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Photos: Georgia Tech installs shimmering landmark as ode to female alum Josh Green Fri, 03/07/2025 - 16:00 When it comes to public spaces on Georgia Tech’s urban campus, recent years have seen additions that include a towering sculpture by legendary alum John Portman and the EcoCommons, a 7-acre greenspace that confronts an ugly racial past in the area. 

But the campus has never seen anything quite like this. 

Georgia Tech’s newest permanent art installation—a sweeping piece with important, evolving messaging near the John Lewis Student Center—is scheduled to be officially unveiled Monday, as Women’s History Month 2025 unfolds. 

Titled Pathway of Progress: Celebrating Georgia Tech Women, the shimmering mosaic includes 3,000 mirrored tiles, pathways, and functional seating with a backdrop of campus structures and Atlanta skyscrapers.

An overview of the Georgia Tech installation, as shown in a rendering. Courtesy of Georgia Tech

As seen today, an aerial of the project by Merica May Jensen, GT MGT 2008, M. ARCH 2011.Photo by Parrish Ruiz de Velasco, courtesy of Gray Matters

The work is by Merica May Jensen, a Georgia Tech alumna and lead project artist-architect and a founding creative director at New York City-based design studio Gray Matters. 

The reflective piece (symbolically and not) aims to honor decades of Georgia Tech women’s achievements—and to inspire and inform students on campus today. Input from current faculty, staff, and students helped inform the design, as Georgia Tech reps tell Urbanize Atlanta. 

On the official opening day, the installation will feature 168 tiles with stories and brief passages from the inaugural female honorees. More stories will be added on an annual basis. 

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Photo by Parrish Ruiz de Velasco, courtesy of Gray Matters

The project, spearheaded by alumna Andrea Laliberte, includes a large mosaic ribbon that rises from a local silver cloud granite table and ends in granite from Barre, Vermont, where Laliberte was born. 

“There are, and have been, amazing women here, but no one knows about them,” said Laliberte in a recent announcement. “My hope is that their stories inspire the next generation.”

In the gallery above, see how the artistic tribute turned out—from up close and high above. 

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An overview of the Georgia Tech installation, as shown in a rendering. Courtesy of Georgia Tech

As seen today, an aerial of the project by Merica May Jensen, GT MGT 2008, M. ARCH 2011.Photo by Parrish Ruiz de Velasco, courtesy of Gray Matters

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Subtitle Permanent, evolving piece near John Lewis Student Center to commemorate Women’s History Month

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New project aims to beef up Gwinnett County downtown's charms Josh Green Fri, 03/07/2025 - 13:55 When it comes to blossoming OTP downtowns, the City of Lilburn might not leap to mind for Atlanta’s intown diehards. 

But in recent years the historic, former railroad hub in southwestern Gwinnett County has sought to change that. 

The latest development proposal around Old Town Lilburn, as the historic commercial center is called, recently took a key step forward in a former industrial section tucked off Main Street. 

Atlanta-based RangeWater Real Estate has closed on a 4-acre site at 45 Railroad Ave. to build 269 apartments near a new park, boutique retail, a multipurpose trail, and a wave of other new housing, according to City of Lilburn officials.  

The aesthetic of RangeWater’s project, which has not been named, is meant to echo the area’s industrial and railroad roots. Expect studio to three-bedroom apartments (537 to 1,578 square feet) alongside amenities that include a pool, “Charleston-style” gardens for outdoor dining, coworking space, a pet spa, a bar for residents, and other perks, per officials. 

Planned Railroad Avenue facade of the RangeWater multifamily project. The city has rezoned the existing warehouse building at right for a brewery tenant. Courtesy of RangeWater Real Estate

The 45 Railroad Ave. site's proximity to Ga. Highway 29/Lawrenceville Highway (top) and the 4.2-mile Camp Creek Greenway. Google Maps

Other facets will include an amphitheater-style courtyard for residents and the general public and a trailhead for the 4.2-mile Camp Creek Greenway, which travels along a nearby waterway of the same name. 

About a block from the site, the 10-acre Lilburn City Park opened several year ago. That's across the street from a 54-unit townhome community that expanded downtown’s walkable blocks. 

Overview of projects delivered, permitted, or under construction around Old Town Lilburn. City of Lilburn

RangeWater’s $75 million Lilburn project is expected to officially break ground either this month or next and deliver in late 2026. The company is partnering with Dallas-based TMGRI, a subsidiary of The Meridian Group, or TMG, on the apartments.  

Another component of the project will be a public-private parking deck that Lilburn Mayor Johnny Crist called “essential” to helping grow the city’s roster of restaurants, retail, and jobs. “Make no mistake about it,” said the mayor in a project announcement, “we are proud partners in this transformative development.”

Closer to its home base, Rangewater’s recent projects include a Doraville venture called Camino and an apartment project with a small retail component, The Vivian, along the Beltline's Southside Trail.    

