Images: Two-tower Midtown build has (partially) topped out

One component of a two-tower Midtown project that’s been closely followed by Atlanta development hawks for more than three years has reached its ultimate height.

The 1081 Juniper St. project—led by Charleston-based developer Middle Street Partners, alongside joint venture partner AECOM-Canyon Partners—has been named 12th and Juniper. [CORRECTION: 6:47 p.m., July 23: Middle Street officials reach out to clarify the "12th and Juniper" name is a placeholder; tower heights are also one story higher than previously reported.] 

Johnson Bazzel, Middle Street’s president of development, tells Urbanize Atlanta the project’s southernmost tower—the one nearest to downtown, or the left if viewed from Piedmont Park—has recently topped out.

The tower to the north will rise roughly 20 feet taller than its sibling and is still climbing, according to Bazzel.  

Both buildings have staked a visible presence over highly patronized Midtown places, including numerous blocks along Peachtree Street and the Lake Clara Meer area in Piedmont Park, located a few blocks east. Plans call for a total of 487 apartments in both towers.

Bazzel said the first 12th and Juniper apartments are expected to deliver in February, but rent prices won’t be finalized until likely early 2025.

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

“We have had positive momentum, but both [spaces] remain available,” Bazzel wrote via email this week.

The larger North tower will climb to 400 feet, offering 320 units across 37 stories; the South tower topped out at 380 feet, with 34 stories, larger floorplans, and what’s designed to feel like a more boutique offering of only 167 units, the development has said.

According to Midtown Alliance, the 12th and Juniper project will also include 690 parking spaces.

The buildings that had housed two Midtown drinking and dining staples at the site—Einstein’s and Joe’s on Juniper—were razed two years ago, 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.

Demolition and infrastructure work at the Juniper Street site between 11th and 12th streets started in mid-2022, but developers didn’t declare the project officially underway until they’d secured $245 million in construction financing in December that year.

The development team also includes construction lenders Bank OZK and Related Fund Management, general contractor Brasfield & Gorrie, interior designer CID Design Group, and Brock Hudgins Architects.

Elsewhere in Atlanta, Middle Street has topped out its flatiron-shaped 400 Bishop development near Atlantic Station’s Target in Loring Heights, with 274 apartments in the pipeline there. And the company’s debut project in the city—the 323-unit The Boulevard at Grant Park—opened last year along a stretch of the BeltLine’s Southside Trail corridor now closed for construction. Mellow Mushroom plans to open a 3,400-square-foot, modernized version of its restaurants at that project this summer, with upgraded tech, an updated menu, and patios fronting the BeltLine corridor.  

Middle Street officials have said the Midtown project will help reshape the northeast portion of district’s skyline, at a location they’ve called “the preeminent residential address in all of Atlanta—and by extension one of the best in the Southeast.”

In the gallery above, find a tour of construction progress today and a preview of what’s to come.

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