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Photos: First segment of Atlanta's Silver Comet Connector has arrived Josh Green Fri, 03/21/2025 - 16:00 Need proof the long-planned branch of trails in Atlanta to the famed Silver Comet Trail is starting to become real? Look no further.

After years of discussions and planning, Atlanta’s trek toward the expansive Silver Comet recently marked a key milestone with the debut of the Woodall Creek Trail. The .7-mile segment helps weave together growing neighborhoods Blandtown, Underwood Hills, and other areas. 

The trail project, which broke ground in February last year, marks the first segment of what’s called the Silver Comet Connector. That multi-use link will extend from Atlanta’s postindustrial Upper Westside district toward Cobb County and the 61.5-mile Silver Comet’s Georgia component—and off to Alabama towns beyond that.  

The Woodall Rail Trail follows Woodall Creek, a tributary to Peachtree Creek, through 10 acres of preserved forest in a part of town exploding with residential development. Also on the route are Bacchanalia restaurant, Topgolf Atlanta, colorful murals, towering trees, and a functional bioswale, among other elements.

Tight switchback with an Upper Westside Community District mural. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

At its southernmost point, the Woodall Rail Trail begins at a future connection with the Beltline’s Northwest Trail (expected open this fall), where Ellsworth Industrial Boulevard meets Elaine Avenue. From there, it wends north to the intersection of Chattahoochee Avenue and Chattahoochee Row at The Works, an adaptive-reuse shopping, food, and nightlife destination in Underwood Hills.

Led by the PATH Foundation, the project’s goal was to help preserve the forest and install a safe passage for walking and biking in a part of Atlanta known for lacking sidewalks and parks. 

Courtesy of PATH Foundation/Upper Westside CID

Atlanta developer Selig Enterprises, which owns The Works, installed a crosswalk and traffic signal intended to keep trail users safer as they cross Chattahoochee Avenue toward the mixed-use district, and vice versa. Selig is also working with PATH Foundation and Upper Westside CID officials to bring the next Silver Comet Connector section through properties around The Works that front Chattahoochee Avenue along Woodall Creek. 

Swing up to the gallery to see how the first Connector section came together—no pedaling required. (Spoiler: It must might look better than renderings suggested.) 

Courtesy of PATH Foundation/Upper Westside CID

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Where the southern entry of the .7-mile Woodall Rail Trail begins today along Ellsworth Industrial Boulevard—just feet from under-construction Beltline trail. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Decorative, rail-heavy trail signage. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Heading north on the pathway along Ellsworth Industrial. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

A bend in the trail with views of Michelin-starred Atlanta dining staple Bacchanalia. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

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Here we twist north on the Woodall Rail Trail on sections of abandoned rail spurs between warehouses, offices, and woods. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Volunteer work helped clear this section of invasive species, allowing for pathway construction. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

View to serene woods around Woodall Creek beside the new trail. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

The trail's bioswale section designed to capture and help clean runoff water from nearby streets before it enters the creek. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Tight switchback with an Upper Westside Community District mural. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Heading northwest toward the trail's final stretch. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

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Slight uphill en route to Chattahoochee Avenue. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Another eye-catching entry arc marks Woodall Rail Trail's northern terminus today at Chattahoochee Avenue. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Main entry to The Works live-work-play district, through which the Silver Comet Connector's next phase will weave. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Subtitle Woodall Rail Trail—part of future link from ATL to Alabama—just might be prettier than its renderings

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Interlock ATL district announces wave of tenant signings Josh Green Fri, 03/21/2025 - 14:03 Much has been written lately about business closures in West Midtown, particularly along the Howell Mill Road corridor (RIP, West Egg, and more than a dozen other restaurants in the area). Traffic, lack of parking, expensive parking, lackluster connectivity and transit options, and prohibitively pricey food and drink have all been cited as root causes. 

But with the exception of pizza joint Humble Pie and Pour Taproom, The Interlock ATL district has been largely immune to the downturn. 

The Interlock’s owner, Armada Hoffler, has announced a wave of tenant signings that signal continued high demand to be in the area—and specifically at “West Midtown’s premier mixed-use destination,” per company officials.

Three new office leases totaling about 20,000 square feet have been signed despite broader headwinds in the office market. Those leases will backfill nearly all of the space left vacant in the wake of coworking hub WeWork’s departure, according to district officials. 

Joining The Interlock are private equity firm Directional Capital, digital marketing firm Look Listen, and law firm Levy, Sibley, Foreman & Speir. They’ll be bringing “a diverse array of industries [and] a dynamic range of talent to the building,” per Armada Hoffler reps. 

Atlanta-based integrated marketing agency Alloy also recently expanded its headquarters by 158 percent at the 9-acre district with custom office space.

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That activity comes after Atlanta-based, national networking and events hub The Gathering Spot announced last month it will lease building’s entire 38,000-square-foot rooftop and 20,000 square feet of offices at The Interlock. 

The swanky rooftop zone, formerly home to L.O.A., is expected to be revived as a private membership club called Retreat at The Gathering Spot by this summer. 

