Check Out Trinity Triangle Building Layout & Landscaping
Decatur Metro | June 3, 2015 | 2:34 pm
I know there have been some questions about the layout of Trinity Triangle (aka “Arlo”) in the past, so I thought I’d pass along this new rendering that’s been posted on the ColeJenest and Stone website.
As you can see, Trinity Triangle is very much a triangle. It’s parking deck entrance/exit is along Trinity Place and the parking deck is backed up against East Howard (which we all know already from the real world version). It looks like there will be an interior courtyard with a pool and a fair amount of landscaping along the three surrounding streets (Howard, Church and Trinity)
What else do you all see that’s new/of interest?
On the web site they say there will be 6 Live/Work units. Anyone know what that means?
If they’re still in the plan, they’re typically like the two story units in the Artisan (one of which is the Splash of Olive store) where the sidewalk level is a retail or office space and the second floor is an apartment.
Jinx!
Gotcha. Thanks!
And are they ever used? Honest question.
Splash of Olive had the stairs removed (I watched the workers do it, and we could feel it in the building the day they were taking them out) when renovating, and I have no idea if Common Ground realty (the other Artisan unit like that) has any formal “live/work” use/relationship with the unit it is attached to.
I lived in Brookhaven about 10 years ago when the condos/townhomes went up across the parking lot from the MARTA station there. Those too had “live/work” units that seemed like everyone just lived in them — the retail/frontage aspect of them did not look like they were well defined office spaces.
I guess I am wondering if these seem to sound better in theory than in practice? Lots of people work out of the home (like my spouse), but that does not mean requiring a well-defined workspace with separate entrance, or being equipped for street frontage and visibility.
It typically means a unit that has living space above an office or studio space. They have them at Glenwood Park off I-20 and Bill Kennedy and also at The Jane property on Memorial Drive in Grant Park.
Can’t tell where they will be located in this project, though.
I couldn’t help but notice this alarming “coincidence”: http://i.imgur.com/pSYJRqh.jpg
I’m concerned for you, Unconcerned Citizen, that you just let the Illuminati know that you are on to them. Might I suggest you wear a tinfoil hat till this all blows over?
Naahhhhh. It’s clearly “A”-shaped…you know, for “Arlo”. Eye of Horus = just a coinkidink. 😀
Is the pool big enough to swim laps in? Like the condo complex above the McKinney drugstore and Natural Body or whatever that spa is called? (Still trying to ditch my yard.)
If the rendering is to be believed, the pool is 30′ long. So, smallish laps.
Where will the DQ be located?!
I’d held out hope for a rotating rooftop DQ, but it seems to have been omitted from this design.
From June Focus: “The final lease documents on the Dairy Queen space have been signed. … space to be turned over to Mr Momin in late January for … reopening next spring.” So it’s gonna happen!
Well, this will be a traffic nightmare in in the AM and PM. The fire station might want to repaint the red and white stripes because they are going to need them.
I pity the folks trying to turn left into our out of the parking deck via Trinity during busy hours. Looks like there might be deck access off east howard as well?
You might be right Bulldog. On the other hand, if this is similar to other apartment projects within a short walk to a train station in the Atlanta region, 50% or more of the residents will: take MARTA to work, and/or will be students not on a typical work-day schedule, and/or will work from home, and/or will walk to work in downtown Decatur. Even those that drive to work like we all did in the 20th century won’t all come and go at exactly the same time. So I think there’s a chance it won’t be the nightmare you predict. But we’ll see.
I hope I’m not right, but I do have to wonder where MARTA goes that is helpful (aside from downtown), whether students could afford these units (probably not), and how many residents will actually work in downtown Decatur (hopefully a lot!). It would be nice to have at least two points of entry/exit. East Howard would make sense because it is one way (it is, isn’t it?).
There are two points: One on Trinity, one around back on Howard. Presumably, the Howard entry/exit will be resident only, just as the Artisan’s second gate on Marshall is. But I don’t know that for sure.
But to the other point, I think it would be more worrisome if residents were simply going to be assigned to live in these apartments. Then you could say, “What are the chances MARTA will really be of use to where they’re going?” But I think this project, and the other two coming online downtown, will benefit from consumer self-selection. People with complicated transportation needs won’t even consider them while those who already do work in downtown/midtown ATL (for example) and see MARTA as a benefit will see such apartments as conducive to a car-lite lifestyle.
My question is more, will there be enough people of this mindset / lifestyle goal to fill all three projects?
If there isn’t the self-selection you foresee, we’re in for some fun between the hours of 7a – 7p Monday – Friday. Don’t forget that living in Decatur, which is a very desirable community, could quite possibly be more compelling than a car-lite lifestyle.
The exact same MARTA system attracts residents, including large numbers of students, to nearby apartments in places like Chamblee and Lindbergh. I’ve conducted plenty of primary research to confirm that the apartment residents in these places use MARTA extensively. Many of them don’t own, or rarely use, cars, as will likely be the case here. The world has changed, apartment dwellers perceptions of MARTA have changed, this is no longer an exclusively auto-centric city – it might be hard to believe, but it’s most certainly true. Regarding similarities in rents in those places vs. this place – I don’t know. But the rents in those areas ain’t chump change.
No DQ in the rendering but I do see the obligatory sign for “Yogurt” (frozen, presumeably).
Can we assume that there will be a traffic light where East Howard dead-ends onto Trinity? It’s already near impossible to turn left from East Howard onto Trinity, it will be even worse once this development is finished. And can we assume that the developer will cover some of the costs for this?
Anyone know how many, if any, public parking spots this whole deal is going to add to the area?
There’ll be whatever’s required for the retail in the building but, as I understand it, there’s also 30 dedicated spaces for the Kimball House.