
The Spanish Colonial Revival-style structure. Rag & Bone blog
A few months ago, North Carolina-based developer Grubb Properties demolished the old Grant Park School, a Spanish Colonial Revival-style structure built in 1930.
Source: In Atlanta’s Grant Park, 1930 school razed for luxury apartments, townhomes – Curbed Atlanta
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Keller Williams Realty Cityside
A pioneering adaptive-reuse property, the 500-unit landmark building was originally a 19th Century cotton mill. Transformed into lofts in the 1990s, it withstood a wicked fire in 1999 and a tornado nine years ago.
Source: For $525K, Cabbagetown loft is old, vast, borderline gothic – Curbed Atlanta
Residents say they’re sad to see FCS Ministries go but want new owner keep buildings standing
Rocereta, who helped lead the battle against the Fuqua proposal, says every person she’s talked to about the Stockade sale has expressed a desire to see the building reused. “No one wanted to see it torn down.”
via Grant Park to potential new owner of Atlanta Stockade: Don’t demolish the historic buildings, reuse them | Atlanta News & Opinion Blog | Fresh Loaf | Creative Loafing Atlanta.

The Jane at Grant Park is a great example of adaptive reuse. A former warehouse encompassing a full city block, The Jane now includes lofts, as well as retail and restaurants.
via CityLove: Tour Atlanta by Instagram | National Trust for Historic Preservation.

With its Central Food Hall modeled after Chelsea Market, boxcar bar and rooftop garden with mini-golf, PCM promises to be a “multiuse beacon of regenerative cool,” the magazine writes.
via PCM Heralded As Top New Attraction — In the World! – Market Watch – Curbed Atlanta.

“The first time I walked into this space, I knew right away,” Brazee recalls with a faraway look in his eyes. “The layout, all the things we could do. When you walk into a house, you know whether it’s your house or not. When I walked in here, I just knew.”
Brazee and Huff are partners in life and in business, running a successful real estate agency. So when the couple started exploring the old Kirkwood Library in east Atlanta, they saw past the commercial aspects of the 1942 building and the 1976 addition added to the back. They ignored the men’s and women’s restrooms, the exit signs, the 12-car parking lot.
Instead, they saw the bones of what would become their showcase house.

via Living in a library: a new chapter for an old property.
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