Old Town Lilburn's location in the context of north OTP metro Atlanta. Google Maps

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Old Town Lilburn's location in the context of north OTP metro Atlanta. Google Maps

Planned Railroad Avenue facade of the RangeWater multifamily project. The city has rezoned the existing warehouse building at right for a brewery tenant. Courtesy of RangeWater Real Estate

Overview of projects delivered, permitted, or under construction around Old Town Lilburn. City of Lilburn

The 45 Railroad Ave. site's proximity to Ga. Highway 29/Lawrenceville Highway (top) and the 4.2-mile Camp Creek Greenway. Google Maps

Subtitle 4-acre Old Town Lilburn site situated near shops, Camp Creek Greenway, Lilburn City Park

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Neighbors start petition to thwart Amsterdam Walk redevelopment Josh Green Fri, 03/07/2025 - 08:05 First came the naysaying yard signs. Now comes the online campaign. 

Despite revisions to Amsterdam Walk redevelopment plans that shrunk some buildings by nearly half of their initial planned height, among other changes, neighbors in surrounding Morningside-Lenox Park are formally organizing to ask the city to reject the project soon. 

According to a Nextdoor campaign titled “CALL TO ACTION,” some nearby residents are lobbying neighbors to email and call Atlanta City Council members to voice displeasure with Portman Holdings’ recently unveiled Amsterdam Walk plans that would stand nine stories or less beside the Beltline. 

Since controversy over the project went quiet last summer, Portman has revised another aspect of the proposal, the residential unit count, bumping up the number of planned apartments from 840 to as many as 1,100. 

That’s the main bone of contention with neighbors who argue the lone artery in and out of Amsterdam Walk, Monroe Drive, is already impassable with traffic clogs at certain times of day. Adding a "landlocked" project with 1,435 parking spaces—and an estimated 13 percent bump in daily car trips—would exacerbate the problem and impact quality of life, the Nextdoor petition asserts. 

The naysaying “is not based on opposition to creating more affordable housing,” the petition reads. “It is a question of whether this proposal is appropriate for Amsterdam Walk… We think the answer is obvious. We need smart and sensible development. We need A Better Amsterdam Walk!”

Portman officials tell Urbanize Atlanta that 28 months of engagement with neighborhood groups has brought positive results for all involved, but the company has decided changes on such a considerable scale will never please everybody, and that bringing the project in its current incarnation before the city is the next logical step.   

The multifaceted Amsterdam Walk proposal as of last year, following a revision process that subtracted height. SOM architects/Portman Holdings

The proposal from the same angle today, per current Portman Holdings plans. SOM architects/Portman Holdings

As outlined in an online meeting Monday attended by more than 150 neighbors, Portman officials have altered the project enough they feel it should pass muster with eight city councilmembers and move toward development stages, as Rough Draft Atlanta reported.

According to the petition, the city council’s Zoning and Community Development/Human Services Committee will be voting on Portman’s development applications as soon as March 17. It advises neighbors to attend that meeting en masse and ask that the current version of the Amsterdam Walk vision be denied, stressing the plan “is neither feasible nor appropriate in scale.”

That committee functions to make recommendations to the full city council on urban redevelopment, land-use plans, housing, and other matters.  

Throughout the saga, Amsterdam Walk's future has been divisive, even among neighbors. 

Leadership with both the Virginia-Highland Civic Association and Morningside Lenox Park Association voted in May last year to support the rezoning and redevelopment. 

But also in May, the area’s Neighborhood Planning Unit, NPU-F, voted strongly against—282 to 84, or 77 percent—Portman’s plans. The following month, the city’s Zoning Review Board followed suit and also rejected the plans 3-2. 

Mike Greene, Portman’s senior vice president of development, said the company’s goal when neighborhood conversations started in September 2022 was “a wholehearted and honest desire to find an acceptable solution for all.”

“Unfortunately, we were not able to win over everyone,” Greene wrote via email today. “After much deliberation internally, we determined it wasn’t going to be possible to make everyone happy, and it was time to elevate the decision to our elected leaders who carry a wider view of city needs.”

Spread across 11 acres, the former warehouse district isn’t the bustling commercial and dining hub it used to be, but new segments of the Beltline’s Northeast Trail next door have boosted its cachet. 

The petition describes Portman’s proposal as the largest development neighborhoods Morningside-Lenox Park and Virginia-Highland have ever seen. 

Revised designs for an Amsterdam Walk interior courtyard space. SOM architects/Portman Holdings

Overall, the Amsterdam Walk project’s density would remain the same—1.18 million square feet—as plans called for last year, according to Portman. 

The number of buildings has been cut back from four to three, and those will stand a maximum of nine stories, as opposed to heights up to 17 stories initially proposed. With shorter and wider buildings, the public-accessible plaza space would be reduced from earlier plans but will still meet the minimum 20 percent required by the city, according to revised plans. 

Per the Nextdoor petition, neighbors also have beef with the loss of communal spaces at Amsterdam Walk. 

Portman “did nothing to reduce the scale by a single [square foot],” reads the petition. “They did this getting rid of public greenspace to cram [in] more nine-story buildings.” 

