Here's an opportunity to eat some old school BBQ & COME EXPERIENCE THE TEN FORTY COMMERCIAL LOFTS

Sorry for the ad...but If you want to check out the Ten Forty Commercial Lofts and get some old school bbq, (Harold's bbq) then check out our event posted below......which leads me to ask.....what is your favorite ATL bbq?
Some of my favorites are, Daddy D's, Harold's, Pig & Chick...and my new Favorite is Fox Bros on Dekalb Ave on the Little 5 & Candler Park border. Try the brisket chili!

More good beltline news!

Whether you think the Beltline is going to happen now or later...more good Beltline news continues to keep things positive. In today's AJC is the latest article for those who believe in the Beltline in some form; parks / trails/ light rail/ &/or development.

Let us know what form you believe the Beltline will evolve?

Experts Blame Water Mismangement For Drought Issues

An AP article today talks blames mismanagement of our water supply which has now pitted our state of Georgia against Alabama and Florida in trying to figure out the solution. Though today things look like they are getting better

Let us know how the water crisis has affected your life?

Cool website & Event...

There is a cool new website called Inhabit Atlanta that specializes in intown real estate, intown happenin's, and other cool stuff about Atlanta.

They are also having a party called the Inhabit Groove that will be held at the Ten Forty Commercial Lofts on Saturday Night November 17th. Check out their website for RSVP info and more...

Grant Park & Boulevard Heights Area Rumor !?

Word on the street in the Grant Park & Boulevard Heights area is that a new retail development is in the works... close by. We have heard that it may include a major grocer and other "needed" collateral retail for the southern Grant Park & northern Boulevard Heights neighborhoods.
Check back for more details as I learn em'.

The Beltline actually is Starting?

According to an article in the AJC today, work on a section of the Beltline is actually going to start. This is a great first step in trying to make the Beltline a reality!
Hopefully more of this will start to happen.
see the article below...

Beltline project begins this weekend

By PAUL DONSKY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 10/18/07

Work is to begin this weekend on the first stretch of Atlanta's BeltLine project, two years after the massive redevelopment effort won approval from city, county and school officials.

Granted, it's a modest starting point: a 1.7 mile-long walking and biking trail in southwest Atlanta, a tiny portion of what is envisioned to be a more-than 30-mile path snaking through dozens of intown neighborhoods. Volunteers will begin clearing debris from the trail's route on Saturday; it likely will be several decades before the entire BeltLine is completed.

Elissa Eubanks/AJC (ENLARGE)

Ed MBrayer, the executive director of PATH shows a reporter around the area in Atlanta where the proposed BeltLine will be built. The BeltLine will combine greenspace, trails, transit, and new development along 22 miles of rail segments that encircle Atlanta.

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But as a first step, the project holds symbolic importance, officials say.

"It's a very important beginning for us," said Tina Arbes, chief operating officer of BeltLine Inc. "It becomes a real demonstration of what the whole BeltLine project is all about."

The BeltLine is a $2.8 billion effort to turn largely abandoned freight railroad corridors that circle downtown Atlanta into a loop offering 33 miles of trails, 22 miles of transit, parks and new development.

Saturday's cleanup in southwest Atlanta promises to transform weedy patches, trash-strewn lots and kudzu-choked thickets into a linear park with manicured lawns, paved and lighted paths, and new trees planted by Trees Atlanta. Existing parks along the route will get spruced up as well.

Interest in the cleanup has been so strong, all volunteer slots for Saturday have been filled.

The path will wind through the West End and Westview neighborhoods. Construction is expected to begin early next year and last about eight months.

Westview resident Scott Smith said he hopes the new trail helps revitalize his neighborhood, which has been hit hard by foreclosures.

"It should mark a significant turnaround for the community's development," said Smith, who plans to take part in the cleanup, "It will get rid of the kudzu and stop the illegal dumping ... and get more people interested in looking at the community."

The project is significant in that it's the first part of the BeltLine that people will be able to see and use, said Ed McBrayer, executive director of the nonprofit PATH Foundation, which is working with BeltLine Inc. and overseeing the development of the southwest Atlanta trail.

Much of the work on the BeltLine up to this point has taken place behind the scenes, as officials worked to secure land for future parks, obtain right of way, and begin the extensive planning process that will determine what the finished product will look and feel like.

That's led some people to wonder whether the BeltLine was happening at all, McBrayer said.

The trail "will give credibility to the BeltLine," he said. "This will make it real. All of this work isn't just a pipe dream."

BeltLine's progress also has been hampered because the project's primary source of funds — a special property tax district — has been challenged by a Buckhead lawyer. The case remains tied up in court.

Plans call for much of the BeltLine's price tag to be covered by any incremental increases in city, county and school property taxes in the tax district, which includes property surrounding the BeltLine corridor.

The lawyer, John Woodham, says the state constitution forbids school taxes to be spent on anything other than education. A Fulton County judge disagreed, but Woodham has appealed to the state Supreme Court.

The trail portion to be started Saturday is not affected by the funding dispute because it is to be paid for by grants. It follows an abandoned railroad trench that runs between I-20 on the north and Rose Circle Park on the south. Much of the trail runs along White Street, where one lane will be taken from the lightly traveled corridor to make room for the path, McBrayer said.

For now, the trail will terminate in a heavily wooded patch behind Brown Middle School. An adjacent dead-end road is covered with weeds and littered with empty potato chip bags and soft drink bottles.

"This will be one of the biggest transformations right here," McBrayer said as he stood in the garbage-strewn lot. "This is just begging to be a park."

