{"69508":{"#nid":"69508","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ambitious plans for a building where Sears served Atlanta: Professor Haddow remarks on the development challenge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe former Sears building now known as City Hall East, at 2.1 million square feet, has been mostly vacant since Sears left in 1989. A prominent Atlanta-based developer, Jamestown Properties, which owns Chelsea Market in Manhattan, bought the building from the city last month for $27 million. It expects to spend $180 million to convert it to a mixed-use cluster of restaurants, apartments, office space and perhaps even a rooftop amusement park, all renamed Ponce City Market, by early 2014. \u201cThat\u2019s a big hunk of building, and it\u2019s been dead space for so long,\u201d said David F. Haddow, a consultant and architecture professor at Georgia Tech. \u201cBut it\u2019s not going to be easy.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27215","created_gmt":"2011-08-22 14:54:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:03","author":"Mike Alberghini","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Extension of Self","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/17\/realestate\/commercial\/in-atlanta-big-plans-for-a-big-former-sears-center.html?_r=1","dateline":{"date":"2011-08-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-08-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"14079","name":"city hall east"},{"id":"14081","name":"haddow"},{"id":"14080","name":"mixed use"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}