Trinity Triangle Development Still Held Up By Sewer Payment
Decatur Metro | September 18, 2014 | 11:45 am
According to the AJC’s Bill Banks – in the county by county rundown – Trinity Triangle still doesn’t have a construction state date, despite evidence of recent action on the site (demolishing the Dairy Queen and beginning some on-site leveling).
According to Banks, “Centro Development principal owner Kent Collins said his company is negotiating with the county and city on “how much to pay” regarding the sewer, which wasn’t replaced when the city upgraded Maple’s storm water pipes over a year ago.”
I understand the city’s desire not to dictate uniform design standards to ensure Decatur retains the look of a “real” place and not turn into Serenbe or the like. But we should also have SOME design standards.
This building is absolutely awful looking. It looks like a Soviet style apartment building. I’m all for increased density on this section of Trinity but we will come to regret allowing this design to be constructed in 10-20 years.
I agree about the “functional design” of the building. Decatur is becoming a condo canyon and losing any and all small town charm. Every building has a flat face right up to the lot line. No design sense or excitement. Even the dorm of Georgia State Universify, which is dominating most of the central city, have more of a design esthetic and some architectural interest.
Typically I am libertarian on such issues, but I agree on having standards dictated by government on this point. The residents of the Decatur have an interest in the aesthetics of their city and reasonable standards on aesthetics would not burden landowners in an onerous way.
Developer demand in this city is extremely high. Decatur can afford to be picky.
A recent survey sent by Decatur listed whether it was a good idea to impose such standards on commercial development. The results were overwhelmingly in favor, so hopefully this is something that will happen before too many other eyesores are constructed.
What are “reasonable standards on aesthetics?” Sounds to me like a euphamism for “you may only build what we hapen to like.”
I still don’t understand why so many people think this is so ugly.
I don’t either. It looks like a fairly clean design. As someone here pointed out when this was discussed a while back, it’s not like there is any “standard” around there for it to blend in with now. I suppose they could have designed something a little more interesting or cutting edge, but I’m not sure if that would get much praise either. Far more important to me is how ingress and egress is managed and that the vicinity be more pedestrian-oriented than it is now.
Every citizen should submit their own drawings as to how the buildings should look. They can pick the winner at the beer festival .
Esthetics are certainly important, but density is often the key to desirable urban living. German cities are an excellent example. They contain a hodgepodge of nice pre-war building and many, uninspired modern buildings. But, they have density (and what we would call mixed-use), which creates an excellent urban vibrancy. Decatur is not a small town and should not think of new buildings in that way. More density in and round the downtown and also throughout the entire the city will be a good thing.
Emory comes to Agnes Scott.
I don’t get this one. You mean like Emory Pointe comes to the Agnes Scott area? The building doesn’t look as nice as either Emory or Agnes Scott buildings to me. Not that I have a definite opinion on the building. I’m still trying to figure out how a rectangle is fitting on a triangular space.
Yes, that was my pointe.
Just to clarify, the design posted above is pretty conceptual in nature and not a good depiction of the project that was approved.
Cool beans, can you point us to a what was approved?
I don’t have any issue with the design, but I do have issue if the developer is trying to get away without paying for the impact of the building on our infrastructure. We have looked at that vacant lot for a while now and I, for one, can keep waiting til they get it right. Hold the line City/County!