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Project to Cement Atlanta’s Reputation as Tech Hub By Cindy Riley
tion of office space,” and will serve as a landmark for the city of Atlanta. “We believe innovation is generated by looking at things in a different way,” said Pierluca Maffey, vice president of design of John Portman & Associates. “So we are creating spaces that allow brilliant thinkers, creative minds and smart business people to come together, share their points of view and start a process that leads to the next big idea.”
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In Atlanta, Ga., construction continues on a $375 million mixed-use project that will mesh research with commercialization. When it opens in 2019, Coda at Tech Square will provide 770,000 sq. ft., of office, retail and technological areas, positioning the city as a major tech hub. “Coda is a unique development, and is part of Portman’s vision to advance Midtown Atlanta as a leading national location for technology and innovation,” said Hunter Richardson, executive vice president of development, Portman Holdings. “With each construction milestone, we get more excited about the potential for this development to add more energy to this part of the city.” With five levels of underground parking, the high-profile endeavor has required a mass excavation of 160,000 cu. yds. of dirt, so far. This amounts to 16,000 dump truck loads of soil hauled off, which, if lined back-to-back, would stretch from Atlanta to Macon. Because of the extraordinary amount of dirt moved and approximately 90,000 man hours invested, officials held a “bottoming out” ceremony to mark the end of this phase of construction. “Our team and the many stakeholders who are making Coda a reality came together to acknowledge the hard work done to date, and to remind each other of just how transformative this development really is,” said Richardson. “This was the inflection point when we transitioned from excavation to vertical construction. We are now building up toward an
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In Atlanta, Ga., construction continues on a $375 million mixed-use project that will mesh research with commercialization. When it opens in 2019, Coda at Tech Square will provide 770,000 sq. ft., of office, retail and technological areas, positioning the city as a major tech hub.
even more vibrant future for Midtown Atlanta.” According to Georgia Institute of Technology president G.P. “Bud” Peterson, “Since it first opened 13 years ago, Technology Square in Midtown Atlanta has rapidly become one of the leading regional innovation hubs in the southeastern United States. Tech Square promotes and facilitates innovation and collaboration between businesses and industry and the Georgia Tech community.” The school will be the anchor tenant, occupying approximately half the 620,000 sq. ft. of office space. Portman Holdings owns the tower, with John Portman & Associates designing the facility. “Coda, which includes a high performance computing center,
will take innovation to a whole new level,” said Peterson. “This iconic building developed by Portman Holdings will become a magnet for corporations and startups alike, while serving as a stateof-the-art resource for breakthrough research. This new facility will help propel the region and Midtown Atlanta as one of the leading innovation ecosystems in the Southeast and the nation.” In December 2016, hundreds gathered for a ceremony to celebrate the formal start of construction for the 21-story office tower, which will have close proximity to MARTA and major highways. The structure is located near Atlanta arteries I-85, I-75, Hwy 78, Spring Street and West Peachtree Street NW.
Targeted for LEED-Platinum certiDPR Construction photo fication by the U.S. DPR Construction was hired to build Green Building Coda, which will occupy an entire city Council, Coda will block, and include a unique preservation incorporate a number of the historic Crum & Forster building. of unique green feaTech Square is considered an tures, including twin stack elevaideal location for tech startups and tors and chilled beams that will university spinoffs. The area has help with temperature control, and attracted industry innovation centhe use of recaptured grey water to ters that include AT&T Mobility, cool the computer center. The Panasonic Automotive, Southern design includes the creation of an Company, Delta Air Lines, The outdoor urban plaza bordered by Home Depot, Coca-Cola retail and a giant interactive media NCR and wall, a high performance data cen- Enterprises, ThyssenKrupp Elevator Americas. ter and two office towers connected by a central collaborative core. Along with the new NCR world The collaborative core will be a headquarters under development gathering space connecting every and Tech Square Labs, the eightfloor from top to bottom. The block Tech Square campus will design represents the “next generasee ATLANTA page 2