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AJC.com, Atlanta Kroger redevelopment may get tax break

The city of Atlanta’s economic development agency will consider a tax break this week for the redevelopment of the Ponce de Leon Avenue grocery store known as “Murder Kroger” near the eastside Beltline trail, according to a meeting notice. Developer New City plans an office tower over a new 60,000-square-foot Kroger store at 725 Ponce […]

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Fox 5 News, “Massive ‘Beltline Kroger’ Overhaul Announced”

ATLANTA – Plans have been announced for the redevelopment of the “Beltline” Kroger facility which will include a new 60,000 square-foot Kroger grocery store which will sit below 360,000 square-feet of office space. In a press release Friday, developers said the project will be called 725 Ponce and is slated to be a mixed-use development […]

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Curbed, “’Beltline’ Kroger on Ponce Set for Dramatic Overhaul”

The death knell is tolling for the infamous Kroger on Ponce de Leon Avenue adjacent to the Atlanta Beltline. In November, we caught wind of a major redo planned for the 1980s suburban-style grocery facility, but both Kroger and Ponce City Market were tight-lipped (while not denying that something was afoot). Today the cloak has […]

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Decaturish, “’Murder Kroger’ will be turned into mixed-use development”

Atlanta’s “Beltline Kroger” – often referred to by its more infamous moniker, “Murder Kroger” – will soon become part of a major mixed-use development. Kroger and a company called New City LLC announced Friday that the store will become “an Urban-Prototype Kroger and New Class-A Loft Office Building with Direct Beltline Access.” It will be […]

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Atlanta INtown, “’BeltLine’ Kroger on Ponce set for big redevelopment”

Whether you call it “Murder Kroger” or “BeltLine Kroger,” you’ll soon be calling it dust as the Ponce de Leon Avenue supermarket is demolished to make room for a new mixed-used development. Kroger’s Atlanta Division and New City, LLC, announced today plans to develop 725 Ponce, a mixed-use development on the Atlanta BeltLine, adjacent to […]

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