Find a refresher on what revised Amsterdam Walk development plans would entail in the gallery above. 

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Revised designs for an Amsterdam Walk interior courtyard space. SOM architects/Portman Holdings

How the project would look when approaching from the Beltline's Northeast Trail. SOM architects/Portman Holdings

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The multifaceted Amsterdam Walk proposal as of last year, following a revision process that subtracted height. SOM architects/Portman Holdings

The proposal from the same angle today, per current Portman Holdings plans. SOM architects/Portman Holdings

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Subtitle Before Atlanta City Council vote, revised project's opposition calls for "smart and sensible development"

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Images: Game-changing concept for OTP downtown comes into focus Josh Green Thu, 03/06/2025 - 16:37 A multi-pronged development proposal that could fundamentally change the downtown area of a fast-growing, far-north Atlanta suburb is coming into clearer focus. 

Plans compiled by Goodwyn Mills Cawood—the Montgomery-based architecture firm behind Chamblee’s award-winning city hall, as one recent example—call for transforming a section of historic downtown Canton with a boutique hotel, shopping and restaurants, and other uses. 

Following a series of community meetings, Canton’s Downtown Development Authority, city council, and other stakeholders recently reviewed concepts and renderings for what’s called the North Street Redevelopment, a mixed-use project backed by the city on land it owns. 

Last year, Canton’s DDA purchased five acres—home to a law firm’s building and low-rise apartments today—where the project would rise, adjacent to the Cherokee County Courthouse. 

The site is situated at the intersection of North and Brown streets, a few steps from many of Canton’s downtown shops and eateries. 

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Overview of a planned plaza area where North Street meets Brown Street in downtown Canton. Goodwyn Mills Cawood/City of Canton

Development plans haven’t been finalized, but they check the boxes city leadership had asked for. Those include: 

A parking deck standing at least five stories, with between 600 and 800 spaces (or more) that would serve the general public, as well as the courthouse and retail, commercial, and residential uses within the new development;

A boutique hotel with roughly 80 rooms and space for events;

A four-story addition to the courthouse that would include office space and more courtrooms;

An apartment component with three stories of one and two-bedroom units (but just 20 total), situated above retail.

According to a recent presentation, the retail space would total about 27,000 square feet, and office uses about 120,000 square feet. 

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Goodwyn Mills Cawood/City of Canton

Canton is the Cherokee County seat, with a quickly growing population of roughly 38,000. It serves as a gateway for much of metro Atlanta to the North Georgia Mountains in the northwest corner of the state. 

According to Canton Mayor Bill Grant, the next step will come in a couple of weeks, when the city council will review plans in greater detail at its annual retreat. More chances for public input are also forthcoming, according to the mayor’s announcement. 

Swing up to the gallery for more context and renderings. 

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Downtown Canton in the context of Atlanta's northern 'burbs. Google Maps

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Overview of a planned plaza area where North Street meets Brown Street in downtown Canton. Goodwyn Mills Cawood/City of Canton

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Subtitle Boutique hotel, residences, retail, large parking structure all on table in historic Canton

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Study finds Sandy Springs, Roswell more diverse than ATL. Huh? Josh Green Thu, 03/06/2025 - 14:23 If countless corporate relocations and press releases are any indication, the City of Atlanta’s diversity has become the equivalent of chamber of commerce gold in modern times. Think of Microsoft’s Atlantic Yards and U.S. Soccer’s National Training Center—just two examples of high-profile, jobs-producing projects that cited ATL’s diversity as a top reason to take root here. 

But when it comes to truly mixed demographics, Georgia’s capital city might not shine as brightly on a national scale as you’d expect. 

WalletHub, a personal finance website that examines city trends, recently slotted the City of Atlanta lower than some of its smaller, more affluent satellite cities on the 2025 Most Diverse Cities in America ranking. 

Analysts compared profiles of more than 500 of the largest U.S. cities across five major diversity categories—cultural, economic, religious, socioeconomic, and household—and 13 different metrics to come up with this year’s list. Data for the ranking were pulled from the most recent U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Religion Census. 

Based on those gauges, Sandy Springs ranks as the most diverse city in Georgia, finishing No. 43 overall with a score of 70.21 on a 100-point scale. 

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Not far behind is another north OTP suburb, Roswell, which landed at No. 49 with a score of 69.85. 

Both of the OTP cities ranked in the top 10 of all cities when it comes to religious diversity, according to WalletHub. For midsize cities nationally, Sandy Springs finished strongest of any place in Georgia in any category at No. 13. 

Considerably further down the list is the City of Atlanta (No. 74, scoring 69.24), with its strongest showings in the categories of religious diversity and socioeconomic diversity. (The latter makes sense for a city that's infamous for income inequality relative to big-city peers.) 

Among large cities (with 300,000 residents or more), Atlanta ranked No. 29, between Fresno and St. Paul, respectively. Arlington took the top slot in that category. 

How the City of Atlanta stacked up across all metrics in WalletHub's findings. WalletHub

The top three finishers of all cities on the diversity-o-meter were all Maryland towns close to Washington D.C.—Gaithersburg, Silver Spring, and Germantown, respectively—that scored high when it comes to language, race, and educational attainment. 

