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Spearheaded by Forest City, which Brookfield acquired last year, the $330M redevelopment brought the aging Ballston Common Mall to life with a mix of today's trendiest retail concepts. From a food hall to an interactive adventure venue to a bowling alley-restaurant-and-bar hybrid, the Ballston Quarter redevelopment offers a glimpse into how developers hope to bring the shopping mall model into a new era ... Cooper Carry designed the redevelopment.... Read More

"At 4858 Battery Lane, the developer plans a 160-foot-tall building with 400 total units, designed by Cooper Carry. The architect would also design the adjacent building at 4900 Battery Lane, which is planned to be a 120-foot-tall building with 315 units."... Read More

"Cooper Carry, Choate Construction, and Banko Design will restore the 92,000-square-foot building, saving as much of the original design as possible, including an ornate lobby staircase with custom railings and marble floors." ... Read More

New Urbanism, as an overarching approach to community planning, promotes a lot of positive things—compact, walkable, dense, diverse, mixed-use neighborhoods that provide people with the ability to meet their daily needs without the use of a car, acknowledged Kristin Halloran, AIA, CDT, LEED AP BD+C, historic rehabilitation and adaptive reuse area leader, Cooper Carry, Atlanta. “However, I think that what most of the general public sees as the central focus of New Urbanism is a neo-traditional aesthetic—not even the form of the individual buildings, but the applied style—when that wasn’t originally the point,” she said. “New Urbanism is really just old urbanism. Before cars, cities developed all over the world as walkable, dense, mixed-use neighborhoods where everyone worked toward using space efficiently because it made their daily lives easier."... Read More

"Plans were filed March 8 in Atlanta to convert the Medical Arts Building into a 160-key hotel. The project would rehab the 12-story building and its original parking deck. It would include 2,000 square feet of ground-floor food and beverage space. Atlanta’s Cooper Carry is the architect. The circa-1927 building has long been an eyesore at the gateway to downtown. It’s sat vacant since a four-alarm fire in 1995, according to the Atlanta Preservation Center."... Read More

"The look of a restaurant tells a story about the space, said Juliana Kerschen, senior associate and project interior designer of The Johnson Studio at Cooper Carry. Lighting is key because it can do everything from set the eatery’s mood to inform diners about the nearest restroom. It can also highlight the aspects of a restaurant the designers find important such as artwork and textural details."... Read More

"IHG partnered with Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants on the food and beverage concepts, a key part of the circa-1976 Ravinia hotel transformation ... More than $20 million was poured into the Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter at Ravinia, Dunwoody's largest hotel. Veteran Atlanta hospitality design firm The Johnson Studio at Cooper Carry was the project architect."... Read More

"The Sandestin Hotel is being constructed by Batson-Cook. Cooper Carry is the architect for the hotel project. Other amenities in the property will include a spa and a fitness center, and over 20,000 square feet of meeting space including a 13,000-square foot ballroom, contiguous to the over 30,000 square feet of existing meeting space at Baytowne Conference Center."... Read More

"With a more modern and bright feel, the historic Boar’s Head Resort soon will have a revamped lobby, restaurant and main entrance for guests and community members to enjoy. Renovations that began last February are slated for completion at the end of March. The updates were designed by Johnson Studio at Cooper Carry in Atlanta."... Read More

"The development is proposed up to a maximum 5.6 million square feet, per the application, with residential, office, hotel, retail, institutional and civic uses all in the mix ... Three architects are listed on the project: Cooper Carry, Boulder, Colorado-based 505 Design and LandDesign, which is listed as the master planner and landscape architect."... Read More

"The new Clayton County Schools' Aviation & Innovation Career Academy build is contingent upon the approval of SPLOST VI. The SPLOST special election is March 19."... Read More

"Atlanta design firm Cooper Carry announced the appointment of Kristin Halloran as the firm’s historic rehabilitation and adaptive reuse area leader. "... Read More

"Global architecture/design firm Cooper Carry kicked off a 10-month master plan creation process for the city Jan. 23 with a presentation and open house about the site. The Atlanta-based firm is creating a concept master plan with a heavy focus on public engagement."... Read More

"Spearheaded by Atlanta-based The Johnson Studio at Cooper Carry, Crowne Plaza Ravinia’s renovation will also include an updated 32,000 square-foot meeting space and 12,000 square-foot ballroom." ... Read More

"At Natick Mall near Boston, landlord GGP Inc., which was recently taken over by Brookfield Property Partners, secured a grocery tenant for a space that formerly housed a J.C. Penney store. Wegmans Food Markets Inc. opened a store there last April. 'The building shells are more valuable in that they offer opportunity, and are very valuable for a variety of uses,' said Angelo Carusi, a principal at architecture firm Cooper Carry."... Read More