Ponce City Market to demolish parking deck in February

Jamestown Properties, a real estate investment firm headquartered in Atlanta, and its subsidiary, Green Street Properties, today announced in a press release that removal of the parking deck at Ponce City Market will commence shortly now that permitting from the City of Atlanta is complete.

“Ponce City Market began an interior transformation in October 2011 but this work is mostly invisible to the public eye,” Michael Phillips, managing director of Jamestown, said in the release.

“The removal of the 1960’s parking deck marks the beginning of a highly visible and significant effort to reconnect the site to the community through construction of pedestrian and vehicular access points along Glen Iris and North Avenues.”

Anticipated to begin three months ahead of schedule starting in February and continuing over the next four months, the parking deck along Glen Iris Drive will be demolished and the materials will be recycled. There will be no major road closures due to the demolition.

Originally the Sears, Roebuck and Company distribution center, the City of Atlanta purchased the building in 1990 to house employees and renamed it City Hall East. Upon Jamestown’s acquisition in July 2011, it was named Ponce City Market.

Ponce City Market renovations will be complete in spring 2014, according to the release.

The project will open in one phase and be a mix of commercial loft office space, retail, dining, entertainment and residential. Plans call for exciting sustainable initiatives such as a rooftop organic farm and rainwater harvesting. In addition, an urban food market is currently being planned as well as connectivity to the BeltLine.

Decatur’s Dancing Goats Coffee Bar is the first publicly confirmed tenant for Ponce City Market. Early renderings of Ponce City Market can be found here.