Let’s talk about another office building for a change.

This morning’s AJC profiles the transformation of One West Courthouse Square from an office building evacuated by the CDC to a downtown educational hub thanks to the addition of The Arts Institute of Atlanta-Decatur and DeVry.

Not much new information in the article, but its a good read, and gives the city’s hypothesis on how an influx of students will change downtown in the coming years.

Seems like One West Courthouse Square is becoming an educational hub.

DeVry University/Georgia’s President announced today in a letter to “Georgia Employees” that they are downsizing from its DeKalb Industrial campus and moving to our glassy, Square building this autumn.

Geez…was this building completely empty prior to these academic tenets? When did all this space become available?

Hopefully this means even more lunchtime traffic for Decatur and perhaps it will help revitalize that sunken dead-zone patio area with the broken stone tables. That whole area is completely unacceptable if you ask me.

Thanks to Cherie and Rus to forwarding along this information!

If you’d like to read the President’s full message check out the continuation… Read the rest of this entry »