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Portman Takes Resi Tower to ATL Midtown Development Review Group

Portman Holdings presented detailed plans this week for a 36-story residential tower as part of the redevelopment of Midtown Atlanta’s historic H.M. Patterson & Son Spring Hill Chapel property. The developer is seeking an approval from the Midtown Development Review Committee (DRC) so it can move toward a groundbreaking next year.

The tower would include roughly 375 units with ground floor retail on a nearly four-acre hilltop site that overlooks Technology Square. Portman Holdings will preserve the landmark 90-year-old funeral home and its gardens, which received landmark designation in 2018.

Other components of the redevelopment include a 34-story office building and 24-story hotel. The developer plans to unveil more details about those more complex and connected elements in the future, once the residential component advances.

The Portman proposal seeks to organize an ambitious mixed-use development around the central focal point of an architecturally significant historic property. The project was well-received by the DRC, with some items needing additional consideration to meet code, including: providing full streetscape along Spring St. and a clearer pedestrian connection between Spring and Williams streets, finding alternatives that can reduce the number of curb cuts on Spring St., providing a setback along the north property line, and showing additional detail on street level façades.

 The DRC is expected to provide formal comments to Portman’s team and the city later this week. It is likely Portman will make a follow-up presentation to the DRC in June/July. Portman indicated during the DRC review meeting Tuesday evening that they anticipate breaking ground on the residential tower within the first half of 2021.

* Rendering courtesy of HKS/Cooper Carry/Portman

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Dennis Kaiser is Vice President of Public Relations and Communications for Connect Creative. Dennis is a communications leader with more than 40 years of experience including as a journalist and in corporate and agency marketing communications roles. He is responsible for Connect Creative’s agency client services and is involved in a range of initiatives ranging from public relations and content strategy, communications and message development, copywriting, media relations, social media and content marketing services. Prior to joining Connect Media in 2015, his most recent corporate communications roles involved leading a regional public relations effort across Southern California for CBRE, playing a key marketing role on JLL’s national retail team, and directing the global public relations effort at ValleyCrest (BrightView), the nation’s largest commercial landscape services company. He has worked on marketing communications assignments for such CRE companies as Blackstone/Equity Office, Carlyle, Caruso, Disney Resorts, GE Capital, Irvine Company, Hines, Howard Hughes Corp., Jeffries, Lennar, MGM, Marcus & Millichap, Prologis, Raleigh Studios, Simon, Starwood, Trammell Crow Company, Transamerica, UBS and Wynn Resorts. Dennis has also worked on communications and launch strategies for a number of consumer electronic, media and tech brands including SlingMedia, Channel Master, Deluxe Media Entertainment, BeIn Sports, EchoStar and Sprint. Dennis’s agency background included firms such as Off Madison Ave., Idea Hall and Macy + Associates. He has earned an outstanding reputation with organization leaders as a trusted advisor, strategic program implementer, consensus builder and exceptional collaborator. Dennis has developed and managed national communications programs for Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, both public and private. He’s successfully worked with journalists across the globe representing clients involved in major-breaking news stories, product launches, media tours, and company news announcements. Dennis has been involved in a host of charitable and community organizations including the American Cancer Society, Easter Seals, Boy Scouts, Chrysalis Foundation, Freedom For Life, HOLA, L.A.’s BEST, Reach Out and Read, Super Bowl Host Committee, and the Thunderbirds Charities.

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