Another (and potentially more fun) addition to The Interlock will be the sixth U.S. location of F1 Arcade, an upscale social gaming concept billed as the world’s first Formula1® hospitality brand. 

F1 Arcade at The Interlock will span more than 15,000 square feet—with a nearly 1,100-square-foot patio—and feature 68 full-motion simulators. Atlanta’s location, the first in the South, is scheduled to roll out later this year.

Rendering of Atlanta's F1 Arcade.F1® Arcade/The Interlock ATL

Private room at F1 Arcade Boston. F1® Arcade/The Interlock ATL

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Subtitle Leases mean nearly all vacant WeWork space is filled; F1 Arcade also in mix

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Revisiting the utopian vision for South Downtown, eight years later Josh Green Fri, 03/21/2025 - 08:14 Fourteen months after their work in South Downtown began, the Atlanta Ventures team shared video this week that could make any longtime downtown booster’s heart flutter with joy. 

The short clip shows Broad Street—one of Atlanta’s most intact but woefully vacant collection of historic facades and storefronts—as a bona fide construction zone, with a full brigade of neon-clad contractors at work. For once, as it pertains to South Downtown, this wasn’t a flashy rendering or sizzle reel. It was real life. 

It also looked… kind of familiar. 

This spring marks eight years since Germany-based Newport RE lifted the veil on their big-time ambitions for turning acres of old buildings and parking lots south of Five Points into a vibrant, urban district with European scale. And cafes. And lofts. And something called the “fútbol gastropub.” 

But alas, what was predicted to be a half-billion-dollar investment in 2017 didn’t come to be. (Ditto for the two residential towers Newport pitched in 2022, with 650 new apartments that might have quickly spurred fundamental changes.) 

Newport's early vision for Hotel Row (at right) and the full-block 222 Mitchell St. building (left), with the newly opened The Benz as a backdrop. Newport RE/file

Red denotes new construction planned to be interspersed throughout Newport's South Downtown blueprint, as of 2017. Newport RE/file

Anyone with a passing interest in Atlanta development knows Newport’s vision went bust and tumbled into foreclosure proceedings before the tech-based Atlanta Ventures crew swooped in and started packing more properties into a 10-block portfolio. Construction is underway across the district, and Atlanta Ventures heads relayed earlier this month they’ve started touring potential financial partners to help speed the pace of redevelopment. 

But will it all stack up to what Newport initially had in mind?             

Pretend Broad and Mitchell streets are Memory Lane, and find a quick tour of Newport’s pre-pandemic, utopian outlook for South Downtown in the gallery above. 

And for this installment of Friday Fun Bag, let’s ask ourselves: Did we dodge a bullet? Or are we eight years behind? 

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Scope of the blocks in question under Newport's vision, long before mixed-use towers began climbing from the Gulch. Newport RE/file

Red denotes new construction planned to be interspersed throughout Newport's South Downtown blueprint, as of 2017. Newport RE/file

Newport's early vision for Hotel Row (at right) and the full-block 222 Mitchell St. building (left), with the newly opened The Benz as a backdrop. Newport RE/file

Looking south on an enlivened and pedestrianized Broad Street, per Newport's vision. None of this came to pass. Newport RE/file

Newport's planned revisions for H. L. Green’s store and sign and Broad Street. Newport RE/file

What the Peachtree and Mitchell street intersection in South Downtown could have looked like under the Newport plan.Newport RE/file

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Images: How duplex housing has sprung from blighted corner Josh Green Thu, 03/20/2025 - 15:48 In recent months, a pocket of new Howell Station duplexes has sprung up on formerly blighted properties within earshot of the Atlanta Beltline’s growing Westside Trail. 

Incorporating brick and metal cladding, the relatively minimal residences have replaced a long-vacant row of dilapidated buildings and empty lots near the corner of West Marietta Street and Longley Avenue.

Developers initially filed plans in summer 2022 for the dozen duplex buildings, or 24 homes total, on a Howell Station block fronting West Marietta Street, just east of the Beltline.

Previous plans showed two rows of six buildings situated around the block, with a pervious driveway and parking spaces—but no garages, and no covered parking—in between. That was later changed.

The project's facades along West Marietta Street today. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Covered parking and garage entries at the eastern portion of the construction site today.Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Designs compiled by Atlanta-based Gotsch Studio indicate each duplex will have base levels with one-car garages, foyers, and offices. Above that will be the main living level, and third floors would see two bedrooms and bathrooms. 

Average square footages (1,353 initially) were increased by about 220 square feet, the most recent plans show. 

The five parcels in question are owned by an LLC called WPCS. Paces Ferry Builders and B+C Studio landscape architects are also listed in permitting records as being involved.

We reached out to project officials this week for information on when the duplexes will deliver—and what they will cost—but no responses had come before press time. 

Condition of buildings at the corner of Longley Avenue and West Marietta Street, next to empty properties at right, prior to construction in 2023. Google Maps

Looking west, toward the Beltline, along West Marietta Street. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

The duplexes continue a spate of investment in the West Marietta Street corridor, due west of Midtown, in recent years.  

