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The Stitch Takes Shape: Developers Share Plans for an Amphitheater, School, and Skate Park Over the Downtown Connector

At an October 2024 update, The Stitch's development team revealed detailed plans for the 14-acre cap over I-75/85 — including an amphitheater, a skate park, a new school with Atlanta Public Schools, affordable housing, and construction beginning in 2026 after the World Cup.

Oct 24, 2024

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Atlanta City Council OK's $120M in bonds for downtown makeover

Atlanta City Council approved $120 million in infrastructure bonds to fund 25 miles of street resurfacing, new street lights, sidewalk repairs, and ADA improvements across downtown. The investment is timed to the 2026 FIFA World Cup but aimed at long-term revitalization.

Oct 22, 2024

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Trinity Central Flats Files for Permits Across From City Hall

Three years after the city picked a developer, the 10-story, 219-apartment affordable housing project at 104 Trinity Ave. has filed building permits, with 6,700 square feet of retail along Central Avenue.

Oct 14, 2024

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Waldo's Isn't Dead, Officials Say, After the Crane Comes Down in O4W

The crane over the stalled Old Fourth Ward project is being removed to control costs and is expected back in early 2025, as the team drops the office component and redesigns around a 170-key Motto by Hilton.

Oct 7, 2024

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Centennial Yards Switches a Housing Site to a Third Hotel on Elliott Street

A sliver of land at 88 Elliott St. that was filed as a five-story apartment building is now headed for a Special Use Permit as a 127-room hotel, the third in the Gulch pipeline.

Oct 7, 2024

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A 31-Townhome Project Is Full Speed Ahead on Linden Avenue in O4W

Site work is nearly finished at 404 Linden Ave. next to Central Park, with vertical construction due by year's end and three-bedroom homes expected to list from the high $700,000s.

Oct 1, 2024

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Sweet Auburn Grande Lands a $28.3M Loan and a November Groundbreaking

Invest Atlanta approved tax-exempt financing for the project's first phase: 109 apartments with 92 income-restricted, wrapped around the 1908 building that housed Georgia's first state-chartered Black bank.

Sep 26, 2024

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Atlanta City Studio Reopens on Hotel Row After Two Years Dark

The city's roving urban design studio takes its fourth home in The Sylvan Building on Mitchell Street, its first new location since 2022, next to Spiller Park Coffee in the heart of South Downtown.

Sep 23, 2024

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Centennial Yards Closes $575M in Bonds to Fuel the Gulch Buildout

A complex tax-increment-secured deal led by J.P. Morgan gives the 50-acre megaproject its largest financing yet, alongside updated plans for 2,600 homes, 3,000 hotel rooms, and a 2030 completion target.

Sep 23, 2024

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South Downtown's Owners Wire 10 Blocks With Flock Safety Camera Network

Atlanta Ventures has installed more than a dozen AI-powered cameras and license plate readers from Atlanta-based Flock Safety across its 10-block South Downtown portfolio, part of the infrastructure buildout accompanying the district's revival.

Sep 23, 2024

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A $392M Gold Dome Expansion Gets Underway Downtown

Scaffolding and demolition along Piedmont Avenue mark the start of Georgia's Capitol overhaul, including a new eight-story legislative office building and a fresh layer of gold on the 1889 dome.

Sep 20, 2024

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Georgia-Pacific Tower to Add 400 Apartments in Downtown Atlanta's Tallest Office-to-Residential Conversion

Georgia-Pacific announced plans to convert its 52-story pink granite headquarters at 133 Peachtree Street into a mixed-use development with 400 apartments — reimagining Atlanta's sixth-tallest building for a post-pandemic office market.

Sep 20, 2024

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City gives boost to Underground Atlanta apartment tower

Invest Atlanta's Urban Residential Finance Authority gave preliminary approval to finance a 163-unit mixed-income apartment tower at Underground Atlanta's historic Five Points location. The $40 million tax-exempt financing is a key step in a broader redevelopment plan that includes housing, retail, and public spaces.

Sep 19, 2024

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Sweet Auburn's 1912 Odd Fellows Building Enters a $13.3M Restoration

Behind new scaffolding on Auburn Avenue, crews are preserving terra cotta medallions and cast grotesques as the Jacobean Revival landmark becomes housing and headquarters for nonprofit Georgia Works.

Sep 18, 2024

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Three Downtown Streets Headed for Redesign: Courtland's Bus Lane, Ted Turner Drive Going Two-Way, and a Walkable Peachtree Street SW

In 2024 the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District and ATLDOT put three street redesigns in front of the public: a bus-and-bike Courtland Street, a two-way Ted Turner Drive, and a pedestrian-first streetscape for Peachtree Street SW in South Downtown.

Sep 11, 2024