About 100 Georgia Power employees work on the site, which is used as a marshaling yard and operations center for power crews. If Georgia Power sells the site, those jobs would be relocated to other operations stations, West said, until a replacement facility is identified.

“We constantly evaluate our properties and a sale of the 760 Ralph McGill facility could address the changing dynamics of the area, including residential redevelopment,” West said in the statement. Georgia Power has had to contend with “increased traffic and reduced access to the facility for our crews due to remodeling of the surrounding businesses.”

In the past several years, a number of apartment projects have been built or have been proposed in the immediate area, including Anthem, Inman Quarter and a redevelopment of the former Masquerade nightclub into luxury apartments.

Meanwhile, developer New City is in the process developing an office tower atop a new Kroger store next to Ponce City Market.

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