Images have surfaced that lend a clearer picture what a highly amenitized office venture with architecture described as “statuesque” will look like in a prominent Peachtree Road location.

Promising a “new brand standard” in Buckhead, Highwoods Properties and Brand Properties have formed a joint venture to build a 135,000-square-foot office project at 2827 Peachtree Road in the Garden Hills neighborhood.

The site, situated just north of Fellini’s Pizza, has been fenced-off and vacant for about seven years—and the subject of neighborhood pushback on earlier development designs.

CBRE marketing materials, chockfull of lofty descriptions, paint a clearer picture as to what the 2827 Peachtree project will entail. It’s called “Buckhead’s ultimate business platform,” with “statuesque architecture [and] state-of-the-art features and amenities.”

Plans for the Peachtree Road facade, retail, and restaurant spaces in Garden Hills. CBRE

Those perks will include a motorcourt with valet parking for office tenants, on-site car detailing, elevated patio spaces with WiFi, and private balconies, per CBRE.

Like other pandemic-era office ventures around Atlanta, some floors will have direct access to a parking deck to minimize the need for elevators and other entryways.

Typical office floorplates will span 27,500 square feet, in addition to 10 executive suites. At street level, expect 1,500 square feet for retail shops and 11,000 square feet for two chef-driven restaurants, according to marketing materials.  

All told, the offices are being positioned to offer “the prestige of a Buckhead location and the ease of Garden Hills access,” as marketers put it.

Plans for a main Peachtree Road entry. CBRE

The grassy site is the former location of Garden Hills Shopping Center, a charming Peachtree strip that once housed Garden Hills Cinema, Fantasyland Records (for more than three decades), and a multitude of other businesses.

Earlier proposals to redevelop the property were lightning rods for controversy, after a fire had rendered the shopping center uninhabitable in 2013. The site has been vacant—save for a tall fence along Peachtree Road and a few trees—ever since.

The $79-million project is already 62 percent pre-leased to multiple, unspecified tenants, development officials announced earlier this month.  

Developers plan to break ground on the boutique office venture in the first quarter of this year and deliver it in the third quarter of 2023.

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