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Flatiron Renovation to Add to Downtown Revival
The Downtown Atlanta submarket seems to be making a comeback, and the recently announced renovation and repurposing of the Flatiron building, the city’s oldest skyscraper, promises to accelerate the...
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Will the Falcons Stadium Bring New Life to Downtown’s West Side?
Big new stadiums often come with big promises to revitalize the areas surrounding the stadium site. The new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons, slated to open in 2017, is no exception. The website...
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Falcons Stadium May Be Long-Awaited Boon for Beleaguered Westside
A recent meeting of CREW Atlanta provided attendees with an update on how Atlanta’s Westside communities will benefit from the planned new Falcons Stadium in their area. Some community members have...
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Development Within West Midtown Heating Up
The West Midtown submarket—sometimes referred to as Atlanta’s Westside—has gotten hotter and hotter over the past few years, and it’s showing no sign of cooling off. A number of significant projects...
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GWCCA Proposes a Makeover to Centennial Park
In a sign of how far Downtown Atlanta has come since the 1996 Summer Olympics, the Georgia World Congress Center Authority (GWCCA) is proposing a major overhaul of Centennial Olympic Park. The $46.5...
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Buckhead Atlanta Delivers On Its Promise
As the densely packed area around Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza grows ever denser, project activity is booming in a once-quieter part of Buckhead: the Buckhead Village. OliverMcMillan’s $1 billion...
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Millennials Love Midtown, but Will They Stay?
When A.J. Robinson, the president of Central Atlanta Progress, cut the ribbon on the Atlanta Streetcar in December 2014, he bluntly stated that the transit project was built not for the elder statesmen...
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Move Over, Midtown: Buckhead Is Becoming a Tech Mecca
Millennials are flocking to Midtown, and major tech companies like Worldpay and NCR are following suit. But Buckhead – thanks in large part to increasing walkability and the Atlanta Tech Village – is...
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Sandy Springs’ Goals for Its City Center Are in Reach
The Sandy Springs City Center – covered in this blog last year – is set to kick into gear this summer. Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul has stated that he hopes the project will break ground in July or...
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A Reinvented Underground Atlanta, Again
Atlanta icon-turned-eyesore Underground Atlanta is about to undergo another reinvention. Will the third time be the charm? T. Scott Smith, president and CEO of WRS, Inc., a South Carolina-based...
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Buckhead CID Calls for a Pause in Park Plans
Since April, the Buckhead Community Improvement District (BCID) has been abuzz with preliminary plans to build a nine-acre park that would sit above GA 400 and the MARTA rail line—thus creating a park...
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Atlanta’s New Energy Benchmarking Requirement Goes into Effect
The Atlanta City Council has decided to take a page from the play book of other major cities and implement energy efficiency measures affecting large buildings and their owners. Starting July 20, all...
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Braves Update: Multi-Use Development Taking Shape
The Atlanta Braves stadium project has been a hotbed of activity over the past month, with several new developments in the ongoing effort to build the facilities needed to support the team’s move to...
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Alpharetta Named Top Small City for Business Start-Ups
Alpharetta is the place to be these days—especially if you’re starting a business. In July, personal finance website NerdWallet published a study naming Alpharetta as America’s top small city for...
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The State of Commercial Real Estate in Atlanta
Earlier in August, the Atlanta Commercial Board featured a panel discussion on the State of Commercial Real Estate in Atlanta. The panelists included Bubba Chrismer, Managing Principal at Cresa...
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An Update on Transportation at the CoreNet Education Forum
At the CoreNet Education Forum on August 20, three speakers – State Senator Brandon Beach (R-21); Keith Parker, General Manager/CEO of MARTA; and Chris Tomlinson, Executive Director of the Georgia...
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Finally: A Break for Georgia’s Brewers
This summer, Georgia’s craft beer industry finally got a break. The state legislature passed what brewers refer to as the “Beer Jobs Bill,” which allows breweries to give visitors beer to take home...
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Armour Yards Brings West Coast Style to Atlanta’s Office Market
A new development by real estate developer Third & Urban is taking the live-work-play environment to a whole new level. The $70 million Armour Yards office project, which broke ground last month,...
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Big Changes in Store for Gwinnett Place
Once the center of Gwinnett County’s retail market, the Gwinnett Place mall and its surrounding area have fallen on hard times due to the real estate downturn and the emergence of competing malls. But...
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The Central Perimeter May See Relief from Congestion—Eventually
As Atlanta’s hottest office submarket, the Dunwoody/Central Perimeter area has long grappled with crippling traffic. Now that the recession is over, the city is ready to do something about it. Dunwoody...
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