A few blocks east, the area’s first condo tower—the glassy, 22-story Seven88 West Midtown—debut 279 units in the waning days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Remaining unsold units there more recently switched to rental housing. 

Also nearby, the QTS Data Centers expansion project calls for roughly 400 stacked multifamily units and townhomes to eventually be built along West Marietta Street, too. So far, the data center has delivered, but housing of any type has yet to move forward. 

Meanwhile, Beltline officials say the full Westside Trail is on pace to deliver sometime this spring. That will provide a paved, off-street pathway from downtown, out to the mainline loop, and then down around to Pittsburgh Yards.

Find a closer look and more context for the West Marietta Street duplexes in the gallery above. 

The revised Howell Station site plan shows floorplans with one-car garage slots. Gotsch Studio/B+C Studio

The multi-parcel site's 1134 West Marietta St. location (in red) between Midtown and Westside Park. Google Maps

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The multi-parcel site's 1134 West Marietta St. location (in red) between Midtown and Westside Park. Google Maps

Condition of buildings at the corner of Longley Avenue and West Marietta Street, next to empty properties at right, prior to construction in 2023. Google Maps

The revised Howell Station site plan shows floorplans with one-car garage slots. Gotsch Studio/B+C Studio

Covered parking and garage entries at the eastern portion of the construction site today.Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Second-level terraces over garages. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

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The project's facades along West Marietta Street today. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Looking west, toward the Beltline, along West Marietta Street. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Remaining lots at the 1134 West Marietta St. project today. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

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Revised floorplans for most duplexes. Gotsch Studio/B+C Studio

How the duplex units have come together in Howell Station along Longley Avenue. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Communal entry along Longley Avenue. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Subtitle West Marietta Street infill project is situated between Atlanta Beltline, West Midtown attractions

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Crane watch: ATL's tallest building in 3 decades making skyline mark Josh Green Thu, 03/20/2025 - 12:59 The tallest skyscraper built in Atlanta since before Bill Clinton was president is starting to become visible from points all across town. 

When we last checked in on 1072 West Peachtree’s construction progress with a drone before Thanksgiving, the tower’s wider base was on the verge of topping out. That portion will include more than 20 stories of Class A offices, parking, retail, and amenities. 

Since then, vertical progress on the 60-story development has steadily ticked up.  

As of Saturday, construction on the roughly 730-foot-tall structure had reached six stories above the base level. That means three dozen more floors of the slender, taller section of the building are left to go. 

We set out recently at street level to show the project’s context in the Midtown skyline of today—and to give a rough approximation of its stance in the near future. 

The view today—and rough estimate of the building's future stance—from 17th Street near Atlantic Station. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Approximation of how the 60-story building will lord over the Connector. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

For context, Rockefeller Group’s plans call for 1072 West Peachtree to stand just 90 feet shorter than One Atlantic Center—Atlanta’s third tallest building, an iconic structure topped with a golden spire designed by Johnson/Burgee Architects. The two buildings will stand about two blocks apart, both on West Peachtree Street. 

But the Rockefeller project is situated uphill from its taller counterpart. That could give the impression from afar—and we can only guess here—that the sky-rises are of nearly equal height. Which is fun to think about. 

The New York City-based developer has described 1072 West Peachtree as Atlanta’s tallest residential building and tallest mixed-use tower. 

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Construction has climbed a half-dozen floors above base office, parking, and retail levels today. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

The tower will climb more than 730 feet, making it Atlanta’s fifth tallest high-rise and supplanting Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel for the No. 5 spot, Rockefeller officials have said. 

No taller skyrise has been built in Atlanta since 1992. 

Rockefeller bought the former 1.14-acre U.S. Postal Service facility site—situated at the southwest corner of West Peachtree and 12th streets—for $25 million in 2020. 

Designs by Atlanta-based TVS call for 6,300 square feet of retail at the street and 224,000 square feet of Class A office space above that. Topping the building will be more than 350 apartments alongside amenities described as world-class. 

Other components will include Midtown’s largest outdoor amenity deck—aka, the “Sky Garden”—designed for expansive views of the city, per Rockefeller. Inside, plans call for a two-story space where cyclists can lock away bikes and take a shower, in addition to a fitness center described by developers as the best around.  

An unofficial depiction of how the 1072 West Peachtree project would relate to existing Midtown buildings. Submitted/@cbenderatl

As seen from Northside Drive near IKEA, the 1072 West Peachtree tower is becoming visible from parts of Atlanta far west of Midtown. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Rockefeller was attracted to the site for its connection to Midtown’s existing street grid and proximity to two MARTA stations, the Southeast’s biggest concentration of cultural and art attractions, and the largest Whole Foods on the East Coast. The company is familiar with the area, having partnered with Selig Development on the 40 West 12th condos a block from the former post office.

No timeline for 1072 West Peachtree’s completion has been specified, but work has now been underway at the site for two years.  

Even for Midtown, which has been transformed by high-rise investment over the past decade, the Rockefeller project promises to stand out—as we’re starting to see now. Find a closer look in the gallery above. 

