Photos: Atlanta Beltline's latest new section is short but sweet

A few blocks from Atlantic Station, the Beltline’s first new Northwest Trail section to open is a bit of an island, as multi-use trails go. But it won’t be for long, should Beltline construction scheduling come to fruition. 

Its unconnected status doesn’t mean this short stretch of Northwest Trail-Segment 3 isn’t a lovely place to visit. It includes Monday Night Brewery’s The Grove project, an adaptive-reuse taproom, pizza joint, and leafy outdoor space that opened two months ago near Atlanta Waterworks. 

The Northwest Trail will eventually link the Westside up to Buckhead. The first open piece stretches from Northside Drive (or almost) to Trabert Avenue.  

Monday Night Brewing, founded in 2011, got its start in a formerly abandoned warehouse on dead-end Trabert Avenue that’s now adjacent to The Grove. Along with its two Atlanta locations (another Beltline-neighboring brewery operates at the Lee + White district), Monday Night Brewing has outposts in Birmingham, Knoxville, Nashville, and Charlotte.

Features of The Grove include 17,000 square feet of outdoor communal space (beneath 62 preserved and newly planted native trees) with multiple fire pits; a 7,400-square-foot taproom with seasonal cocktails and 30 taps; an outdoor amphitheater for community gatherings and live music; two Italian-built ovens for house-made pizzas; and a 20-foot outdoor LED TV screen on a hillside. 

A new morning setup—coffee, pastries, and breakfast sandwiches—is also being offered. The original Monday Night taproom is being kept for private events and expanding beer production, per company officials. 

The Berkeley Park building was previously used as a storage warehouse, according to 2024 filings.  

The adjacent Beltline Segment 3 section in question will eventually span 1.2 miles, starting near Monday Night Brewing and crossing under Interstate 75 at Tanyard Creek. Beltline leadership says that section is fully designed, in final permitting stages, and scheduled to be bid out for construction in roughly the next six months. 

Meanwhile, west of The Grove, Beltline and city officials are planning an official ribbon-cutting Thursday for Northwest Trail-Segment 5 in Blandtown, introducing new off-street connectivity to several areas in the neighborhood. 

Segment 5 takes the Beltline from its temporary end point—where the Westside Trail terminates at Huff Road and Marietta Boulevard today—on a northeastern trajectory to Ellsworth Industrial Boulevard, before ending at the intersection of English and Culpepper streets. That’s a distance of .7 miles.

Beltline officials say the Thursday event will also double as a groundbreaking ceremony for another new Northwest Trail section, Segment 4’s first phase. That .9-mile piece will branch off Segment 5 and bring the trail across Howell Mill Road, connecting to the open section alongside The Grove.  

However, Beltline officials report that construction won’t immediately begin on Segment 4 west of Howell Mill Road, where work on obtaining necessary real estate continues. 

All told, the Northwest Trail will be built in five sections, the longest of them 1.2 miles. It’s long been considered among the most complex stretches of the mainline Beltline to put together. 

Once finished, the 4.3-mile Northwest Trail will link together another 12 neighborhoods, spanning from Blandtown to Collier Hills, Brookwood, and the Lindbergh/Morosgo communities, according to the Beltline’s tally.

Swing up to the gallery for a rainy-night photo tour of the first new Northwest Trail piece to officially open—and its connected Beltline pitstop, Monday Night Brewing’s The Grove.

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