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Two of Atlanta's better-known chefs are putting a counter-service restaurant in South Downtown, while the pencil building lines up a slate of dining concepts and a private club for next year.
State planners want to know what a 2.5-hour train ride to Savannah is worth to metro Atlantans, as a $10-million study grinds toward a 2028 finish line.
A Dungeon Family visual artist filled two downtown rooms with paintings about grief and recovery, and one half of the pair is now a permanent free stop in The CTR's South Lobby.
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.
The 1901 Rufus M. Rose House at 537 Peachtree St. is listed at $2.58 million after a $250,000 structural repair push and four separate revival plans that never got off the ground.
Eight matches, 500,000 Fan Festival visitors and 24 miles of repaved road later, downtown's businesses came away with wildly uneven numbers and one open question.
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.
Red Bull's Formula 1 showcase took over several blocks of Hank Aaron Drive in Summerhill, drawing crowds to a corridor remade by new housing, retail and MARTA's first bus rapid transit line.
AC/DC brought a two-hour, 21-song set to Mercedes-Benz Stadium Thursday, and 71-year-old Angus Young's duck walks and fret work showed no sign of slowing down.
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.
On August 20, 2026, Gallery FC at The CTR hosted a free celebration for the more than 100 artists, assistants, producers, and partners who painted and installed the public art that greeted World Cup visitors across Atlanta.
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.
Errin Haines, who got her start covering Atlanta for the Associated Press, led the National Association of Black Journalists' 50th anniversary convention at the Marriott Marquis downtown — the group's first Atlanta return since 2005.