Across Georgia, other cities to make the diversity cut were Johns Creek (No. 91), Columbus (No. 104), Athens (No. 183), Augusta (No. 195), Macon (No. 223), Savannah (No. 231), and Albany (No. 374), per WalletHub’s findings. 

On a lighter note, WalletHub slotted Atlanta No. 4 on its Most Fun Cities in America list that published in December. Woo! 

The top 20 across all 500 places on the Most Diverse Cities in the U.S. (2025) ranking. WalletHub

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The top 20 across all 500 places on the Most Diverse Cities in the U.S. (2025) ranking. WalletHub

How the City of Atlanta stacked up across all metrics in WalletHub's findings. WalletHub

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Subtitle Atlanta does crack top 75 on 2025’s Most Diverse Cities in America ranking

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Photos: Shabby 1960s Atlanta motel reborn as affordable housing Josh Green Thu, 03/06/2025 - 08:28 As of last week, the first tenants have started moving into a Reynoldstown project that developers hope will provide an example of how outdated properties around Atlanta could spring back to life as supportive, affordable housing, helping the city’s less fortunate residents get back on track. 

It's called the Ralph David House

As illustrated in photography provided to Urbanize Atlanta, Stryant Construction converted the former Atlanta Motel property into 56 affordable housing apartments with some of the lowest rent caps for tenants—30 percent of the area median income—for new construction across the city. 

Situated where Moreland Avenue meets Interstate 20, the Ralph David House hosted a formal grand opening ceremony in December led by Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens. The adaptive-reuse conversion project had begun construction a year earlier. 

Motel interiors were taken down to the studs and redone, per development officials. Photos courtesy of Stryant Construction

The low-slung 1960s property at 277 Moreland Ave. had devolved into a magnet for unflattering reviews during its waning days as a motel. Guests complained that $50-per-night rooms were unkempt and infested with bed bugs—or worse.

Each Ralph David House apartment will be reserved for people who’ve been unhoused and are making less than 30 percent AMI. Rents and utility costs combined will be capped at 30 percent of each renter’s income, Stryant officials have said.

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Ralph David House will also offer wraparound services for formerly unhoused residents like three “rapid housing” initiatives around the city both open and in progress: The Melody downtown, the new 729 Bonaventure building in Old Fourth Ward, and a modular project in the pipeline near Atlantic Station. 

Those services will be provided in onsite offices, while elsewhere the property features a lounge for socializing, city officials have said. 

According to Terminus Design Group, the project’s architect of record, the old motel’s exterior received a facelift—fresh paint, windows, doors, amenity areas, and more—with a goal of improving its visibility from both Moreland Avenue and I-20.

Interiors have been renovated to the bones and outfitted with modern, multifamily finishes consistent with market-rate deals in the area, per the architecture firm.

A social worker’s office was installed onsite, and a half-dozen units were configured to be ADA compliant, with the rest designed to meet Fair Housing Guidelines, development officials have said. 

Stryant will remain onboard to handle all aspects of the property for the next 30 years, including management, according to Sugarman. 

Photos courtesy of Stryant Construction

Other partners on the motel conversion include Atlanta Housing, Invest Atlanta, Tandem Bank, Partners for Home, and Atlanta Affordable Housing Fund. 

City and Beltline officials, Reynoldstown neighborhood leadership, and three different Neighborhood Planning Units voiced support for the project in pre-development phases. 

In the gallery above, have a thorough look at how the Ralph David House project turned out—both inside and out. 

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The project's location at the northwest quadrant of the Moreland Avenue/Interstate 20 intersection. Google Maps

The Atlanta Motel property in Reynoldstown, as seen in March 2022.Google Maps

Overview of the Ralph David House property today. Photos courtesy of Stryant Construction

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Motel interiors were taken down to the studs and redone, per development officials. Photos courtesy of Stryant Construction

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Projected look of the motel conversion in early renderings. Terminus Design Group

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Why is transit ridership sinking in Atlanta and not other cities? Josh Green Wed, 03/05/2025 - 16:14 As avowed transit advocates, let us first count the bright spots on MARTA’s horizon: 

State-of-the-art new train cars with more open interiors (and ostensibly increased safety) are set to start rolling this year. The transit agency’s first bus rapid transit system—a five-mile route now called MARTA Rapid A-Line—is on pace to begin revenue service in late 2025. A sweeping overhaul of train stations across the system is ongoing. And return-to-office mandates for Atlanta’s droves of federal employees could bring MARTA new customers, especially downtown. 

So why are metro Atlantans shunning rail transit like few other places in the U.S. right now (if they are)?  

That’s according to new Federal Transit Administration data that show only two other cities, Cleveland and Los Angeles, saw bigger drops than MARTA in terms of transit ridership in 2024. 

What could be more concerning, according to an AJC analysis of the federal report this week, is that transit ridership grew by an average of 24 percent across systems nationally last year, while MARTA’s rail ridership numbers dipped by 6 percent—now back to less than half of pre-pandemic, 2019 ridership tallies. 

