NBA All-Star Allen Iverson’s Buckhead home that he lost in foreclosure is on the market for $2.7 million. The list price is a big drop from a purchase price of $4.5 million in 2010. The property – at 675 West Paces Ferry Road – is in a gated community. The six-bedroom home was built in [...]
Harlem Shake Video Lands Wells Fargo Employees in Trouble
March 26, 2013 | Posted by
A Wells Fargo spokesperson says the bank does not approve of a Harlem Shake video shot inside an Atlanta branch that has gone viral on the internet. More than 140,000 people have viewed the video on YouTube. It features a man in a ski mask dancing in the lobby of a Buckhead Wells Fargo branch. [...]
Atlanta’s Startup Community Gets New Tech Village in Buckhead
January 8, 2013 | Posted by
In the past few weeks, Pardot’s co-founder, David Cummings, purchased Ivy Place — the circa 1986, hedge-fundy-looking building at the corner of Lenox Road and Piedmont Road. It aptly has large, white letters spelling out “The Private Bank,” twice, on each corner of the building overlooking Buckhead. In an inexplicable turn of events, a building [...]
Buckhead Restaurant Icon Dante’s Going Down the Hatch
November 24, 2012 | Posted by
The end is nigh for Dante’s Down the Hatch, a 40-year-old Buckhead restaurant known for its fondue and crocodiles. Atlantic Realty Partners said it’s reached an agreement to acquire the restaurant at 3380 Peachtree Road. It wants to build a luxury apartment tower in its place. The 10-story building would have 219 units, according to [...]
Historic Georgian Mansion in Buckhead is Yours for the Taking – Video
September 9, 2012 | Posted by
Anyone who has traversed Peachtree Street in Buckhead more than once has no doubt seen this lovely-but-oh-so-out-of-place mansion and wondered what’s the deal. It certainly has more architectural merit than the condominium development it was displaced by 14 years ago, but Atlanta’s a city of the new and architectural merit or historical pedigree can only [...]
New Apartment Projects for Young, Affluent Sprouting Up Over Metro-Atlanta, Perhaps Too Many
July 30, 2012 | Posted by
The construction crane, an elusive sight during the economic downturn in Atlanta, has begun to reappear. But instead of building the office high-rises or condo towers that dot the city’s skyline, many of the cranes are piecing together apartment towers as the metro rental market heats up. New apartment projects are slated across the city, [...]
Atlanta Housing: A Few Neighborhoods Actually Have Bidding Wars
July 6, 2012 | Posted by
In an age of high foreclosures, rock-bottom home prices, slow sales and dropping property values, bidding wars are breaking out for some metro Atlanta homes. The hot competition is spurred by shrinking inventory and a run on homes with one or more desirable traits, such as good public schools, nearby amenities and competitive prices. Buyers [...]
