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Construction, openings, investment, and physical transformation of Atlanta's city center.
A three-unit brick and terracotta building from the 1920s, sitting on a triangular lot half a mile from Ponce City Market, is on the market with no rezoning contingencies allowed.
Six of the 26 units inside the 1899 Bass Dry Goods Building have leased in the first month, capping a $25 million conversion of South Downtown's oldest retail landmark.
John Dewberry now owns Midtown's skeletal Campanile tower free of debt, a twice-monthly farmers market launches at Terminal South, and a Reynoldstown karaoke plan draws preservationist pushback.
A pair of tenth-acre parcels on Rhodes Street, walking distance from The Benz and the Vine City MARTA station, are asking $155,000 apiece with construction plans included.
Six months after unveiling a $200 million consolidated campus on 15.5 acres beside the Westside Trail, Atlanta Mission has walked away from the contract and is looking elsewhere in the city.
Owner CP Group has hired New York-based Episcope Hospitality to run three new concepts at 600 Peachtree Street NE, including a 37th-floor tenant club opening by year's end.
Downtown's Tabernacle is now officially "the Tabernacle presented by iThink Financial" — a Florida credit union's first Georgia naming-rights deal, timed to the venue's 30th anniversary as a concert hall.
South Broad Suites opened spec offices at ATV Sylvan, and Brown Toy Box celebrated its grand opening at 211 Mitchell St SW.
The Downtown Atlanta Infrastructure Improvement Project resurfaced roughly 27 centerline miles of streets, rebuilt sidewalks and ADA ramps, and rolled out new lighting and wayfinding - one corridor at a time from late 2024 through the summer of 2026.
Mayor Andre Dickens withdrew the city's $80 million offer to sell the Atlanta City Detention Center after Fulton County commissioners voted against extending six downtown-area tax districts he wanted to fund neighborhood reinvestment.
From Spanish fans marching out of South Downtown to a 14-foot LED sphere at Hartsfield-Jackson, years of tournament prep showed up exactly where it was supposed to.
Half a million fans packed Centennial Olympic Park for the Fan Fest — now Atlanta's tourism leaders are racing to convert one spectacular month into a five-year pipeline.
The trophy is still up for grabs, but after eight matches the hometown winners are already clear — the stadium, MARTA, downtown's mega-projects and the brand of Atlanta itself.
Thirty vendors in the city-backed Welcome to ATL activation are seeking refunds after sales came in thousands of dollars short of projections at booths near the stadium.
A 12-story building with roughly 280 apartments — including affordable units — and space for about 17 shops is next in line at Centennial Yards, aimed squarely at downtown's "Tuesday afternoon problem."