The latest rendering showing the 1072 West Peachtree project's eastern facade, toward Peachtree Street and Piedmont Park. Courtesy of Rockefeller Group

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As seen from Northside Drive near IKEA, the 1072 West Peachtree tower is becoming visible from parts of Atlanta far west of Midtown. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

The view today—and rough estimate of the building's future stance—from 17th Street near Atlantic Station. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Approximation of how the 60-story building will lord over the Connector. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Construction has climbed a half-dozen floors above base office, parking, and retail levels today. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Construction progress as of Saturday, at center, as seen from 17th Street over the downtown Connector. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

From a 17th Street overpass. Plans call for the building to stand 90 feet shorter than One Atlantic Center, the city's third tallest, shown at left. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

1072 West Peachtree's approximate stance in the broader context of Midtown and downtown. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

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ATL e-scooter boom; notable Sweet Auburn book; Kirkwood housing Josh Green Thu, 03/20/2025 - 08:13 **CITYWIDE—**Following a pandemic lull, a leading e-scooter and e-bike provider says micromobility options are unequivocally back in Atlanta—and setting patronage records. (Need proof? Open your eyes in blocks anywhere near the Beltline.) 

Officials with Lime report Atlantans have shunned this year’s chilly weather so far and taken well over 200,000 trips in 2025, with more than half of those coming in February alone. Those February ridership numbers are up an impressive 200 percent over 2023, according to Lime, which provided Urbanize Atlanta with promo pics recently taken in our fair city to show just how much the ATL market means. 

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Lime launched in Atlanta in June 2018 and has logged more than 5.2 million rides here since—totaling almost 6 million miles traveled. 

“To see Lime ridership taking off in Atlanta… shows how incredible the potential is for micromobility to succeed, even in a city that is historically car-dependent,” said Carol Antúnez, Lime’s senior manager of government relations, in a statement. “We’re working [to] offer a reliable and time-efficient commuter alternative, and are dedicated to building the future of transportation in Atlanta.” 

Well, somebody's got to build it, eh? 

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SWEET AUBURN—Good read alert: Atlanta commercial real estate veteran Gene Kansas, head of an eponymous firm and founder of Constellations, spent years researching and writing the new book “Civil Sights, Sweet Auburn, a Journey through Atlanta’s National Treasure.” The effort shows. 

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A co-publication of University of Georgia Press and Georgia Humanities, the book chronicles one of the city’s most richly historic places with artfully understated drawings and no shortage “huh—I didn’t know that” moments. On Tuesday, the author headlines the next Atlanta City Studio Book Club meeting (6:30 to 8:30 p.m., March 25, Atlanta City Studio, 235 Mitchell St.) to talk Sweet Auburn history and ongoing preservation efforts. It’s free. 

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CITYWIDE—Despite doom-and-gloom talk about metro Atlanta’s office market that’s dragged on for years, commercial real estate brokerage firm Marcus & Millichap is bullish on the city’s office prospects—to perhaps a surprising degree.Published on Tuesday, the company’s2025 Atlanta Office Investment Forecast Report indicates the metro’s office market has reached a turning point, with shrinking vacancy rates, investor confidence, and corporate expansions being a formula for newfound momentum.

Some highlights of the company’s 2025 forecast provided this week:  

• Marcus & Millichap foresees Atlanta’s employment market expanding by 27,000 jobs in 2025, with 2,000 new office-using roles, helping to support leasing demand;
• Vacancy rates are projected to decline to 19.4 percent, driven by corporate expansions and reduced new supply;
• Office construction will slow to its lowest level in a decade, with inventory growing by just 0.4 percent, primarily in Midtown, Sandy Springs, and Alpharetta;
• Average asking rents will rise to $27.52 per square foot, supported by falling vacancy rates and a limited construction pipeline.

“As one of the nation’s fastest-growing economies, Atlanta continues to attract businesses and investors seeking stability and long-term upside,” noted John M. Leonard, the company’s first vice president and regional manager. 

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KIRKWOOD—Plans are very preliminary, but an affordable housing proposal for formerly homeless people on one of Kirkwood’s best-known residential streets has some neighbors up-in-arms (citing parking, traffic, etc.) while others back the proposal, as Atlanta News First relays. The project—put together by the same team behind the recently opened Ralph David House in Reynoldstown—would consume an empty lot where Howard and Hallman streets meet, next to and owned by longstanding Turner Monumental Methodist Church. 

The Kirkwood lot in question today, at the southwest corner of Howard Street's intersection with Hallman Street. Google Maps

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New Medley district uncloaks plans for 133 fully brick townhomes Josh Green Wed, 03/19/2025 - 16:35 Two months after officially breaking ground, developers have unveiled plans for a luxury residential portion of Johns Creek’s Medley project that will aim to echo successes at Avalon, which has recently been called a template for mixed-use nodes around the world. 

Helmed by the same developer who led Avalon’s rise from abandoned acreage in Alpharetta, Toro Development Company released details this week for 133 luxury townhomes bound for Medley they say will be unique as a “mixed-use resi” building category.  

That is, for-sale housing that replicates the walkability of living intown, only in a master-planned, suburban setting. 

Another selling point, according to TDC, is that all Medley townhomes will be fully built of brick. 