The 1.7-mile stretch is the first out of the gate for the BeltLine because the PATH Foundation has been working for years to build a trail in the area. It has obtained a federal grant that will pay for about half of the project and has applied for a grant from a local foundation to cover the remaining cost.

More Beltline...

The Atlanta Beltline has just redesigned their site.....check it out!

http://beltline.org/

The ZOO

Ten Forty Commercial Lofts is literally a five minute walk to the Atlanta ZOO. I checked out the ZOO on Sunday for the first time since I was a kid. It is pretty cool that there are habitats for lions, silverback gorrilas, and pandas just minutes away from the office!

check out the pics...

The First C.O.'s & Boulevard Crossing Park link

The First Certificates of Occupancy were issued at the beginning of this week at Ten Forty!
Chair 74 is up & running, Eventologie & Fleur Elysee Salon are finishing up their build-out, and the PSA Mags crew are beginning to start construction. Things are coming alive at Ten Forty!



Check out this link to an article about the Boulevard Crossing Park

New park & residential development...down the street!

In addition to the Boulevard Crossing Park, (which will be the first Beltline Park created), another new development with another new park has just been announced....right down the street from Ten Forty!
Check out the article below from the AJC.

Plan for $75 million Beltline project unveiled

By KEVIN DUFFY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 10/05/07

The Lane Company plans to build 342 apartments and 57 townhomes in Grant Park near the proposed Beltline.

Plans include an 8-acre park, with a dog park, volleyball courts and a garden, and a parking deck for more than 500 vehicles.

The as-yet unnamed $75 million development will be on 18 acres fronting Confederate Avenue, between Avondale and Lester avenues.

"If you go down there and drive around, you'll see it has turned," said Edward Monarchik, Lane development partner, about the transitional neighborhood. "It has made that turn to the upside."

He said Grant Park has few apartments similar to what Lane plans. The complex will have a pool, and rents will start around $1,200 a month.

The new park will front Confederate, just east of the Beltline rail tracks. The Beltline is a proposed 22-mile transit loop on active and abandoned rail lines that would create a lot more green space in the city.

The two four-story apartment buildings will go up behind the park, concealing most of the parking deck. The townhomes will be built to the rear of the property.

Construction is expected to begin by January. The townhomes will get underway after the apartments have begun. The first apartment units should be available in the spring of 2009. The entire project could be wrapped up in 2010.

Homes sales have been in a slump, but Monarchik said "historically in that area, the townhome market has done rather well."

Lane Company built several apartment buildings at Atlantic Station, as well as element, a condo project.

Ten Forty Video...

Just saw the first rough cuts if the Ten Forty Commercial Lofts video. Check in soon to see it posted. JC and the gang are doing are great job!

College Football Fun

Headed down to Jacksonville last weekend to see Florida State and Alabama play for the first time since 1974!
Great time and one of the best college football atmospheres I have been to in a long time!
Better news...As it would turn out the right team won as Bobby Bowden and the Seminoles defeated the Crimson Tide from Bama. Bowden added another notch on his historic claim as the one the best college footbal coaches of all time! The Noles take on NC State later today.

Big Week! Ten Forty Style!

Huge things happenin' at Ten Forty this week!...
It's the first week of October, starting to get a little cooler, and the Ten Forty Commercial Lofts are set to open....which means, the first tenants are starting to move in!

The guys at Chair 74 are finishing up their kitchen...which by the way they used reclaimed/recycled wood counter top for their break-area kitchenette..very cool.

April and the gang at Eventologie have the suite painted their signature colors with enviro-friendly paints.

Bizette w/Fleur Elysee Salon is full steam ahead with their build out. She has one of the suites with the glass block accent.

Exciting things for Ten Forty with more to come.

The Ten Forty Community Grows

I would like to welcome another new “anchor tenant” to the Ten Forty Commercial Lofts Community, PSA Mags.

PSA site says

Publication Services of America (PSA) creates non-traditional revenue streams for its newspaper partners by publishing custom, localized, full-color, glossy niche magazines syndicated through newspapers across the United States. PSA's award winning magazines - from house to HOME™, Better Health & LIVING™, de casa y HOGAR™ and WEDDING VOW™ - are distributed in more than 50 markets, reaching approximately two million selected newspaper subscribers. PSA is the newspaper industry's largest magazine publisher.

We are very excited that PSA Mags will occupy suite A, and join the evolution of the Ten Forty Commercial Lofts.

What Is The Beltline Project?

One of the exciting features of the Ten Forty commercial lofts is that is sits in a very convenient Beltline Project area that will make your location walking distance from a Beltline rail stop when the line is finally completed. Heard a lot about the Beltline and still don't know what it is? Here's a Beltline primer for you:

From Beltline.org
The BeltLine, a 22-mile loop of historic railroad that encircles downtown and midtown, is a unique opportunity to increase greenspace, improve transit, connect neighborhoods and foster livable communities. The BeltLine will connect 45 in-town neighborhoods with parks, transit and trails for commuters, bicyclists and pedestrians. The line will spur economic development and enhance mobility.

For more information click here

Ten Forty Welcomes Our First Tenants

We are proud to announce our first tenants in the Ten Forty commercial lofts. Excited to say we couldn't be surrounded by a better group of anchor tenants. Our new crop includes:

• Chair 74 (Advertising Agency)
• Eventologie (Event Planning Firm)
• Fleur Elysee Salon
  

In the coming weeks we will give you more background on your Ten Forty community.