Mandarin Oriental, Luxury hotel in Buckhead, Atlanta, US
The Waldorf Astoria Atlanta Buckhead is a 580-foot (177 m) tower of 42 floors built from 2006 to 2008, designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects with Milton Pate Architects as architect of record. A 127-room hotel occupies the lower half; above it are 45 residential units on 26 floors. In the English Gardens stand The Villas, three private residences with three floors of living space and underground garages.
Built from 2006 to 2008 at a cost of $197.4 million, the tower opened on May 1, 2008 as The Mansion on Peachtree, a Rosewood Hotel & Residence, with its grand opening on May 7. Sold in foreclosure to iStar Financial on February 3, 2010 for $66.1 million, it was renamed Mandarin Oriental, Atlanta in 2012. Xenia Hotels & Resorts bought it for $53.5 million on December 10, 2018, renaming it Waldorf Astoria Atlanta Buckhead.
The building opened in 2008 as The Mansion on Peachtree, a name recalled by the freestanding restaurant pavilion in front of the tower. That pavilion housed Craft Atlanta, a branch of Tom Colicchio's New York restaurant, from December 2008 until early 2010; Del Frisco's Grille took the space in late 2012 and is not part of the hotel.
The hotel occupies the lower half of the tower, with 127 rooms; the 45 residences rise above it on 26 floors. Craft Atlanta opened in December 2008 in a freestanding building in front of the tower and closed shortly before Valentine's Day 2010; Del Frisco's Grille took the space in late 2012 and is not part of the hotel.
The Villas are three separate private residences in the English Gardens, each with three floors of living space and its own private underground garage. They are distinct from the 45 residential units stacked on 26 floors above the 127-room hotel.
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