Tall & Urban News

A major mixed-use development in the West Midtown neighborhood of Atlanta is moving forward with leasing efforts, inking a major deal with an international hospitality brand recently.

The Star Metals development, straddling the fast-evolving Howell Mill Road corridor, recently secured a deal with Social Entertainment Ventures.

That’s an “activity-based” hospitality group that’s claiming 10,000 square feet (930 square meters) at the project’s under-construction office stack, according to an announcement the week of 1 April 2020 from SRS Real Estate Partners.

Although the new tenant has not yet specified what its incoming concept will be, it’s launched destinations centered around ping-pong and darts in the past, officials say it will open in summer 2021.

Developed by The Allen Morris Company, the Star Metals complex is ultimately expected to feature 185,000 square feet (17,000 square meters) of office space, 409 luxury residential units, 48,000 square feet (4,500 square meters) of retail options, and a 176-key hotel.

Most of that retail space will be housed at the ground floor of the 13-story, tiered office tower, where Social Entertainment Ventures is setting up shop.

It’s unclear where exactly within the building the new attraction will be located, but the Oppenheim Architecture-designed tower is designed be more than your everyday office structure.

With interior spaces designed by local firm Square Feet Studio, the office building is slated to feature a 10,000-square-foot (930-square-meter) amenity level on the seventh floor that would be replete with an outdoor terrace, a conference room, boardroom, and covered outdoor seating.

For more on this story, go to Curbed Atlanta.