According to the federal data, MARTA’s bus, mobility, and even streetcar ridership tallies grew between 2023 and 2024. (Note: The Atlanta Streetcar was closed for maintenance for a significant portion of early 2023.) But MARTA’s rail ridership numbers—29.5 million trips total—dipped by more than three million trips in 2024. 

What gives?

A juxtaposition of MARTA's first CQ400 train to be operational on tracks (left) and a current railcar. Courtesy of MARTA

MARTA officials are adamant the federal tally is not an accurate reflection of how many Atlantans and visitors were actually riding trains around the city last year. 

Issues with recording customer trips, broken fare gates, and fare evasion are more to blame, per the transit agency. 

A MARTA spokesperson told the newspaper reporting issues began in late 2023 when rail ridership tallies started dipping, though other means of transit weren’t. MARTA has been working with its gates vendor, Cubic, to remedy a problem with recording trips—even when Breeze cards were used. Now, gates not reporting data have dipped considerably over the past month, the MARTA official told the AJC. (Before next year’s FIFA World Cup matches in Atlanta, MARTA hopes to have a new system installed at every station that allows riders to pay at gates with a mobile wallet or debit or credit card.) 

Some riders, including Atlanta City Council President Doug Shipman and Beltline Rail Now head Matthew Rao, have voiced concerns that faulty gates are just one ill plaguing MARTA trains these days. 

In a recent editorial on these pages, Rao said cleanliness, infrequent night and weekend trains, and general safety are concerns that could be tackled in relatively short order. Based on conversations with constituents, Shipman echoed those concerns in an AJC interview (in addition to bus route cancellations that erode rider trust, he said), pointing to “unreliability and low customer experience” as deeper problems that need addressed. 

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Subtitle New federal report on MARTA patronage is flawed, Atlanta’s transit agency contends

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Fresh visuals, rent prices released for posh new Midtown towers Josh Green Wed, 03/05/2025 - 13:12 Developers behind the largest mixed-use addition to Midtown’s skyline in 2025 have made no bones about it: They want a two-tower bet on Juniper Street to become one of Atlanta’s most prestigious addresses, in what they consider the Southeast’s most dynamic submarket. 

Today they unveiled the prices—and perks—to prove it. 

Spouting adjectives such as “unrivaled,” “unmatched,” and “unparalleled”—and perhaps justifiably so—an announcement and fresh renderings provided to Urbanize Atlanta today spell out what’s in store for The Juniper and The Reserve at Juniper, the two-tower, bronze-clad high-rise that’s beefed up Midtown’s skyline just west of Piedmont Park. 

Charleston-based Middle Street Partners and co-developers AECOM-Canyon Partners last month unveiled the official name for a Juniper Street development that’s been closely watched since it broke ground in summer 2022. Prices have been withheld until now, as pre-leasing has begun. 

The taller north tower is The Juniper, while the other is called The Reserve at Juniper; each offer different concepts that stress upscale, highly amenitized, market-rate urban living. 

The earliest availability for any apartment in either building is May 1, according to project officials. 

So what’ll it cost to live here? Buckle up, kids. 

An elevated courtyard at The Juniper. Courtesy of Middle Street Partners

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The foot-in-the-door option at The Juniper is a 510-square-foot studio floorplan. Those start at $1,896. Certainly not unheard of, for the neighborhood. 

In the same building, one-bedroom floorplans with 610 square feet are priced from $2,396 monthly.

Getting into a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment (starting at 1,148 square feet) at The Juniper is going to cost at least $4,568 monthly. 

Meanwhile, the least expensive option for living at The Reserve is $3,955 monthly. That gets a one-bedroom, one-bathroom flat with 900 square feet. 

Two-bedroom rentals with 1,290 square feet are priced from $5,419 per month at The Reserve. (Some larger two-bedroom plans climb to north of $9,000 per month.) 

And yes, the priciest living quarters in either building is The Reserve’s three-bedroom, three and ½ bathroom (plus den) option, which starts at $12,879 monthly for 2,240 square feet of pampered existence. That’s a corner-unit penthouse with 12-foot ceilings on the 33rd floor. 

The smallest, least expensive floorplan currently offered in either building. The Juniper

The priciest three-bedroom penthouse listed to date on Juniper Street.The Reserve at Juniper

Across Atlanta, the only pricier new apartment that jumps to mind is an Old Fourth Ward penthouse that listed for $15,645 monthly in 2023, but Apartments.com shows several options in newer buildings around the city asking more. 

Standout, borderline bonkers perks for the Juniper Street property, which is operated by Bozzuto, will include black car service, an around-the-clock “concierge team,” on-call massage therapists and personal trainers, pet grooming and walking, dry-cleaning and plant-watering services, and curated wellness events that include sound baths and sunset yoga sessions. 

Evening view of The Juniper's courtyard. Courtesy of Middle Street Partners

The Juniper's sky-high pool deck. Courtesy of Middle Street Partners

Both towers along Juniper Street were topped out by last summer. 

