(Photo courtesy of Urban Creek Partners)
An old abandoned granite quarry on Midtown Atlanta’s Westside is about to be transformed into a transit-driven mixed-use complex with office, residential, restaurants and retail.
Plus greenspace. Nearly 300 acres of open park space, athletic fields and walking trails that will be connected to the Beltline and the Bankhead MARTA station. The park includes an enormous reservoir that can hold up to 2 billion gallons of water — a month’s worth for the city.
The $400 million first phase of Quarry Yards will break ground this year, and will include:
- 575,000 square feet of Class A office space
- 75,000 square feet of restaurant and retail
- 850 residential units
- A 300-room hotel
Photo courtesy of Urban Creek Partners
When complete, Westside Park at Quarry Yards will be Atlanta’s largest, dwarfing the 185-acre Piedmont Park designed by the Olmsted Brothers, who took inspiration from their father, Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of New York’s Central Park.
Quarry Yards is being developed by Urban Creek Partners, which includes former Atlanta Braves player Mark Teixeira, Jimmy Barry and Joel Bowman. The master plan was designed by HKS Architects and Populous.
The project will breathe new life into a formerly blighted area that was once the Bellwood Quarry, a dirty and dangerous operation where convicts on chain gangs cut and hauled granite from the earth.
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