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Barking Hound Village is building a 9,000-square-foot facility with fig-ivy walls and dog murals on a graffiti-covered Boulevard corner Starbucks abandoned plans for in 2021.
After a construction phase that stretched across several years, the $26 million 555 Boulevard apartments began welcoming residents in 2024 -- 106 units on a corner vacant for more than a decade.
A $2.5 million grant from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation is funding new lighting, water, and fog systems for Centennial Olympic Park's most photographed landmark -- work set to run August through December 2024.
The Dream relocated two home games against Caitlin Clark's Indiana Fever from their 3,500-seat arena to the 17,000-seat State Farm Arena in downtown Atlanta, aiming to shatter the franchise attendance record and meet demand that "far outpaces the supply."
Fulton County's most valuable art holding -- 54 concrete columns installed by artist Sol LeWitt in 1999 -- finally got the park to match, plus a second new pocket park nearby on Highland Avenue.
Regents approve a 1,000-seat Georgia State baseball stadium on Pollard Boulevard at the Downtown Atlanta campus.
Local bakery and chocolate maker Flaky Not Flaky is taking a food court space at Truist Plaza on Peachtree Street.
A 50-unit affordable housing project called Lewis Crossing is set to fill a long-vacant gravel lot a block south of Mercedes-Benz Stadium -- with construction starting in 2025 and a Walk Score of 88.
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park has rebranded following CNN's departure, dropping "CNN" from its name and completing $15 million in renovations across approximately 600 guest rooms and suites in its North Tower.
A new master plan -- the Georgia World Congress Center Authority's first since 2008 -- pinpointed four sites that could add $1.1 to $1.3 billion in hotels, housing, offices, and retail to the underused blocks around the convention campus.
David Cummings — who sold Pardot to Salesforce for $95 million and built Atlanta Tech Village into a 300-member startup hub — sits down with the AJC to discuss his vision for transforming 53 buildings across 10 blocks of South Downtown.
The Origin Hotel Atlanta, turning a 1950s office building near Underground Atlanta into a 121-room boutique property, hit construction hurdles in 2024 -- but its restaurant partner confirmed the project was back on track for a summer opening.
Atlanta coffee shop Spiller Park has opened its fourth location at 233 Mitchell Street in Historic Hotel Row, preserving the building's original tiled floors and wall castings while offering espresso, seasonal drinks, and sidewalk seating in South Downtown.
Tech investors Jon Birdsong and David Cummings envision transforming South Downtown into "Startup City," with a new co-working space hosting 50 entrepreneurs and plans to convert the 115-year-old Sylvan Hotel into a formal incubator, while new restaurants like Tyde Tate Kitchen and Spiller Park have already opened.
Jon Birdsong and David Cummings, the entrepreneurs behind Atlanta Ventures, acquired 53 historic buildings and acres of parking lots across 10 blocks of South Downtown with a bold vision: transform the area once known as "Hotel Row" back into the entrepreneurial capital of the Southeast.