With 320 units in 37 stories, the taller Juniper building will see the full top floor dedicated to programmable amenity spaces, with a hot yoga studio, coworking suites, and a large fitness center. 

The Reserve at Juniper, meanwhile, is leaning more boutique, with 167 luxury apartments in 34 stories. Expect larger floorplans with top-flight finishes, a private rooftop pool, a cold plunge, salt and infrared saunas, and five-star services for tenants there, per the development team. 

Elsewhere in Atlanta, Middle Street has started delivering its flatiron-shaped 400 Bishop development near Atlantic Station’s Target in Loring Heights, with 274 apartments.

The company’s debut project in the city—the 323-unit The Boulevard at Grant Park, with a new Mellow Mushroom prototype at its base—opened in 2023 along a stretch of the Beltline’s Southside Trail corridor now closed for construction. 

On Juniper Street, the buildings that had housed two Midtown drinking and dining staples at the site—Einstein’s and Joe’s on Juniper—were razed in 2022, along with neighboring bungalows that’d been reshaped as businesses. The Metrotainment Cafes concepts, both hubs for Atlanta’s LGBTQ community, had operated on the block since the 1990s.

As designed by Atlanta-based Brock Hudgins firm, both bronze-clad towers on Juniper Street are intended to “bring warmth and beauty to the Midtown skyline,” developers have said.

 Naples, Fla.-based CID Design Group handled interior and brand designs, with nature-inspired themes nodding to Atlanta’s signature park nearby.  

At street level, two 5,000-square-foot retail spaces are being built out at the bases of both buildings, wrapping 11th and 12th street corners. 

Middle Street Partners; designs, Brock Hudgins Architects

For Midtown, the two-pronged Juniper Street project continues a building spree that’s stretched for more than a dozen years now. 

The subdistrict is expected to pack on another 15,000 square feet of retail space and nearly 1,100 more apartments between spring and fall this year, per a 2025 outlook recently compiled by Midtown Alliance.  

Find more context and visuals for the Juniper Street project in the gallery above. And ask yourself: Will the lifestyle, in this location, be worth the cost? 

The larger tower, in the foreground, and the project's stance over Juniper Street. Middle Street Partners; designs, Brock Hudgins Architects

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An elevated courtyard at The Juniper. Courtesy of Middle Street Partners

Fitness at The Juniper. Courtesy of Middle Street Partners

The Juniper's sky-high pool deck. Courtesy of Middle Street Partners

Evening view of The Juniper's courtyard. Courtesy of Middle Street Partners

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Sample bath at The Reserve at Juniper. Courtesy of Middle Street Partners

Shower and vanity example at The Reserve at Juniper. Courtesy of Middle Street Partners

Rooftop pool over the southernmost tower, The Reserve at Juniper. Courtesy of Middle Street Partners

Sample interior in the taller The Juniper tower. Courtesy of Middle Street Partners

Penthouse kitchen at The Reserve at Juniper. Courtesy of Middle Street Partners

Penthouse bathroom at The Reserve at Juniper. Courtesy of Middle Street Partners

Plans for a penthouse kitchen at the shorter, more boutique building The Reserve at Juniper. Courtesy of Middle Street Partners

How the two-tower project is expected to look from Piedmont Park, where it's also now visible from the banks of Lake Clara Meer. Middle Street Partners; designs, Brock Hudgins Architects

Middle Street Partners; designs, Brock Hudgins Architects

The larger tower, in the foreground, and the project's stance over Juniper Street. Middle Street Partners; designs, Brock Hudgins Architects

Subtitle Juniper Street project’s adjective bonanza includes “unrivaled,” “unmatched,” “unparalleled”

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In downtown Roswell, 'transformative' mixed-use project moves forward Josh Green Wed, 03/05/2025 - 08:24 A modified but still “transformative” infill project that aims to broaden downtown Roswell’s walkable appeal, living options, and commercial offerings continues to make progress, city officials report. 

The Roswell City Council and project champion Mayor Kurt Wilson unanimously approved a Scope of Work agreement last week with the city’s Downtown Development Authority that puts framework in place for what’s called, for now, the Hill Street Mixed-Use Development. 

The project calls for reshaping low-density parcels adjacent to Roswell City Hall into walkable, pedestrian-oriented new construction—and hundreds of parking spaces near a growing OTP historic district where finding a place to park can be tough. 

The recent SOW agreement formally defines the Roswell DDA’s role in bringing the Hill Street project to fruition. That will include development analysis, coordinating budgets, and project bonding, in addition to other duties. City officials have agreed to cover the DDA’s fees and costs in return. 

The changes would come on Hill Street, between Atlanta and Ellis streets. That’s the block immediately south of Roswell City Hall, roughly a block from the shops, eateries, and watering holes lining downtown’s Canton Street. 

The downtown Hill Street redevelopment area in question, with Canton Street attractions shown at top. Google Maps

The city council in December signed an agreement with Atlanta-based Atlantic Companies to develop the Hill Street project. 

