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The Salvation Army's 46,000-square-foot expansion at Marietta and Mills streets will double its downtown building, raising shelter beds from 321 to 437 and adding a workforce development center.
The site at Ted Turner Drive and Whitehall Street, where the 3.8-million-square-foot Forge Atlanta project fell into foreclosure, is listed at $86 per square foot in what sellers call downtown's Ring of Fire.
Atlanta Downtown Improvement District and ATLDOT are planning a pedestrian-oriented rebuild of Peachtree between Alabama Street and Trinity Avenue, trading two travel lanes for wider sidewalks and seating.
Plans filed for 524 West Peachtree St., where the 1920s Rosser Building was demolished six years ago, call for a hotel with 19 parking spaces and 45 bike spots after nearly a decade of failed proposals.
A development team filed plans for a data center at 10 Forsyth St., a block from Five Points, in the same week the Atlanta City Council voted to ban such facilities near MARTA stations and the BeltLine.
Fulton County's development authority is set to issue tax-exempt bonds for a 426-unit workforce housing tower on Cone Street, while Stitch officials detail a 4.5-acre first phase capping the Connector.
The 19-story, 304-unit apartment building at Centennial Olympic Park Drive and MLK Jr. Drive has reached full height, with 16,000 square feet of retail at its base facing Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
CP Group has filed a Special Administrative Permit to begin remaking the 1.2-million-square-foot landmark into a hub of dining, retail, and media production, starting with new north and south entries.
A shovel-ready Residence Inn by Marriott site diagonal from downtown's signature park is designed, permitted, and flagged. The only missing piece is a company willing to build it before the World Cup.
The adaptive reuse of a 1950s office building at 166 Pryor St. into a 122-room boutique hotel is scheduling hard hat tours, with bookings opening in October and a Che Butter Jonez spinoff restaurant signed on.
Jon Birdsong and David Cummings paid $7.5 million to acquire the 37,000-square-foot building at 209 Mitchell Street — home to Friedman's Shoes since 1929 — adding the Atlanta institution's address to their growing South Downtown portfolio.
David Cummings and Jon Birdsong of Atlanta Ventures have acquired nearly all of Newport RE's historic South Downtown portfolio through seven deals with lenders. The tech entrepreneurs now control the eight-block district between Underground Atlanta, the State Capitol, and Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
The immersive-entertainment company has taken a long-term lease for a 70,000-square-foot, three-level venue between Mercedes-Benz Stadium and State Farm Arena, its first location east of Texas.
New City Properties' 16-story boutique hotel between the Eastside Trail and Historic Fourth Ward Park is now taking guests, with a Mediterranean restaurant, a lobby wine bar, and a members-only club to come.
Developers have until Aug. 2 to pitch a revival of the derelict Art Moderne landmark across from Five Points, with a facade fix and activated lower floors demanded before the 2026 World Cup arrives.
