AtlantaFan
02 Feb 2007, 01:52 PM
Not a whole lot new, but the group is still interested, and seems to have deep pockets.
Excerpts from a Jan 28 article in Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette:
Chris Schoen, co-founder and president of Barry Real Estate, and Atlanta attorney Jason Freier are among a group of investors that formed Hardball Capital to buy the Fort Wayne Wizards nearly a year ago.
Schoen and Freier also are trying to bring a major league soccer team to Atlanta.
While 10 other investors are involved – including four or five high-level Atlanta real estate executives, according to Freier – the face of Hardball Capital is Schoen and Freier, who met when Freier followed his fiancée to Atlanta to work for Schoen.
Allen Plaza, named after Atlanta’s civil rights-era Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., started with Barry’s plan for only one building, the granite and glass Southern Co. offices. Across the street to the northwest, the recently poured foundation for a 28-story luxury W Hotel sits next to the nearly completed 19-story Ernst & Young building. Across from that, to be erected by 2010, will be a 40- to 50-story office and retail building, the tallest downtown structure in a decade.
Within four years, the $2 billion Allen Plaza is planned to have five other buildings in adjacent blocks that would house offices, apartments, condos, retail outlets and another hotel, all built by Barry or in partnership with Atlanta apartment landlord Post Properties.
Helping spark this revival, across from the park, is the year-old, hugely popular Georgia Aquarium, billed as the world’s largest, and the new World of Coca-Cola, a museum under construction dedicated to the soft drink.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/16566663.htm
Excerpts from a Jan 28 article in Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette:
Chris Schoen, co-founder and president of Barry Real Estate, and Atlanta attorney Jason Freier are among a group of investors that formed Hardball Capital to buy the Fort Wayne Wizards nearly a year ago.
Schoen and Freier also are trying to bring a major league soccer team to Atlanta.
While 10 other investors are involved – including four or five high-level Atlanta real estate executives, according to Freier – the face of Hardball Capital is Schoen and Freier, who met when Freier followed his fiancée to Atlanta to work for Schoen.
Allen Plaza, named after Atlanta’s civil rights-era Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., started with Barry’s plan for only one building, the granite and glass Southern Co. offices. Across the street to the northwest, the recently poured foundation for a 28-story luxury W Hotel sits next to the nearly completed 19-story Ernst & Young building. Across from that, to be erected by 2010, will be a 40- to 50-story office and retail building, the tallest downtown structure in a decade.
Within four years, the $2 billion Allen Plaza is planned to have five other buildings in adjacent blocks that would house offices, apartments, condos, retail outlets and another hotel, all built by Barry or in partnership with Atlanta apartment landlord Post Properties.
Helping spark this revival, across from the park, is the year-old, hugely popular Georgia Aquarium, billed as the world’s largest, and the new World of Coca-Cola, a museum under construction dedicated to the soft drink.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/16566663.htm