Avalon’s 101 for-sale homes are a template for Medley's townhouses, which will start at 2,000 square feet, according to TDC reps. Courtesy of Toro Development Company

A central residential green at Avalon today. Courtesy of Toro Development Company

Situated along Lakeview Drive and Johns Creek Parkway, Medley’s townhome plans call for two distinct designs, ranging from 2,000 to 2,800 square feet in three stories with outdoor terraces. 

Expect 10-foot ceilings in main living spaces, three or four bedrooms, and “best-in-class craftsmanship” with building materials that include stone and natural wood, per TDC. The Medley neighborhood will include a centralized greenspace with a pool and clubhouse, plus an additional pocket park and walkability to two larger greenspaces in the district. 

Price ranges haven’t been specified, as sales aren't expected to begin until sometime next year. 

Mark Toro, TDC’s chief vision officer and an Avalon homeowner, said the goal is to create a “rare luxury” in suburban environments similar to Avalon that allows for a vibrant, urban-like experience without getting in a car. “With Avalon, we saw incredible home value growth because of the unique lifestyle that comes with owning a home in a mixed-use environment,” Toro said in an announcement this week.  

TDC reps say Avalon’s 101 for-sale homes have greatly outpaced the region in terms of value growth since they started coming to market in 2016. Avalon’s current per-square-foot average home value is $565, or what TDC calculated as 221 percent of the metro’s median, per sales listings data. (Anecdotally, TDC points to an Avalon four-bedroom, five-bathroom standalone house that fetched $2.75 million a year ago—at $859 per square foot.)

Active intown developer Empire Communities will be the exclusive homebuilder at Medley.

“The homes coming to Medley are certainly beautiful, but the real selling point is Medley itself,” said Caroline Simmel, Empire’s senior vice president of sales and marketing. “Meals cooked by top chefs, coffee shops to work remotely, daily events and entertainment, fitness studios just steps away—this is what it’s like living in a mixed-use community, and people will pay a premium for it.” 

Overview of Avalon's 101-house residential section. Courtesy of Toro Development Company

The 43-acre Medley will be the first new section of Johns Creek's Town Center concept. Toro Development Company; designs, Nelson Worldwide

Beyond the townhomes, the Johns Creek City Council unanimously approved plans last fall for a 175-key Medley hotel that TDC hopes will also replicate the success of Avalon’s hospitality component.

Medley's phase one is also set to include roughly 180,000 square feet for retail, restaurant, and entertainment spaces, a 25,000-square-foot plaza, and 100,000 square feet of offices. 

Elsewhere, plans call for 340 luxury-grade apartments in the initial phase.

Once that opens, TDC plans to host 200 events per year, ranging from live music and outdoor wellness classes to art festivals and watch parties, officials have said.

On the food front, Medley’s phase one has signed the first suburban locations of Fadó Irish Pub and Little Rey, a Mexican concept by chef and restaurateur Ford Fry. Other announced tenants include CRÚ Food & Wine Bar, 26 Thai Kitchen and Bar, Five Daughters Bakery, Summit Coffee, Lily Sushi Bar, Knuckies Hoagies, Cookie Fix, Sugarcoat Beauty, BODY20, and AYA Medical Spa, among other concepts.

Projected look of Medley's repurposed office building, next to a standalone restaurant and central plaza. Courtesy of Toro Development Company

The Medley site's location in Johns Creek, in relation to Atlanta's north OTP cities. Google Maps

All told, Medley is expected to create 900 residences considered luxury (all townhomes and apartments), another 20,000 square feet of retail, and an Avalon-style central greenspace designed for community events and gatherings. It will eventually be just one facet of the city’s 192-acre Town Center, a blend of housing, hotels, offices, lakes, and greenspace about the size of Piedmont Park.

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The Medley site's location in Johns Creek, in relation to Atlanta's north OTP cities. Google Maps

The 43-acre Medley will be the first new section of Johns Creek's Town Center concept. Toro Development Company; designs, Nelson Worldwide

Projected look of Medley's repurposed office building, next to a standalone restaurant and central plaza. Courtesy of Toro Development Company

How the 175-key boutique hotel is expected to relate to a Medley greenspace and retail. Courtesy of Toro Development Company

Avalon’s 101 for-sale homes are a template for Medley's townhouses, which will start at 2,000 square feet, according to TDC reps. Courtesy of Toro Development Company

A central residential green at Avalon today. Courtesy of Toro Development Company

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Overview of Avalon's 101-house residential section. Courtesy of Toro Development Company

Subtitle The “mixed-use resi” offerings look toward Alpharetta’s Avalon for inspiration

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In northeast Atlanta, pocket of modern-style housing starts to rise Josh Green Wed, 03/19/2025 - 14:34 Think pockets of distinctly modern new townhomes are exclusively a Beltline-neighborhood thing? Think again. 

An infill project called Frederick Walk has cleared away buildings and started vertical construction near popular commercial districts in northeast Atlanta’s North Druid Hills. 

The site is located at 1501 LaVista Road, just west of Briarcliff Road, a Tesla dealership, and the new location of Che Butter Jonez restaurant, where neighborhoods Woodland Hills and LaVista Park meet. 

