A new interstate-adjacent office venture is beginning to stand out near Midtown and Buckhead.
The 16-story State of Georgia project broke ground last fall at 1715 Northside Drive NW, just south of Interstate 75 in Loring Heights.
More than a half-dozen floors have been built from the ground up to date; most of them will be devoted to parking, officials have said.
Brasfield & Gorrie construction company and developer TPA Group demolished a longstanding strip club, a gas station, and other properties last year to clear the 12-acre site for development.
Parking and base levels at 1715 Northside Drive NW, as seen Saturday, with roughly 10 stories left to go. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta
Courtesy of ERSGA
The 250,000-square-foot office project will house the headquarters of two Georgia retirement systems: Employees’ Retirement System of Georgia and the Teachers Retirement System, along with the state’s Division of Investment Services.
Both pension agencies are currently housed at the Two Northside 75 office complex, located just south of the new building site off Northside Drive.
Jim Potvin, ERSGA executive director, told Urbanize Atlanta in November the building will count seven parking levels—one below grade, the rest above. Above that will be the quarter-million square feet for offices spread across nine floors, for a total above-grade building height of 15 floors.
The state plans to occupy six of the office floors and lease the remaining three to an outside tenant or tenants, per Potvin.
How the 1715 Northside Drive NW project relates to a dozen lanes of Interstate 75 in the area, as seen looking northwest. (Note: Photographer was not driving.) Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta
The 1715 Northside Drive site (in red) in relation to Northside Drive landmarks and I-75, northwest of Midtown. Google Maps
The Northside Drive site was assembled from separate properties where the Diamond Club, a Shell gas station, and years ago Waffle House had operated. The former strip club and its parking lots, reportedly purchased for $15 million, constituted the bulk of the property.
According to Brasfield & Gorrie, construction at 1715 Northside Drive is scheduled to finish in March 2028.
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