By: Tonya Layman | Atlanta Business Chronicle – With two suburban-like shopping malls and several parking-lot-heavy shopping centers surrounded by office buildings and hotels, Buckhead is not known as the most pedestrian-friendly community in Atlanta. But that is changing, and a number of high-rise residential developments hitting the market are playing a role in that transformation.
According to Denise Starling, executive director of Livable Buckhead, developers are seeing the value in vertical development.
“Essentially what is happening in Buckhead, all the new high-rise developments have created a new neighborhood, a whole new group of people turning our streets into a 24/7 need. The new residents in our commercial core have created walkers within the district,” she said. “Developers are looking at the demands and seeing there is a need and that they will do well here.” Therefore, more development is slated for the community – a lot more, she said.
