommended that delayed request for approval.

Here is the agenda item packet for the Wigley Road application that was whittled down to 91 single-family homes when the planning board voted 4-1 to recommend approval.

A few East Cobb-area cases that won’t be heard Tuesday, after being continued by Cobb zoning staff to September:

The Cobb BOC zoning hearing starts at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the 2nd floor boardroom of the Cobb government building, 100 Cherokee St., in downtown Marietta.

 

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