A boutique hotel is poised to join South Downtown, a historic Atlanta enclave that is trying to recapture its past vibrancy. Hotel developer Thrash Group is converting a shuttered office building at 110 Mitchell St. into the 122-room Origin Hotel Atlanta. The hotel, which will sit near the Fulton County government complex, falls under the Wyndham Hotel & Resorts umbrella and is on track to open in summer 2024.
Mitchell Street is the main artery of the South Downtown neighborhood, which houses the largest collection of century-old brick and stone buildings in the city. Home to Atlanta's Hotel Row and several historic buildings, the area south of the Five Points MARTA station has been the focal point of multiple ambitious redevelopment plans.
Jon Birdsong and his co-investor David Cummings, the serial entrepreneurs behind Atlanta Ventures and the Atlanta Tech Village, recently acquired 53 buildings and several acres of parking lots across 10 blocks of South Downtown. Their plan to turn the area into a thriving hub for startups and entrepreneurs meshes well with the proposed boutique hotel.