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At nearly 800,000 square feet, the 1975 landmark housing the IRS, immigration court and Social Security is the largest property on the federal chopping block.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act pulled back a 2024 federal grant. Stitch leadership says the highway-capping project is still happening.
Over 100 Verkada and Flock Safety cameras now monitor South Downtown 24/7. Origin Hotel opens with 120 rooms. The 85 Peachtree apartments show a 4.82% expected return — barely above a T-bill. And excavation on Broad Street uncovers a Civil War-era bullet.
The Georgia Trust called razing the 1926 substation short-sighted and avoidable. A petition to save it gathered 1,500 signatures.
Tarina Hodges' gourmet pop-up Pepper's Hotdogs settles into its first permanent home in downtown's Flatiron Building.
Centennial Yards' first ground-up building, 19 stories and 304 apartments, released pricing ahead of mid-September move-ins.
The 122-room Origin Hotel Atlanta opened in a 74-year-old brick building on Mitchell Street in South Downtown, along with its restaurant Social Capitol American Bistro. The week also brought Wine Spectator awards for nearly 60 Georgia restaurants and National Chicken Wing Day deals across Atlanta.
501 Edgewood would stack a timber-built, mixed-use expansion atop the decade-old coffeeshop, as a demonstration project for the Georgia Mass Timber Collective.
A documentary examines how Atlanta leveraged its civil rights heritage to win the 1996 Olympics — inviting IOC members to experience the city's history firsthand and proving that the values of the movement and the Games were inseparable.
The Origin Hotel Atlanta debuted in a converted 1950s office building a block south of Underground, after delays and the loss of its original restaurant.
Delronda Grant's bakery, named for her late mother, graduated from a twice-weekly table to a permanent stall on Edgewood Avenue.
Sweet Auburn's Historic District Development Corporation on resident co-development, gentrification and Henderson Place.
Three years after it was proposed, the Old Fourth Ward project between Highland Avenue and Freedom Parkway is seeking permits for three buildings and 12 townhomes.
Atlanta broke ground on improvements to the Jackson Street Bridge in July 2025, adding a protected bike lane and expanded pedestrian zone to the Old Fourth Ward span that has become one of the most photographed vantage points of the downtown skyline.
Eight years after the shelter closed, Emory filed for a permit to convert 477 and 489 Peachtree St. into housing for its healthcare employees.