The Frederick Walk project is replacing two former houses on large lots that had been converted to accounting and law firms and other business uses.

As shown this month, vertical construction on Frederick Walk has begun. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Urban Eco Group/Inhance Development; via Compass

According to developers Urban Eco Group and Inhance Development, Frederick Walk will consist of 18 contemporary townhomes “woven into the verdant landscape of North Druid Hills.”

Each unit will come with rooftop terraces overlooking the tree canopy with either three or four bedrooms, per the project's website. 

Inhance Development specializes in infill development in metro Atlanta, while Urban Eco Group’s recent work includes the new Leon on Ponce condos, a modern mid-rise building near Ponce City Market. Domain Custom Homes is the project’s contractor.

The 1501 Lavista Road site (in red) in relation to nearby commercial buildings where LaVista and Briarcliff roads meet. Google Maps

We’ve reached out to Compass sales reps for information on Frederick Walk pricing and ETA, and we’ll update this story with any additional details that come. 

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The townhome site in question, east of Interstate 85 and north of Emory University. Google Maps

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As shown this month, vertical construction on Frederick Walk has begun. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Towering trees left standing around the townhome site. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

The 1501 Lavista Road site (in red) in relation to nearby commercial buildings where LaVista and Briarcliff roads meet. Google Maps

Subtitle Infill project Frederick Walk replaces former home lots on LaVista Road

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GDOT flirts with idea of Atlanta-to-Savannah intercity rail Josh Green Wed, 03/19/2025 - 08:18 Imagine boarding an intercity train at lunchtime on Friday in Atlanta, finishing out the workweek online while in transit, and spending the weekend in one of the most walkable cities in America—Savannah—before boarding the train again Sunday to swing back home. 

Or imagine using the train system to do business in either city during the week—no sitting in traffic, gas expenses, or exorbitant parking fees required. 

Seem like science fiction? Maybe not. 

Following a stakeholder kickoff meeting in late January (yes, during this presidential administration), the Georgia Department of Transportation (no, not a typo) has entered the public engagement phase of what’s called the Atlanta-Savannah Intercity Passenger Rail Project (squeal!). 

Many hurdles and question marks, of course, stand between here and actual passenger rail service from Georgia’s state capital to The Hostess City, but for alternate transportation enthusiasts, an analysis covering many of Georgia’s largest and fastest-growing cities could be a step in the right direction. 

The project study area in question covers a wide swath of Georgia. Georgia Department of Transportation

The $10 million study—funded with $8 million from the Federal Rail Administration awarded in 2023, plus a $2 million match from GDOT—aims to produce what’s called a Service Development Plan for passenger rail between Georgia’s growing population centers and increasing demand for travel between them. 

The broader goal is to develop a program that helps guide the creation of an intercity rail network around the country, starting with rail projects deemed ready for implementation. 

According to GDOT, Amtrak is just one of the “successful private operators” that will be vetted for cost and feasibility for operating the rail line in Georgia. (Amtrak has praised intown Atlanta as a strategic intercity rail hub location and last year requested nearly $30 million in federal funding to secure a development site at an undisclosed location here.)

As a first step, GDOT is asking for your 2 cents with a quick and engaging survey to gauge interest in and take suggestions for potential Atlanta-to-Savannah rail. Our test-run took less than three minutes.

Expected to span several years, the Atlanta-Savannah Intercity Passenger Rail Project will evaluate benefits and costs of the passenger rail line, weigh financial feasibility, and whittle down the range of service alternatives. 

Nothing resembling a construction timeline has been compiled because no funding for final design and building the rail line has been identified, per GDOT. 

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More optimistically, GDOT says a cost-benefit analysis and the hunt for potential funding sources will come next year. 

GDOT’s goal is to complete the corridor’s Service Development Plan and then finish an Environmental Impact Statement by early 2028. 

Choo choo? 

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The project study area in question covers a wide swath of Georgia. Georgia Department of Transportation

Subtitle Survey asks: Would you use it, ATL?

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Images: Growing The Works ATL district adds $18M parking deck Josh Green Tue, 03/18/2025 - 16:54 Four and a 1/2 years after it started rolling out office, retail, and food-and-beverage spaces, big things are afoot at The Works ATL, a growing adaptive-reuse district in Underwood Hills. 

Officials with Selig Enterprises, the property’s developer, tell Urbanize Atlanta another parking deck with modern-style screening is scheduled to open in coming weeks on Logan Circle, just north of The Works’ main working and dining hub. 

The $18-million public parking deck will add 550 spaces to the district, according to Selig reps. 

It joins another Smith Dalia Architects-designed parking garage (dare we say, an eye-catching structure) that opened as part of The Works’ 27-acre first phase in 2021. 

Eventually, The Works is expected to span some 80 acres in what’s been coined Atlanta’s “Upper Westside,” about three miles northwest of Midtown.  

Exterior of the $18-million parking deck, as seen earlier this month. Chad Buxton/Dakota Contractors; via The Works ATL FB

Location of the district's second parking structure (starred) in relation to entries. Google Maps

Selig officials also relay that The Works’ first phase of offices—totaling 125,000 square feet of space—is now fully leased, despite a historically challenging office market across Atlanta and other cities. 

