Zachary Hansen

Atlanta

Economic Development and Commercial Real Estate Reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Reporter covering economic development & commercial real estate for @ajc | UGA alum #GoDawgs | Also #Skol | Matthew 5:9 | Former: @business, @azcentral

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CP Group buys Atlanta's Piedmont Center office complex at auction

3 days ago | ajc.com | Zachary Hansen

Buckhead’s largest office complex was sold Tuesday at a steep discount through a foreclosure auction, joining a growing list of landmark Atlanta properties that are undergoing post-pandemic reckoning. Florida-based CP Group purchased the 2.2 million-square-foot Piedmont Center in an all-cash transaction, according to a news release.
Building a new data center in Atlanta just became more difficult

3 days ago | ajc.com | Zachary Hansen

It is about to get harder to build a new data center in Atlanta. The City Council on Monday unanimously approved an ordinance that requires all new data center proposals to obtain a special-use permit before proceeding, adding another layer of government approval and scrutiny on the fast-growing sector. The legislation also prohibits new computer server farms in a handful of neighborhoods, including Little Five Points and the East Atlanta Village.
Amazon to hire 1,000 workers at new Georgia sorting center

4 days ago | ajc.com | Zachary Hansen

The world’s largest e-commerce company announced Monday it plans to open a new package sorting center about an hour southwest of downtown Atlanta. Amazon will build a new 1.6 million-square-foot facility in Hogansville, a small city of about 3,200 residents in Troup County. The sorting center, which will be Amazon’s third in Georgia, will employ more than 1,000 full- and part-time employees when it opens in 2027, the company said in a news release.
Large data center pitched for former Fort Gillem base south of Atlanta

5 days ago | flipboard.com | Zachary Hansen

5 hours agoThe aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame. Sparks flew, a wing bent, and the landing gear snapped off as the silver Lockheed Electra 10-E plane smashed into the runway at Luke Field, outside Honolulu. The pilot’s only stroke of …
Large data center pitched for site of shuttered Forest Park Army depot

5 days ago | ajc.com | Zachary Hansen

From protecting military equipment to protecting our digital lives, the former Fort Gillem Army depot south of Atlanta could soon enlist a large data center. Digital Realty is proposing a 1.9 million-square-foot data center campus on a 97-acre slice of the former Fort Gillem property in Forest Park, according to a Development of Regional Impact filing.
Porsche's Atlanta experience center reshaped Southside over 10 years

1 week ago | ajc.com | Zachary Hansen

For roughly 60 years, the drone of airplanes near the world’s busiest airport was countered by the sounds of automobiles coming off assembly lines. But in 2006, the factory lines at Ford Motor Co.’s plant near Hapeville went quiet. Alan Hallman, the city’s mayor since 2003, called the factory’s shuttering “an economically devastating event,” leaving jet engines as the predominate sound of Atlanta’s Southside. Today, plane noises again have competition — this time, it’s squealing tires.
I drove Porsche’s Atlanta test track. What I found was redemption

1 week ago | ajc.com | Zachary Hansen

I still remember the deep bruising across my lap where a seat belt stopped me from being thrown out of my hydroplaning car into the sopping brush off I-85. Seven years ago, I was driving from my hometown, Cataula, near Columbus, to start my first postgraduate job at this very news organization. Young and overconfident, I disregarded the pouring rain, set my cruise control and quickly learned I was unprepared for the consequences. Those included a totaled car and a wounded ego.
Atlanta tech ‘unicorn’ OneTrust opens high-end HQ along Beltline

1 week ago | ajc.com | Zachary Hansen

Paint is not permanent enough for Kabir Barday. He wanted his company’s commitment to Atlanta to cut beneath the surface. “We etched our name in stone,” Barday, CEO and cofounder of OneTrust, said of his company’s logo emblazoned on a wall within its luxe new Atlanta headquarters. “That’s permanence and confidence.”OneTrust, a homegrown tech company focused on data security and privacy, opened its 74,000-square-foot headquarters along the bustling Beltline Eastside trail Friday.
Coming to streets near you: Hyundai’s made-in-Georgia, all-electric SUV

2 weeks ago | detroitnews.com | Adam Van Brimmer |Zachary Hansen

AUTOSAdam Van Brimmer and Zachary HansenAtlanta Journal-ConstitutionView Comments Savannah, Georgia ― The day Hyundai broke ground on its Georgia electric vehicle factory in fall 2022, the automaker also staged the car equivalent of a fashion show at this city’s Enmarket Arena. Hyundai had yet to announce what models it would build at what would become the Metaplant, so locals flocked to the open house in search of hints.
Prologis to buy $17B data center site called ‘Project Sail’ south of Atlanta

2 weeks ago | ajc.com | Zachary Hansen

A California industrial giant is under contract to buy property where a $17 billion data center campus has been proposed south of Atlanta. Prologis officials confirmed to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the San Francisco-based company plans to acquire the roughly 831-acre project site in Coweta County, roughly 45 miles southwest of downtown Atlanta.