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Eight galleries, a relocated music venue, a sculptor's studio, and a growing community of artists are transforming Underground Atlanta from a shuttered retail complex into a grassroots creative hub in the center of downtown.
PeopleForBikes named downtown's new Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Cycle Track one of the 20 best new U.S. bike lanes of 2023 — with plans to extend the protected path to Vine City, the BeltLine, and Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
The Hawks' downtown arena kept more than 3 million pounds of material out of landfills through recycling, composting and donations.
A year after groundbreaking, the first new building in CIM Group's $5 billion Gulch overhaul crested above street level in January 2024 — a milestone for a downtown site developers called "a hole in the heart of the city."
City filings pointed to a 13-story, 183-room Moxy by Marriott rising on Marietta Street near Centennial Olympic Park and Mercedes-Benz Stadium, timed to downtown's World Cup buildout.
While metro Atlanta office vacancy hit a record 28%, the 50-story 191 Peachtree tower signed six new downtown leases to start 2024 — bucking the trend its owners called a citywide "gloomy" office market.
South Downtown Atlanta's Hotel Row and Mitchell Street once thrived as a bustling gateway anchored by Terminal Station and a string of hotels serving arriving passengers. This retrospective traces the area's evolution from its early 1900s peak through decades of decline and recent redevelopment.
AJC business reporters preview the stories that will define Georgia's economy in 2024 — from interest rate impacts on Atlanta's glut of vacant office space, to housing affordability, to the tech ecosystem's continued momentum following big exits in 2023.
On December 19, 2023, David Cummings and Jon Birdsong announced Atlanta Ventures would take over South Downtown's stalled 53-parcel redevelopment — the deal that became downtownATL.com's origin story.
An investment group led by David Cummings and Jon Birdsong is acquiring Newport's South Downtown portfolio — 10 blocks of historic buildings and parking lots — to prevent foreclosure and build an entrepreneurial hub targeting 2026 World Cup milestones.
How Sweet Auburn's six-story John Lewis 'HERO' mural came together on Auburn Avenue, told by the people who made it.
In December 2023, Mayor Andre Dickens announced that Atlanta would not host the Peach Drop for New Year's Eve — continuing a pattern of cancellations that had disrupted the 34-year-old tradition more years than not since 2019.
The Peri Peri Grill, an African-Portuguese flame-grill concept, opens at 280 Luckie Street in downtown Atlanta.
MARTA's $206 million Five Points redevelopment cleared a key federal review in December 2023 — and early estimates already showed the station would need to close for over a year, the first hints of a closure that later made headlines.
The Glenn Building, home of the Glenn Hotel at 110 Marietta St NW in downtown Atlanta, reaches its 100th anniversary.
