Restoration Hardware hopes to begin construction of Buckhead store in June; open in summer of 2014

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Restoration Hardware hopes to begin demolition of the former ESPN Zonebuilding at 3030 Peachtree Road in May and begin construction of its six-story,open-atrium Buckhead sales store in June, according to members of the company’s development team.

The company would like to have the store ready for an opening in July or August of 2014.  
Steve Sebastian, who heads up store development for Restoration Hardware,and his development team returned for a second meeting with the DevelopmentReview Committee of SPI-9 (Special Public Interest District) on Feb. 6 to discusssome changes they had made in the original plans that the DRC had recommended.  

Restoration Hardware's head of store development Steve
Sebastian is shown describing the store design during the
first meeting with the SPI-9 DRC on Jan. 9. 

During the meeting Sebastian and development team was asked when theyhoped to begin work on the proposed building. The committee was told thecompany hopes to begin pulling permits from the city in April and then beginthe demolition process the following month.

Restoration Hardware actually filed a planning permit for the store with the city on Feb. 14.
Everything on the property will be torn down except for the parking deckat the back of the property, which will become part of the new store’soperations.
Although most of the DRC’s recommendations from its Jan. 9 meeting were addressed to thecommittee’s apparent satisfaction, committee members still were not happy withthe suggested remedy for the 9-foot wall across the front of the building onPeachtree Road, which does not provide the desired fenestration required in theSPI-9 design and development standards.

This photo is of the front of the new store in Scottsdale.
While the Scottsdale store is a 3-story building and the one
in Buckhead will be six stories, the architectural character
will be similar.  

Instead of creating window-like treatments in the wall to meet thefenestration requirements, Restoration Hardware’s California architect, JimGillam, proposed trees and other plantings in a park like setting in front ofthe wall to soften the appearance. He even suggested fountains could be added.

Committee member Sally Silver also suggested widening the front entranceoff of Peachtree and replacing the proposed wood doors with wrought Iron gatesto create greater fenestration and street appeal to the front of the six-storybuilding.
Restoration Hardware plans to use the open-air area between the wall andthe front of the building as a showroom area to display their outdoor furniture
In the end, the DRC members still expressed concerns about the wall andindicated they wanted the Restoration Hardware people to come back again with apossible further approach to creating more street appeal to the front of thebuilding.