Atlanta's tallest building for a quarter-century is lining up to become apartments. Plans filed April 21 with the city's Department of City Planning outline a phased residential conversion of the 1929 Rhodes-Haverty Building at 134 Peachtree St., the 21-story tower that has operated as a Residence Inn by Marriott since the 1990s.
Phase one covers floors three through 20, producing 160 apartments with no changes to the building's exterior or height. Eight accessible units with roll-in showers would be distributed across floors three through 10. The filings describe limited interior unit renovations and call for keeping existing infrastructure - plumbing, life-safety systems - largely in place, which is precisely what makes hotel-to-apartment conversions cheaper than office-to-apartment ones.
The location is about as central as downtown gets: just north of Woodruff Park, fronting the Atlanta Streetcar line, less than a block from an entrance to MARTA's Peachtree Center station.
City filings list the property owner as Grand Prix Atlanta, an LLC based in Irving, Texas. Atlanta planning and architecture firm TSW is also named. Questions about timeline and further details had not been answered as of the source report.
The building itself is a genuine landmark. Designed by Pringle & Smith and completed in 1929, it held the title of Atlanta's tallest for 25 years, and it still contains restored original lobby murals by artist Athos Menaboni. A City of Atlanta summary notes that "not only the height of the building, but its siting contributes to its visual prominence" - it fronts three streets. The tower was renovated in 2015 and has continued operating as a hotel, with rates starting around $156 a night for a queen suite.
There is a small irony in the filing. A separate, ground-up Residence Inn by Marriott has been in planning for years on a vacant corner across from Centennial Olympic Park, where revised plans call for 188 rooms in a 14-story building. It has yet to break ground.
The conversion would also join a much larger one directly across the street. The 51-story Georgia-Pacific Center is planned for more than 400 apartments and 80,000 square feet of retail in its first phase alone, along with a landscaped, MARTA-connected plaza of roughly an acre facing Peachtree Street.
Original reporting by Josh Green for Urbanize Atlanta, published April 2026.