Should ground break at the Hill Street site, it would be a long time coming. 

An earlier multifamily development plan gained city approval in 2019, but Wilson in 2022 helped lead a redesign that cuts back on residential density while expanding the commercial footprint, per city officials. 

More specifically, today’s Hill Street plans call for 143 multifamily apartments alongside 14 to 16 townhomes. That would reduce density to 24 units per acre from the originally approved 74 units per acre, per the city. 

Elsewhere, plans for commercial space have been beefed up from about 10,000 to 80,000 square feet for restaurants, retail, and office tenants. 

The city also plans to build 485 parking spaces—in a new deck and on surface streets—for residents, tenants, and guests. Parking revenue would be channeled into city coffers.  

Looking north across the block in question toward Canton Street, with Roswell City Hall shown at top right. Courtesy of City of Roswell

In Atlanta, Atlantic Companies’ recent work includes the 8West mixed-use complex in West Midtown and 25-story Reflection student housing building downtown. The company is also a partner in an infill, senior-housing venture planned just north of Underground Atlanta. 

A city spokesperson tells Urbanize Atlanta renderings or other visuals for the Hill Street project are not yet available. Ditto for a timeline on when those materials will be ready for public release. 

Wilson called the Hill Street vision an example of “smart growth” and “thoughtful placemaking” that will help keep taxes low for Roswell residents. “This innovative development project will generate new revenue streams while revitalizing a key downtown area,” noted the mayor in this week’s SOW announcement, “making Roswell an even better place to live, work, and visit.”

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The downtown Hill Street redevelopment area in question, with Canton Street attractions shown at top. Google Maps

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Images: Another project pitched for site south of downtown ATL Josh Green Tue, 03/04/2025 - 16:03 One glance at aerial photos of Mechanicsville could ding the argument that Atlanta is physically full right now. 

Not surprisingly, another potential project aiming to take advantage of open land in the historic neighborhood just south of downtown has come to light. 

Mableton-based Parton Property Solutions has listed for sale a .7-acre site it owns at 717 Pryor St. in Mechanicsville that calls for 13 townhomes on a vacant corner. 

The site is roughly four blocks due west of Summerhill’s Georgia Avenue commercial strip and a block south of retail along Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard. Georgia State University’s Center Parc Stadium is also nearby, just over the downtown Connector. 

Looking north, the Mechanicsville site's proximity to downtown and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Photo by Chris Lawery; courtesy of Parton Property Solutions

The asking price is $1.35 million for the land and development plans by Place Maker Design and Civil Ace Engineering, along with building permits and other paperwork clearing the way for development, including necessary R-5 zoning approvals. Parton Property Solutions is also open to developing the project alongside a capital investor, per sellers.  

According to data provided by listing agent Leanne Allen of Keller Williams Realty West Atlanta, the Mechanicsville townhomes would total 2,654 square feet (both interior and unheated exterior spaces) and would be priced at $550,000. (One townhome would be about 1,100 square feet larger, priced at $725,000.) 

All townhomes would have four bedrooms and four and ½ bathrooms across four stories, topped with rooftop decks. 

Plans for four-story units at 717 Pryor St. in Mechanicsville. Place Maker Design

Looking east, overview of the .7-acre site in question, with Center Parc Stadium shown over the Connector. Photo by Chris Lawery; courtesy of Parton Property Solutions

The project would be located immediately south of another newer Mechanicsville townhome venture, the 11-unit Vertical Row

Other recent, for-sale residential projects in the neighborhood include the MetroVille duplexes, the Point 5 project, and a proposal called Signature at Pryor that would rise just north of the 717 Pryor St. site. 

Find more context and visuals for the Pryor Street corner in the gallery above. 

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Civil Ace Engineering; courtesy of Parton Property Solutions

Looking north, the Mechanicsville site's proximity to downtown and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Photo by Chris Lawery; courtesy of Parton Property Solutions

Site plan for 717 Pryor St. Civil Ace Engineering; courtesy of Parton Property Solutions

Plans for four-story units at 717 Pryor St. in Mechanicsville. Place Maker Design

Looking east, overview of the .7-acre site in question, with Center Parc Stadium shown over the Connector. Photo by Chris Lawery; courtesy of Parton Property Solutions

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Subtitle Mechanicsville proposal would claim corner lot near Center Parc Stadium, Summerhill retail

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Global developer closes on land to continue Chamblee building spree Josh Green Tue, 03/04/2025 - 13:34 Chamblee’s multifamily growth spurt is set to continue, but not in blocks around the ITP city’s historic core as with other recent projects

Officials with Charleston-based developer Greystar, considered the largest operator of apartments in the U.S., announced today they’ve closed on land to build two mid-rise apartment buildings just inside the Interstate 285 Perimeter in Chamblee. 

Greystar plans to start construction next month on an upscale multifamily venture called Marlowe Chamblee with roughly 300 units. 

Cleared of modest single-family homes, the Parsons Drive sites in question are tucked behind Porsche Atlanta Perimeter, where Peachtree Industrial Boulevard meets Interstate 285. 

