
Nearby, the Braves Development Company in August unveiled plans for an Aloft hotel at The Battery. How the tower would peek over outfield walls.

Officials have said the complex could house some 900 full-time thyssenkrupp employees, lured in no small part by Cobb tax breaks and other incentives.Īs development goes, the groundbreaking marks another feather in the rapidly evolving Cumberland area’s cap.

The combined projects are expected to cost $200 million. Global architecture firm Gensler is behind the design.īeyond the tower, the project will include an adjacent, shorter building for thyssenkrupp’s business and engineering functions. The project site in relation to Cobb Galleria. For context, Sandy Springs’s “ King and Queen” towers at Concourse Corporate Center each stand about 100 feet higher, ranking them among the tallest suburban high-rises in the nation.Īccording to officials with Atlanta-based Collins Project Management, which is spearheading the tower’s development, the project will be thyssenkrupp’s most “high-profile” in the country.Ītop the vertical testing facility, three floors will be reserved for special functions, providing panoramic views of the city, officials revealed this week. Scheduled to open in 2021, the headquarters complex will be punctuated by a 420-foot elevator test tower that would be Cobb’s tallest building. One of suburban Atlanta’s most prominent towers is officially a go.įortune Global 500 company thyssenkrupp Elevator broke ground this week on its new North American headquarters next door to Cobb County’s burgeoning mixed-use hub The Battery, home of the Atlanta Braves’s stadium.
