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When the Tony & Libba Rane Culinary Science Center opens next fall, it will represent both the literal and figurative intersection of campus and community. The 142,000-square-foot complex will house a luxury boutique hotel offering an open-to-the-public spa and rooftop bar. Also under its umbrella will be a coffee roastery and cafe, along with a microbrewery and tasting room, laboratories focused on distilled spirits and wine appreciation, a culinary-exhibition laboratory, media studio, and food hall. Its crowning glory will be 1856, a teaching restaurant set to feature a new dining concept each year from a nationally acclaimed chef in residence.... Read More

The potential BRT expansions come as malls around the country consider how to reshape dated retail into modern town centers ... “If we can get transit to these malls, especially in suburban locations, then we increase our reach tremendously,” said Nicolia Robinson, associate principal at Atlanta-based design firm Cooper Carry. “If we can do BRT, we should do it.”... Read More

Portman Residential, a sister company of Atlanta developer Portman Holdings, secured the financing for their first apartment tower ... Atlanta-based construction firm JE Dunn is the general contractor on the project. Atlanta-based architecture firm Cooper Carry is the architect for the apartment tower ... The unnamed 29-story project will have 370 units, a dozen of which will be penthouses. The project will also have 11,000 square feet of retail.... Read More

The 2021-2022 school year is underway at Midtown High School – where students and faculty returned last month to a renovated campus, a new visual identity and in-person learning during a persistent pandemic. The highlight of the $34.9 million renovation, funded by the one-penny Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (E-SPLOST), is a four-level addition. “For the first time in 20 or 30 years, we’re not making do,” said Midtown High School Principal Dr. Betsy Bockman. “The renovation is so respectful of the work we do here.” ... Read More

Songy Highroads intends to develop the site for a mixed-use project comprising more than 200 multifamily units, along with retail and hospitality uses ... Cooper Carry, an Atlanta-based architectural firm, is in charge of the development’s design. ... Read More

Windstar Cruises is undertaking an ambitious reimagining of its fleet with the Star Plus initiative. The $250 million transformation of its three Suite Class vessels – Star Breeze, Star Legend and Star Pride – touches all areas of the ships, from their efficiency to the overall guest experience ... The cruise line partnered with Ray Chung, director of design at The Johnson Studio at Cooper Carry for the project with the aim of creating a modern aesthetic for the new onboard spaces. ... Read More

Images and details have been submitted to Metro regarding a mixed-use tower Boca Raton, Florida-based Mill Creek Residential is eyeing for a Gulch site. As the Post recently reported, Modera McGavock will offer 400 residential units and 16,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space on a site with addresses of 1212, 1214 and 1218 McGavock St. According to the document, Atlanta-based Cooper Cary will serve as the architect, with the tower to rise 28 floors and about 310 feet. ... Read More

Grand Hyatt's 360-plus-key hotel will be a "prominent addition" to the Memphis skyline at the west end of Beale Street, a point emphasized by the board. The Grand Hyatt will face the Mississippi River and give a notable view of Downtown for Memphis visitors.... Read More

Density, density, density—that was the watchword that participants on the panel championed. Bill Halter, principal of Cooper Carry’s Office Workplace Studio, stated that “the structure of the suburbs is different. There’s no grid—they were formed by major highways going into smaller highways and then into subdivisions. But now suburbia is transforming and becoming denser.”... Read More

Already, Cooper Carry has removed 25% of the workstations at its Atlanta office at One Ninety One Peachtree Tower and replaced them with flex environments, partner Bill Halter said during the event. The Ardent Cos. CEO Matthew Shulman said one tenant in a Nashville building it owns offset a portion of its office space with a coworking operator in the same building.... Read More

The county intends to buy most of Spring Rock Green shopping center at the northwest corner of Midlothian Turnpike and Chippenham Parkway for $16 million and turn it into a mixed-use development. As envisioned, the project would include more than 1,000 residential units, more than 290,000 square feet of office, retail and restaurant space, a sports-and-entertainment venue and a 190-room hotel along with green spaces ... Atlanta-based architecture firm Cooper Carry has been hired to design the project.... Read More

Nicolia Robinson, associate principal at Cooper Carry, Planning Studio, helps balance a city's ambition for growth with its need to preserve its history and culture ... Trained as an architect and urban planner, Robinson is excited to see these projects, but said she also has concerns related to gentrification, mobility, anti-displacement and affordable housing.... Read More

Property Markets Group will develop the tower with 460 apartments, 76,500 square feet of office space and 15,600 square feet of retail. It will also build a 6-story parking deck with 455 spaces. Cooper Carry is the architect.... Read More

Property Markets Group and architecture firm Cooper Carry presented plans for 811 Peachtree Street. Known as “Society,” the 33-story tower would feature 15,600 square feet retail, 76,500 square feet office, 460 residential units, and a six-story parking podium.... Read More

Under Kyle Reis, Cooper Carry will explore how to expand the firm’s footprint, acquire new talent and build its services.... Read More