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Atlanta Ventures has installed more than a dozen AI-powered cameras and license plate readers from Atlanta-based Flock Safety across its 10-block South Downtown portfolio, part of the infrastructure buildout accompanying the district's revival.
Scaffolding and demolition along Piedmont Avenue mark the start of Georgia's Capitol overhaul, including a new eight-story legislative office building and a fresh layer of gold on the 1889 dome.
Georgia-Pacific announced plans to convert its 52-story pink granite headquarters at 133 Peachtree Street into a mixed-use development with 400 apartments — reimagining Atlanta's sixth-tallest building for a post-pandemic office market.
Tyde Tate Kitchen, a family-owned fast-casual Thai comfort food restaurant, has opened at 229 Mitchell Street SW in Atlanta's South Downtown neighborhood. The restaurant is open daily from 11 AM to 9 PM and also offers catering services.
Since 1967, the Hyatt Regency Atlanta's blue dome has been a fixture of downtown's skyline. Inside, the Polaris revolving restaurant offers a 360-degree view that takes one hour to complete — along with rooftop beehives producing 600 pounds of honey a year.
Invest Atlanta's Urban Residential Finance Authority gave preliminary approval to finance a 163-unit mixed-income apartment tower at Underground Atlanta's historic Five Points location. The $40 million tax-exempt financing is a key step in a broader redevelopment plan that includes housing, retail, and public spaces.
Behind new scaffolding on Auburn Avenue, crews are preserving terra cotta medallions and cast grotesques as the Jacobean Revival landmark becomes housing and headquarters for nonprofit Georgia Works.
Delilah's Everyday Soul brings its first full-service restaurant to 227 Mitchell Street on Hotel Row in South Downtown.
In 2024 the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District and ATLDOT put three street redesigns in front of the public: a bus-and-bike Courtland Street, a two-way Ted Turner Drive, and a pedestrian-first streetscape for Peachtree Street SW in South Downtown.
The Salvation Army's 46,000-square-foot expansion at Marietta and Mills streets will double its downtown building, raising shelter beds from 321 to 437 and adding a workforce development center.
The site at Ted Turner Drive and Whitehall Street, where the 3.8-million-square-foot Forge Atlanta project fell into foreclosure, is listed at $86 per square foot in what sellers call downtown's Ring of Fire.
Atlanta Downtown Improvement District and ATLDOT are planning a pedestrian-oriented rebuild of Peachtree between Alabama Street and Trinity Avenue, trading two travel lanes for wider sidewalks and seating.
Plans filed for 524 West Peachtree St., where the 1920s Rosser Building was demolished six years ago, call for a hotel with 19 parking spaces and 45 bike spots after nearly a decade of failed proposals.
A development team filed plans for a data center at 10 Forsyth St., a block from Five Points, in the same week the Atlanta City Council voted to ban such facilities near MARTA stations and the BeltLine.
Flock Safety and Ring cameras deploy across South Downtown. ATV-Sylvan releases workspace designs with 34 companies already applying. An unhoused individual trespassing on a construction site is reunited with family. And the September Lot Party kicks off Falcons home opener.
