The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Stay a day — or a year — at this new 21- story tower
Near Ponce City Market, high- rise is set to open this year, will have 405 rooms.
Flexibility is at the core of a new highrise slated to open this year near Ponce City Market.
Jamestown, the developer behind the popular Beltline Eastside Trail attraction, announced new details this week on its forthcoming “hospitality living tower,” a key part of Ponce City Market’s ongoing expansion. The 21- story building called Scout Living is the company’s first foray into flexible rentals, allowing tenants to select short stays like a hotel or longer leases like an extended stay.
The company said visitors will be able to rent one of the tower’s 405 rooms for only one night or for up to a year. The novel idea is a proof of concept for Jamestown, aiming to attract a variety of niche audiences by providing hotellike amenities in a desirable part of town for tourists, transplants and workers.
“Designed to meet that evolution and serve a broad range of lifestyles, Scout Living can be a starter residence for someone new to a city or home base for someone living and working across multiple cities,” Michael Phillips, president of Jamestown, said in a news release.
Scout Living consists of one- and two- bedroom units, all of which are fully furnished. Rooms feature full kitchens stocked with cooking essentials, dishwashers and washer- dryer combos. The building’s rooftop will include a pool, wellness studio and terrace, while the tower’s amenity floor will offffffer a lounge alongside meeting and event spaces.
The ground floor will include 12,000 square feet of retail space. Jamestown hasn’t announced retail tenants yet, but it is targeting a food and beverage concept as well as a grab- and- go convenience store.
Ponce City Market, a converted former Sears warehouse along Ponce de Leon Avenue in Old Fourth Ward, has become a defining project along the Beltline, helping spur hundreds of millions of dollars in development along the Eastside Trail. Scout Living is part of the project’s second development phase, which includes a four- story mass timber loft office building named 619 Ponce and a 163- unit apartment building called Signal House for residents 55 and older.