Alongside Google Fiber, recently signed office tenants at The Works include branded content production company Narrative Content Group; leading Southeast communications and PR firm Babbit Bodner; office furniture retailer and interior design studio Interior Environments; and the City of Atlanta, which has leased space for a division of Atlanta Police Department’s public safety team at The Works. 

Mindy Selig, the developer’s senior vice president, called the recent office signings “a testament to The Works’ creative and innovative environment that continues to draw in top-tier companies even while the larger office market experiences headwinds” in an announcement. 

Formerly rundown warehouses, the adaptive-reuse district has tallied numerous awards— including the Metro Atlanta Redevelopment Summit’s 2024 Project of the Year—as it’s grown into a mixed-use destination. 

Parking garage entry and screening. Chad Buxton/Dakota Contractors; via The Works ATL FB

Fenced-off roadway to the new parking deck near Google Fiber offices and Scofflaw brewing today. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Other office tenants include local food media company Atlanta Eats, radio conglomerate iHeart Media, creative editorial shop Uppercut, and photopolymer plate manufacturer MacDermid Graphic Solutions. 

Those companies join more than 50 retail tenants at The Works’ first phase, including the 31-stall food hall Chattahoochee Food Works, Fetch Park, Your 3rd Spot, Fox Bros Bar-B-Q, Dr. Scofflaw’s brewery, Ballard Designs, and Adelina Social Goods. 

Other components of the district include the first residential piece, 306-unit Westbound at The Works apartments, a linear hangout area called The Spur, and kid-friendly, 1-acre greenspace The Camp. 

The new Logan Circle parking structure in relation to existing The Works buildings (at left), as seen in January. Google Maps

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Location of the district's second parking structure (starred) in relation to entries. Google Maps

The new Logan Circle parking structure in relation to existing The Works buildings (at left), as seen in January. Google Maps

Fenced-off roadway to the new parking deck near Google Fiber offices and Scofflaw brewing today. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Exterior of the $18-million parking deck, as seen earlier this month. Chad Buxton/Dakota Contractors; via The Works ATL FB

Parking garage entry and screening. Chad Buxton/Dakota Contractors; via The Works ATL FB

Subtitle Selig-developed project has also fully leased all phase one office space, officials announce

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Vision emerges for vacant corner near downtown Connector Josh Green Tue, 03/18/2025 - 15:09 How a long-vacant corner in the northern blocks of downtown could be repurposed for Atlanta visitors is coming into clearer focus. 

Officials with Atlanta-based BCA Studios Architects have recently shared renderings depicting how a dual-branded hotel project could look and function at 524 West Peachtree St., between a major hospital and the Connector freeway. 

Hotel uses have been pitched for the relatively tight, .46-acre corner site—where the 1920s Rosser Building was demolished more than six years ago—for a decade. 

According to BCA Studios, the project will include Georgia’s first Motto by Hilton hotel adjacent to a TownPlace Suites by Marriott, both of them operating independently. Plans call for 381 rooms total, plus a rooftop restaurant and coffee shop at street level. 

Looking north across the two-brand proposal into Midtown. BCA Studios Architects

The 524 West Peachtree St. site where a 1920s building was razed six years ago. Google Maps

The architecture firm counts offices in Atlanta and Gainesville, and its portfolio includes numerous hotel projects around the Sunbelt, including multi-brand high-rise hospitality developments.

The site is situated between the Connector and Emory University Hospital Midtown, directly south of a 3,000-space parking garage that city planners once hailed as being “beautiful” before it debuted in 2021. 

Next door to the west is historic Baltimore Block, a row of 1880s landmark buildings considered Atlanta’s first apartments.  

We’ve inquired with developer Horizon Hospitality for a construction outlook this week, and we’ll update this story with any additional details that come. Building permit filings show no activity since September, when the project initially came to light. 

A Special Administrative permit filing from last year indicates the hotel project would include just 19 onsite parking spaces total, when 384 are allowed. (Parking decks are located next door and across the street to both the east and south.) Per the filing, 45 bicycle parking spaces would also be in the mix. 

Property records indicate the site sold for $8.4 million to an Alpharetta-based LLC called Atlanta Hotel Development in 2023. 

How the West Peachtree Street hotel project would stack up next to a newer, large parking garage just to the north. BCA Studios Architects

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The West Peachtree Street site was formerly home to the Rosser Building, named for an architecture firm based there for decades, until it was demolished in 2018 to make way for a 12-story, dual-branded Marriott hotel that didn’t move forward. Ditto for another hotel proposal that had been put together a couple of years earlier.

The site's former structure was designed by prominent Atlanta architect A. Ten Eyck Brown for an automobile distributor, and it was once considered part of the city’s “Automobile Row,” a chain of distributors and dealerships. Following its automobile uses, the building served as the headquarters for Eastern Airlines. In the 1980s, Rosser architects moved into the building, occupying it until 2012. Abandoned and in desperate need of repair, the building was sold in 2015.

