With each passing week, Tech Square is looking more like the education-focused mini city within Midtown it was always meant to be.

After breaking ground in October 2023, Tech Square’s third and final development phase is topped out and rounding streetside social spaces into shape across a full Midtown block, as this latest installment of Atlanta aerial tours illustrates. 

Those spaces will include a large courtyard fronting West Peachtree Street (the outline is now visible from above) described by Georgia Tech as a lush “urban oasis” and an “inviting place for students, faculty, or anyone working in Tech Square to study, work, or meet.” 

Renderings indicate the courtyard’s scope will be unique among Midtown's street-level, outdoor social spaces in the area. 

The project's eastern flank where it meets the large courtyard space below, at left. Urbanize Atlanta

How the project’s courtyard, positioned at its easternmost base, is expected to look and function where West Peachtree and 5th streets meet. EskewDumezRipple; RJTR; Georgia Tech

Around the corner on 5th Street will be another airy congregation space called The Porch, positioned along wide sidewalks. 

Phase 3 will include two buildings totaling 416,500 square feet, mostly filled with educational space across the street from another Georgia Tech-owned property undergoing a tech-focused repurposing, The Biltmore on West Peachtree Street. The block in question is bounded by West Peachtree, Spring, and 5th streets, and Biltmore Place. It’s one block north of Tech Square’s Coda, a John Portman and Associates-designed office tower.

One goal of the third phase, as project heads have said, is to enliven streets with retail and student activity, creating a more cohesive urban district where a parking lot and low-rise offices were before. The current construction schedule calls for fully opening it for business in June next year. 

Tech Square—an education, retail, and dining district—opened its initial phase in the early 2000s. Considered the last phase, the current 828 W. Peachtree Street expansion project has been in design or undergoing site preparations since 2019.

Northeast views across the Phase 3 site today. Urbanize Atlanta

How Tech Square's third phase meets Spring and 5th streets today, with the Commons area at the center base and retail at bottom left. The Biltmore Innovation Center/Georgia Tech

Named for philanthropists Penny and William “Bill” George, the 18-story George Tower will be home to the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, in addition to other programs. The second building, the 14-story Scheller Tower, will house Tech’s graduate and executive education programs in the Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business, according to Georgia Tech.

The two structures are being tied together by a central, communal zone and pathway that continues through the building forms, according to architecture firm EskewDumezRipple.

Find a drone tour and much closer look at where Phase 3 stands today—and how it’s expected to function in summer 2026—in the gallery above. 

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