The Mandarin Oriental Atlanta is a future luxury condominium and hotel planned for Midtown Atlanta. First reported in the Atlanta Business Chronicle in March 2007, it was formally announced in November 2008, as a partnership between Mandarin Oriental and Tivoli Properties.
Scheduled to begin construction in 2009 and open in late 2011, it will be a 53-story skyscraper at 1138 Peachtree Street, along a section known as the "Midtown Mile". In addition to the 198 hotel rooms, there will be 71 residences. Averaging 2,700 square feet (250 m2) but going up to 15,000 square feet (1,400 m2), they will be priced from 1.8 to 15 million dollars.
The building will be over 700 feet (210 m) tall, and sit on just under one acre or 4000m² of land.
On February 2 2011 the site on which the building was to be erected was foreclosed on, in an auction on the Fulton County Courthouse steps.
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