Since before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Motto by Hilton brand has been trying to crack into the Atlanta market as part of the Waldo’s development in Old Fourth Ward, which remains delayed more than three years after initial phases of construction launched.

Looking south across the site today toward Centennial Olympic Park. Google Maps

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The 524 West Peachtree St. site where a 1920s building was razed six years ago. Google Maps

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Looking north across the two-brand proposal into Midtown. BCA Studios Architects

How the West Peachtree Street hotel project would stack up next to a newer, large parking garage just to the north. BCA Studios Architects

Looking south across the site today toward Centennial Olympic Park. Google Maps

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Subtitle Dual-branded hotel concept calls for nearly 400 more rooms on West Peachtree Street

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BREAKING: Midtown announces permanent park for failed mega-project site Josh Green Tue, 03/18/2025 - 13:42 Atlanta greenspace lovers, rejoice! 

A large, vacant site in the heart of Midtown where one of the most ambitious high-rise proposals in city history, No2 Opus Place, was pitched for several years, tweaked, and ultimately fell apart will become a permanent public park, the subdistrict’s leadership announced today. 

The Midtown Improvement District’s Board of Directors revealed today that the agency is under contract on a 4-acre site at 98 14th St. that couldn’t be much more high-profile, surrounded by Atlanta arts institutions, landmark office buildings, and notable high-rise hotels and residential towers. 

The idle, partially excavated 14th Street site—situated between Peachtree and West Peachtree streets—is considered one of the final developable sites of its size left in Midtown. According to Midtown Alliance, more than 44,500 residents, students, workers, and visitors are located within a seven-minute walk of the parcel on any given day. 

For context, the 4-acre site is about 2 acres smaller than Woodruff Park, a centerpiece downtown greenspace. 

The 4-acre site's 14th Street frontage, as seen last summer. Google Maps

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Pitched as one of the grandest, most amenitized skyscrapers Atlanta’s ever seen, No2 Opus Place first came to light in 2016 as a 74-story, $300-million statement condo building with amenities that called for two pools, an IMAX screening room, and a 40th-floor golf simulator. Despite staging a dynamite-fueled “groundbreaking” in 2018, the project was scaled back and consistently delayed—to the chagrin of development observers and neighborhood boosters—until the site ultimately tumbled into foreclosure in fall 2023. 

Now, MID officials are aiming to close on the 14th Street site in mid-May at what agency leadership calls a pivotal time for Midtown, which has been the epicenter of Atlanta’s high-rise real estate boom for more than a dozen years. The pending land acquisition was announced today at the 2025 Midtown Alliance Annual Meeting at the Fox Theatre, which was attended by more than 1,000 civic and business leaders. 

Design and fundraising phases would follow the land acquisition. The goal is to create a “premier attraction” that’s a hub for cultural and arts experience people won’t find anywhere but Atlanta, officials said in today’s announcement. Malloy Peterson, an MID board member and Selig Enterprises senior vice president of development, said the “pioneering move” marks the first time a Community Improvement District in Georgia has acted to acquire land to create a signature public space.

Kevin Green, Midtown Alliance president and MID secretary, told Urbanize Atlanta the seller is an entity of Benmark Atlanta Lender LLC that foreclosed on the property in November 2023, but he said the purchase price won’t be disclosed until the transaction is finalized. 

“Once the property is closed, we will embark on a public design process to create something spectacular,” Green wrote via email. “Midtown Alliance will then lead a philanthropic capital campaign to fund and construct these enhancements. Timing on construction is to be determined.”

Context of the site between the Connector expressway (left) and Colony Square (right). Google Maps

An early rendering shows No2 Opus Place when it was designed to be taller—a 730-foot glass statement piece to rival the condo towers of Manhattan and Tokyo. Plans were later scaled back. Perkins+Will/No2 Opus Place

Constituting Midtown’s central high-rise and business core, the MID spans 770 acres but counts just 1.1 acres of permanent open public space today. The one-square-mile district, founded 25 years ago, has seen 55 major development projects delivered since 2018 with a value of more than $10.6 billion, per MID officials. 

“This is a seminal moment to secure open space designed for community gathering, and ensuring its availability forever,” said Mary Pat Matheson, Midtown Alliance Board Chair and Atlanta Botanical Garden president and CEO. 

Long before No2 Opus Place plans, a sweeping symphony hall by Spanish starchitect Santiago Calatrava also failed to take flight on the 14th Street site, a victim of the Great Recession. 

“Our leadership viewed this as a generational opportunity to preserve land forever and create a signature amenity for Midtown and our city,” added Kurt Hartman, MID board chair and Hines’ retired senior managing director. “Given the rapid rate Midtown has been developing, this was seen as now or never.” 

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The shabby, vacant site from ground level today.Courtesy of Midtown Alliance

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Context of the site between the Connector expressway (left) and Colony Square (right). Google Maps

The 4-acre site's 14th Street frontage, as seen last summer. Google Maps

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The shabby, vacant site from ground level today.Courtesy of Midtown Alliance

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Subtitle Midtown Improvement District targets 4 acres in heart of district where No2 Opus Place didn’t happen

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