2024 Atlanta 500: Real Estate & Design

2024 Atlanta 500: Real Estate & Design

These are Atlanta's 500 most powerful leaders. We spent months consulting experts and sorting through nominations to get a list of the city's most influential people—from artists to chefs to philanthropists to sports coaches and corporate CEOs. In this section, we focus on architecture and design, commercial contractors, commercial real estate brokers, commercial real estate sponsors, residential real estate brokers, and residential real estate developers.
Here’s What We Know about plans for the Amsterdam Walk redevelopment

Here’s what we know about plans for the Amsterdam Walk redevelopment

Wedged between Monroe Drive and Piedmont Park, Amsterdam Walk is a quirky commercial area populated by about two-dozen small businesses. The BeltLine-adjacent shopping center is slated for a major overhaul by Atlanta developer Portman Holdings. Here are renderings for the project and what we know so far.
Ask Atlanta: What’s the status of the refurb of Spaghetti Junction’s abandoned Presidential Hotel?

Ask Atlanta: What’s the status of the refurb of Spaghetti Junction’s abandoned Presidential Hotel?

At this point, it’s not just rundown. Not merely blighted, or even postapocalyptic. It’s like a 15-story set for one of the Saw movies—all bleak corridors, scary shadows, busted concrete, and bad graffiti. And unfortunately, the former Presidential Hotel serves as a sort of cylindrical front door for not just DeKalb County but all of ITP Atlanta, at least for anyone headed down from, say, Lilburn, Buford, or Charlotte. It’s been called one of the metro’s most visible buildings and one of its worst eyesores.
A new picture of downtown Atlanta

There’s a new picture of downtown Atlanta emerging—but who will it be for?

The excitement about new development obscures an awkward fact that the city and developers have to reckon with: Downtown already has more buildings than it has people who want to occupy them. It already has more road, rail, and bus capacity than any eastern U.S. downtown south of Washington, D.C. On weekdays, there are plenty of people there. The problem is that, at 5 p.m. on Fridays, the place clears out. Downtown Atlanta is often filled with a large, diverse group of people, but not many of them are residents.
What makes a good downtown?

What makes a good downtown?

Darin Givens—cofounder of ThreadATL, a nonprofit advocacy organization that aims to influence city planning and policy—explains why this cross-section of Forsyth and Poplar streets in the Fairlie-Poplar District has it all.
Using aging downtown offices to create a more livable Atlanta

Can we use aging downtown offices to create a more livable Atlanta?

Eviscerating a century-old office building and refashioning it into apartments is no easy feat. Older offices are nonpliable, stubborn things, riddled with secret problems and outdated floor plans. But the hassle was worth it for Centennial Yards Company, the developer behind a 162-unit project called the Lofts at Centennial Yards South, a remake of half of the long-vacant Norfolk Southern Buildings.
2023 Atlanta 500: Real Estate

2023 Atlanta 500: Real Estate

These are Atlanta's 500 most powerful leaders. We spent months consulting experts and sorting through nominations to get a list of the city's most influential people—from artists to chefs to philanthropists to sports coaches and corporate CEOs. In this section, we focus on architecture and design, commercial contractors, commercial real estate brokers, commercial real estate sponsors, residential real estate brokers, and residential real estate developers.
Avenue East Cobb is getting a refresh. Here’s a peak at the plans for the Marietta shopping center.

Avenue East Cobb is getting a refresh. Here’s a peek at the plans for the Marietta shopping center.

The developers behind Atlantic Station and Colony Square are redesigning the Marietta shopping center. Here’s what it will look like.
Charlie Harper Paradise Baptist Church

Atlanta’s churches are now hot real estate property, creating opportunity and dilemmas

As land values skyrocket, Atlanta churches are falling for development left and right. But is cashing in and moving on really a sin?
Winners Circle Park Forsyth County

Dynamic sports, dining complex bound for Georgia’s fastest-growing county

Winners Circle Park, a fusion of dining and basically every sport outside of auto racing and boxing, is expected to break ground in Forsyth County by late summer. The privately funded project is expected to cost upwards of $150 million.

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