Last summer, the Hines team received word that an unidentified customer was undertaking a multi-city search to find at least 200,000 square feet of office space. One of the places that attracted the prospective tenant was the West Midtown submarket in Atlanta, where the Hines Atlantic Yards project sits.
"Our focus in our response was on Atlantic Yards [in West Midtown] because, by the summer of last year, it was getting cranked up," says Hines' Senior Managing Director John Heagy.
The process played out through the second half of 2019, and the Hines' team played the parlor game of guessing who the bidder was.
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Leslie Shaver
Les Shaver has been covering commercial and residential real estate for almost 20 years. His work has appeared in Multifamily Executive, Builder, units, Arlington Magazine in addition to GlobeSt.com and Real Estate Forum.
