Plans are coming into clearer focus for what’s poised to be a new interstate-adjacent Atlanta landmark near Midtown and Buckhead.  

Officials with the Employees’ Retirement System of Georgia have shared a project rendering and details for a 16-story office tower that recently broke ground at 1715 Northside Drive NW, just south of Interstate 75 in Loring Heights. 

Brasfield & Gorrie construction company and developer TPA Group have wrapped demolition and begun site work on the 250,000-square-foot office project that will house the headquarters of two Georgia retirement systems, replacing a longstanding strip club, a gas station, and other properties.  

According to Jim Potvin, ERSGA executive director, the building will count seven parking levels—one below grade, the rest above. Above that will be the quarter-million square feet for offices spread across nine floors, for a total above-grade building height of 15 floors. 

Courtesy of ERSGA

The tower will be the new home of ERSGA, the Teachers Retirement System, and the state’s Division of Investment Services. 

“Together we will occupy six of the office floors,” Potvin wrote via email. “The remaining three floors will be leased to [an] outside tenant,” or multiple tenants. 

Both pension agencies are currently housed at the Two Northside 75 office complex, located just south of the new building site off Northside Drive.  

Brasfield & Gorrie forecasts vertical construction to begin at the site in March next year, with completion scheduled for March 2028. 

Extent of the properties in question in early 2023, before the 12-acre Northside Drive site was cleared. Google Maps

Totaling 12 acres, the Northside Drive site was assembled from separate properties where the Diamond Club, a Shell gas station, and years ago Waffle House had operated. 

The former strip club and its parking lots, reportedly purchased for $15 million, constituted the bulk of the property. 

A fire at the gas station—sparked by a motorcycle, per firefighters—heavily damaged the Shell property in May last year. The former strip club was demolished last fall.

The 1715 Northside Drive site (in red) in relation to Northside Drive landmarks and I-75, northwest of Midtown. Google Maps

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