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Ryan Gravel and investment partner Donray Von could breath $350 million of new life into the West End shopping complex.
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Invest Atlanta, the city’s economic development booster, has kicked in funding to help a planned $350 million overhaul of Mall at West End get off the ground.

Atlanta Beltline visionary Ryan Gravel is part of a team that wants to transform the aged 12.5-acre property southwest of downtown, in an effort to help lift up an area that’s eventually planned to be better connected with the Westside Trail.

Invest Atlanta last week approved $2 million as a predevelopment loan for a project that would designate 20 percent of 450 residential units as affordable housing, according the Atlanta Business Chronicle, which also published new conceptual designs for what the mall could become.

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The shopping district today.
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Beyond housing, the initial venture by Elevator City Partners—cofounded by Gravel and area native Donray Von, a venture capitalist—would bring some 170,000 square feet of retail, more than 400 hotel rooms, and more than a half-million square feet of offices.

Elevator City Partners is angling to buy the 1970s mall property, and as attributes, they point to one-block proximity to West End’s MARTA transit station, access to Interstate 20 and downtown, and site’s status as a federal opportunity zone.

Gravel and Von have said the massive project would ideally feature job training and a $10 to $15 million fund dedicated to bolstering local businesses.

In an interview with CBS46 Atlanta this week, Von called the prospects of buying the mall where he grew up hanging out the “opportunity of a lifetime” and enough to lure him back from Los Angeles.

According to Invest Atlanta documents, the team’s acquisition of the mall could happen late this year, followed by the first phase of construction in fall 2020.
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Fresh renderings: Quest’s community-focused Westside mixed-use hub is rising
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The Nonprofit Center for Change promises an “urban-modeled Family Dollar,” farmers market, and more

By Sean Keenan@ThatSeanKeenan Aug 19, 2019, 12:32pm EDTShare this on Facebook (opens in new window)
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The project is slated to wrap in March 2020.
Renderings: Cooper Carry, via Quest Communities
As the forces of gentrification soldier on in Atlanta, it’s rare to see a mixed-use development that promises to do as muchfor the community as it does to the community.

But on the Westside, a good example of the former is on the rise.

Called the Quest Nonprofit Center for Change, the Cooper Carry-designed project is a 27,000-square-foot mixed-use build replete with coworking space and community services facilities.

The $10.2-million Vine City development would feature office space above 7,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, community space, and educational services at the junction of some of the city’s most underserved neighborhoods—Bankhead, English Avenue, Washington Park, and Vine City.

It’s transforming a corner property where Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard meets Joseph E. Boone Boulevard, formerly a rundown, suburban-style shopping center.

Slated for a March 2020 delivery, the QNCC is also expected to house a “newly designed, urban-modeled Family Dollar,” farmers market, financial services facility, and the new 8,000-square-foot home base of Quest Communities, the affordable housing-focused nonprofit anchoring the development.

Cooper Carry has designed the place to mesh with the industrial nature of neighborhing buildings on the Westside.

“The focal point of the pedestrian-friendly project is a street-level stoop with steps leading into the main building and activated with wood seating and raised landscaped planters for nearby residents to comfortably commune and connect,” according to a Cooper Carry press release.
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Two high school football game (tucker and Buford but they weren't playing each other) were cancelled because rain made the field unsafe.

This after game got pulled from downtown, one) because of price and two) after years of complaints of the cost of driving downtown, paying for hotels, restaurants, etc. They play in a dome, lest you forget. And it rains more in northern richer suburbs

Even in the worst of times, its always nice to see white arrogance slap itself in the face
 
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Two high school football game (tucker and Buford but they weren't playing each other) were cancelled because rain made the field unsafe.

This after game got pulled from downtown, one) because of price and two) after years of complaints of the cost of driving downtown, paying for hotels, restaurants, etc. They play in a dome, lest you forget. And it rains more in northern richer suburbs

Even in the worst of times, its always nice to see white arrogance slap itself in the face
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Were those games apart of the Corky Kell Classic?
 
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