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The Georgia World Congress Center Authority is weighing a low-rise retail hub atop International Plaza, the parking structure wedged between the convention center, Mercedes-Benz Stadium and State Farm Arena.
Video production software startup AdPipe has relocated from Athens to open a headquarters in South Downtown — at Atlanta Tech Village's Historic Hotel Row outpost — and announced a $12 million Series A round led by New York VC firm LGVP.
The 76-unit supportive housing building at 16 William Holmes Borders Senior Drive, originally a shoe factory, begins a renovation covering all residential rooms plus new HVAC, electrical and plumbing systems.
Architect Bushra Aumir has published a case study reimagining John Portman's glass-enclosed downtown skywalks as mixed-use nodes for cultural programming rather than private shortcuts above the sidewalk.
Wingate Capital Associates is planning City Lights South at 404 Boulevard NE, replacing low-rise structures with 159 multifamily units in the sixth phase of the decade-long Bedford Pines redevelopment.
Site work has started on a Georgia Power substation along Northside Drive across from the Georgia World Congress Center, and early renderings suggest a facade that borrows cues from Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Atlanta officials are pushing plans for a new downtown Amtrak station, hoping to deliver a regional rail hub as the city studies potential sites between North Avenue and Memorial Drive.
A 19-story luxury apartment tower called the Mitchell has opened as Centennial Yards' first newly constructed building, marking a milestone in the $5 billion redevelopment of Atlanta's Gulch. The grand opening ceremony drew city leaders to celebrate what some feared would never happen.
PacificPoint Realty's Towns at O4W replaces older houses and a vacant lot at 404 Linden Ave., a block south of North Avenue near Central Park.
RBH Group says the 30-plus-story building near Centennial Olympic Park will finally start, four years after designs first emerged.
At nearly 800,000 square feet, the 1975 landmark housing the IRS, immigration court and Social Security is the largest property on the federal chopping block.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act pulled back a 2024 federal grant. Stitch leadership says the highway-capping project is still happening.
Centennial Yards' first ground-up building, 19 stories and 304 apartments, released pricing ahead of mid-September move-ins.
501 Edgewood would stack a timber-built, mixed-use expansion atop the decade-old coffeeshop, as a demonstration project for the Georgia Mass Timber Collective.
The Origin Hotel Atlanta debuted in a converted 1950s office building a block south of Underground, after delays and the loss of its original restaurant.