Planned look of Marlowe Chamblee's outdoor amenities area. Courtesy of Greystar

The Marlowe brand is considered Greystar’s “suburban luxury line.” Another example called Marlowe Brookwood has recently delivered in Austell, in Atlanta’s western suburbs.  

John Roberson, Greystar Development’s senior managing director, described Chamblee as a “fast-growing” region of the metro in an announcement, adding that Marlowe Chamblee’s proximity to Assembly Studios in nearby Doraville will be a selling point. 

Greystar’s project will be the multifamily component of a much larger, nearly 31-acre Toll Brothers mixed-use project called Chamblee Park. 

The Chamblee City Council voted in October 2021 to unanimously approve plans for Chamblee Park that called for more than 700 new townhomes, houses, and apartments, plus about 20,000 square feet of retail space. 

Toll Brothers is calling its portion of the development Silverton, a community of single-family houses and townhomes with prices starting from the low $600,000s.

The 4034/4043 Parsons Drive site in question near Interstate 285, in relation to downtown Doraville and Chamblee. Google Maps

The broader, cleared 30-acre Chamblee Park site. The multifamily component will be situated near the Porsche dealership at bottom. Google Maps

According to Greystar officials, Marlowe Chamblee is scheduled to deliver in summer 2027.

Today the company operates nearly $315 billion in real estate investments across 250 global markets, including more than 1 million units/beds, per Greystar officials. 

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The 4034/4043 Parsons Drive site in question near Interstate 285, in relation to downtown Doraville and Chamblee. Google Maps

Planned look of Marlowe Chamblee's outdoor amenities area. Courtesy of Greystar

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At site of Atlanta's last housing project, redevelopment set to move forward Josh Green Tue, 03/04/2025 - 08:18 For the first time since demolition 15 years ago, the site of Atlanta’s last major family housing project is expected to be teeming with life—and promises of new attainable living options—this week. 

A formal groundbreaking is scheduled Wednesday for the first phase of redevelopment at the long-abandoned Bowen Homes site, a $63.6-million initiative set to produce 151 new units. 

Backed largely by federal funding secured in 2023, the Bowen Homes project calls for a mixed-income community with several new buildings and a greenspace component—and for much more development later. 

Back in 2009, Bowen Homes became the last of Atlanta’s housing projects to be razed, and the site has been vacant since. The 74 acres in question are located just inside the Interstate 285 Perimeter, near the intersection of James Jackson Parkway and Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway.

Dignitaries including Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, Atlanta Housing president and CEO Terri Lee, Invest Atlanta CEO Dr. Eloisa Klementich, and HUD Southeast deputy regional administrator Tiffany Cobb are scheduled to attend the Wednesday groundbreaking ceremony, officials said this week. 

The acreage in question in relation to Interstate 285, at left, and Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway. Google Maps

Invest Atlanta leaders have predicted the project will transform the surrounding Brookview Heights neighborhood and revitalize “a historically neglected and environmentally stressed area… into a place of natural, social, and economic regeneration,” according to a project update last year.  

Of the 151 apartments planned for the initial phase, 48 will be reserved for households earning 30 percent of the area median income, while 49 will be capped at 60 percent AMI. The rest will rent at market-rate, according to Invest Atlanta.

Other aspects of the redevelopment call for a Community Resources Center and Innovation Hub that will offer Bowen Homes’ residents job-training opportunities and affordable commercial space, per officials. 

Planned look of two buildings totaling 114 units in Bowen Homes' initial phase. McCormack Baron Salazar, via Invest Atlanta

Bowen Homes was built in the early 1960s as a model multifamily community in what was then considered Atlanta’s western suburbs, counting its own library, school, and eventually some 4,000 residents.

By 2008, the 650 apartments spread across 102 buildings had devolved into a sore spot of crime and a magnet for the drug trade—typifying the ills of the American public housing experiment. According to Atlanta Housing, Bowen Homes experienced 168 violent crimes in just a six-month period that year, including five murders.

But signs of hope for the property have come in more recent years. 

An Atlanta Housing presentation from 2021 showing the former Bowen Homes site in relation to housing deemed in good condition (green) and poor condition (red), with color-coded variations between. Atlanta Housing

In late 2022, Atlanta Housing selected a redevelopment team called Bowen District Developers—led by The Benoit Group and McCormack Baron Salazar real estate companies—to bring the area back to life.

Atlanta Housing and officials with Dickens' administration formally applied in early 2023 for a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant. 

In the summer of that year, HUD announced a $40 million federal grant to kickstart Atlanta’s Bowen Choice Neighborhood program, a revitalization effort for the former Bowen Homes and surrounding Westside properties. 

The HUD grant aims to help the City of Atlanta eventually transform the bones of Bowen Homes into more than 2,000 housing units for renters and homebuyers, officials have said. 

The project’s considerable scope calls for rebuilding the Bowen Homes site and next-door neighborhood Carey Park, along with a section of Almond Park.

The 74-acre site's proximity to Westside neighborhoods. Atlanta Housing

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