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Invest Atlanta approves $50K business grants and a $500K CAP-run microgrant fund to fill empty downtown Atlanta storefronts.
Glide Pizza plans a 50-seat pizzeria with a DJ booth at 191 Mitchell St. in South Downtown.
A church born in Summerhill marks 160 years with a history exhibit at the Auburn Avenue Research Library.
America's best soccer bar Brewhouse Cafe announces its second location in South Downtown. KMM & Co leather goods opens on Peachtree. Todd Ginsberg brings a breakfast counter. AdPipe relocates its HQ. Smorgasburg Atlanta launches October 18. And Lecrae, Killer Mike, and T.I. film a music video at Crates.
The Georgia World Congress Center Authority is weighing a low-rise retail hub atop International Plaza, the parking structure wedged between the convention center, Mercedes-Benz Stadium and State Farm Arena.
New York-based Shake Shack has signed a lease at Centennial Yards, the $5 billion mixed-use megaproject rising next to Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The restaurant could open in time for Atlanta's 2026 FIFA World Cup matches.
Video production software startup AdPipe has relocated from Athens to open a headquarters in South Downtown — at Atlanta Tech Village's Historic Hotel Row outpost — and announced a $12 million Series A round led by New York VC firm LGVP.
Atlanta's premier soccer bar, Brewhouse Cafe, is expanding to a second location in South Downtown on Broad Street, set to open in time for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The new 3,200-square-foot space will be about a 10-minute walk from Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
For one day in September, parking spaces in downtown Atlanta and Midtown were transformed into miniature parks with games, music, and a clothing swap — part of an international movement asking what cities could do with the land they give to parked cars.
The Love & Hip Hop star and Johnny's Chicken & Waffles owner brings Caribbean-American food and a late-night room to 255 Trinity Avenue.
A free weekly vinyasa yoga class on the central lawn of Woodruff Park in downtown Atlanta's Fairlie-Poplar district.
The 76-unit supportive housing building at 16 William Holmes Borders Senior Drive, originally a shoe factory, begins a renovation covering all residential rooms plus new HVAC, electrical and plumbing systems.
Architect Bushra Aumir has published a case study reimagining John Portman's glass-enclosed downtown skywalks as mixed-use nodes for cultural programming rather than private shortcuts above the sidewalk.
Wingate Capital Associates is planning City Lights South at 404 Boulevard NE, replacing low-rise structures with 159 multifamily units in the sixth phase of the decade-long Bedford Pines redevelopment.
Site work has started on a Georgia Power substation along Northside Drive across from the Georgia World Congress Center, and early renderings suggest a facade that borrows cues from Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
