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Atlanta City Council approved $120 million in infrastructure bonds to fund 25 miles of street resurfacing, new street lights, sidewalk repairs, and ADA improvements across downtown. The investment is timed to the 2026 FIFA World Cup but aimed at long-term revitalization.
A weekly concert series featuring local performers takes over the lawn at Woodruff Park in Fairlie-Poplar.
On October 28, 1922, a Notre Dame lineman started praying on fourth down at Grant Field in Atlanta. When the play worked — twice — he said, "That Hail Mary is the best play we have." A century later, every desperate last-second throw in football carries the name that was born downtown.
On October 18, 2024, the Atlanta Municipal Market - the Sweet Auburn Curb Market - celebrated its centennial with remarks from Mayor Andre Dickens, free historical tours, and a full day of sampling from the merchants who have kept it running since 1924.
Three years after the city picked a developer, the 10-story, 219-apartment affordable housing project at 104 Trinity Ave. has filed building permits, with 6,700 square feet of retail along Central Avenue.
Interior demolition starts across six Phase One buildings. Delilah's Everyday Soul signs on Historic Hotel Row at 227 Mitchell. Spiller Park Coffee and Tyde Tate Kitchen are now open.
The crane over the stalled Old Fourth Ward project is being removed to control costs and is expected back in early 2025, as the team drops the office component and redesigns around a 170-key Motto by Hilton.
A sliver of land at 88 Elliott St. that was filed as a five-story apartment building is now headed for a Special Use Permit as a 127-room hotel, the third in the Gulch pipeline.
A year of free, rotating art installations comes to Woodruff Park this fall, starting with Taino Night Glow and Los Trompos.
Karen Houghton, a former Atlanta Ventures partner, has raised $2 million for Infinite Giving — a fintech platform helping nonprofits receive donations in cash, stocks, and cryptocurrency — in a round led by Atlanta Ventures and backed by Morgan Stanley.
Site work is nearly finished at 404 Linden Ave. next to Central Park, with vertical construction due by year's end and three-bedroom homes expected to list from the high $700,000s.
Sports Business Journal reports the NFL is expected to award the February 2028 game to Mercedes-Benz Stadium, landing it in a downtown that will have finished the World Cup and much of Centennial Yards.
Invest Atlanta approved tax-exempt financing for the project's first phase: 109 apartments with 92 income-restricted, wrapped around the 1908 building that housed Georgia's first state-chartered Black bank.
The city's roving urban design studio takes its fourth home in The Sylvan Building on Mitchell Street, its first new location since 2022, next to Spiller Park Coffee in the heart of South Downtown.
A complex tax-increment-secured deal led by J.P. Morgan gives the 50-acre megaproject its largest financing yet, alongside updated plans for 2,600 homes, 3,000 hotel rooms, and a 2030 completion target.
