Cox eyes Perimeter office tower

Atlanta Business Chronicle - by Douglas Sams Staff Writer

Cox Enterprises Inc. is proposing a 28-story office tower at its Lake Hearn campus near Perimeter Mall to park its rapidly growing AutoTrader unit.

Plans call for the 28-story tower, along with a future 20-story office building, a 350-room hotel and a nine-story parking garage that could be linked to the new fly-over bridge crossing Interstate 285, according to a member of the Ashford Alliance neighborhood group who was briefed by a Cox attorney at an April 29 presentation. The Ashford Alliance is a group of 75 neighborhoods in the Perimeter Mall area.

If built, the 28-story tower would be 750,000 square feet, making it the largest office tower developed in the Perimeter Mall area in years.

It would be comparable in square footage to Daniel Corp.'s 1075 Peachtree Street, a 39-story, 789,000-square-foot tower under construction in Midtown.