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The chevron-topped former Centennial Tower changes hands in a $49.5M deal, Real Capital's first downtown Atlanta office buy.
More than 3,000 Atlanta residents born in the Democratic Republic of Congo are marking the country's first World Cup appearance since 1974 — with the Fan Festival at Centennial Olympic Park serving as home base for a community that waited two generations for this moment.
Artist Karen Anderson Singer has installed four miniature sculptures across South Downtown for the FIFA World Cup — the first time Tiny Doors ATL has revealed four pieces simultaneously — at Founders Green, Mitchell Street, Underground Atlanta, and the Flatiron Building.
Underground Atlanta turned Upper Alabama into a Moroccan celebration hub with red-carpet decor and an influencer zone.
Beehives, an urban garden and the busiest turnstiles in North America — the stadium's stranger statistics.
The Michelin-recommended Poncey-Highland chef adds a fast-casual chicken concept to the reborn CNN Center food hall while opening a new cocktail patio in his home neighborhood.
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights added a permanent children's gallery in April 2026 and a yearlong soccer-and-human-rights exhibition in June, timed to Atlanta's World Cup summer.
The three-block Broad Street overhaul now spills into a remade elevated plaza at Garnett MARTA station, one stop south of the Five Points hub.
The first FIFA World Cup match ever played in Atlanta produced the tournament's first upset: a scoreless draw that felt like a win for the third-smallest nation ever to reach the World Cup.
The Neapolitan pizzeria will bring its 900-degree wood-fired ovens to the Entertainment District at Centennial Yards in 2028, joining The Irish Exit, Chops Lobster Bar, and The Busy Bee.
Site work is well underway on the 3.3-acre Bowery at Old Fourth Ward, a Fuqua Development and Northwood Ravin project bringing 285 homes and 12,000 square feet of retail to Boulevard and Highland Avenue.
A metro Atlanta dining guide keyed to eight nations playing in the 2026 FIFA World Cup — Czech beers in Summerhill, Basque pintxos in Old Fourth Ward, jollof rice on the West End.
The restored 1920s Regenstein's Department Store reopens as a six-concept vertical entertainment district, with dive bar American Dive and upscale Peachtree Sporting Club leading the June 17 debut.
A car-free, quarter-mile stretch of Walton Street fills with 20 to 30 food trucks from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on every World Cup match day, one block from the FIFA Fan Festival.
Dough in the Box, El Tesoro, CTR Food Works, a Highland Bakery pop-up and more flipped on their lights across downtown and South Downtown in the days before World Cup kickoff.
