Notes from the project
Longer pieces about how this building works, why it's here, and what we've had to decide along the way. Written by the people doing the work.
Published by theEdge, the applicant in Case Z2026-12. This is our account of our own project — not reporting, and not independent.
What adaptive reuse actually means for a forty-year-old building
The cheapest, quietest thing you can do with a warehouse is not knock it down.
Air-cooled or evaporative: the choice, and what it costs us
One of these uses millions of gallons and runs cheaper. We took the other one.
What it means to plug into a utility the city owns
In most places, a new industrial customer is good news for shareholders somewhere else. Marietta isn't most places.
Why this building forgets everything it does
Inference and training are different jobs. Only one of them keeps anything, and it isn't the one happening here.
Who actually builds a project like this
150 to 250 people, most of them from within an hour's drive, doing trades that don't get talked about much.
The case for small facilities close to where they're used
Distance costs time. For some things — a scan, a fraud check, a dispatch — the time is the whole point.
What a zoning condition is, and why we asked for ten
A promise on a website can be quietly dropped. A condition attached to an approval can't.
Something here you'd want to check?
Every figure in these pieces traces to the application on file with the City. If one doesn't, tell us and we'll correct it.