Peeking over the southwestern fringes of Piedmont Park like a curious neighbor, Midtown’s latest glassy residential high-rise has topped out.

Closer to the building’s base levels, developers say design improvements are also on the way.

The 32-story Modera Parkside project officially topped out last week (with an amenities level on the roof) at 180 10th St. in Midtown, according to Phil Carson, vice president of development for Mill Creek Residential, the project developer.

Carson noted that renderings unveiled in December, however, no longer depict what the tower’s final façade conditions will be.

An updated view from the south, per a rendering released to Urbanize Atlanta in December. The building's final appearance is being revised. Mill Creek Residential; designs, Gresham Smith

The Modera Parkside project as seen earlier this month during the Atlanta Dogwood Festival. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta

Design changes meant to enhance the aesthetic of the building’s parking podium along 10th Street have been implemented, and Mill Creek is also exploring options for large murals on both a portion of the parking podium and vertically along the eastern façade, facing Piedmont Park, per Carson. [CLARIFICATION: 3:32 p.m., April 24: Carson sends a clarification the mural will not face west, but east.] 

“We do not and will not have renderings factoring these new additions,” Carson wrote via email, “but they will be completed as the building progresses.”

Joining a dozen other Modera-branded projects across metro Atlanta, Modera Parkside broke ground in fall 2022 at a site that had been a fenced-off hole since the Great Recession, when a 19-story condo proposal called Onyx was hit with a lawsuit and ultimately failed to take off.

Mill Creek officials have said the project will add 361 apartments to Midtown’s densifying core, with units ranging from studios to three-bedrooms with dens.

The latest rendering depicting the project's west facade, toward Peachtree Street. Developers have said a mural will be applied here. Mill Creek Residential; designs, Gresham Smith

Early plans for how retail and entries are expected to meet 10th Street. Other aspects of the facade are being revised. Mill Creek Residential; designs, Gresham Smith

Those will include rental penthouses on top floors with what developers have described as unencumbered and preserved views of Atlanta’s skyline and Piedmont Park “on the very edge of high-rise zoning.”

The Midtown tower will join another Modera-branded complex near the BeltLine in Reynoldstown, a two-phase project in Buckhead, and Modera Decatur as Mill Creek’s latest finished ITP endeavors. Elsewhere, the company has started work on a 402-unit community called Modera Southside Trail in Peoplestown and Modera Westside Trail in English Avenue.

Mill Creek also built the highly amenitized, 29-story Modera Midtown on 8th Street near the downtown Connector seven years ago.

Plans for the Modera Parkside amenities package include a rooftop pool deck and gym, a golf simulator, a clubroom with skyline views, fire pits high off the street, valet dry cleaning, coworking stations, a cybercafe, EV charging stations, and bike storage, plus dedicated dog runs and a pet spa.

The building will also include 451 parking spaces, according to Midtown Alliance.

At street level, expect 3,400 square feet of retail for a signature restaurant with outdoor seating along 10th Street. That should add life to what’s been a blank spot in the otherwise vibrant street for ages.

According to Carson, current timelines call for Modera Parkside to open its first units in December, with construction finishing in the third quarter of 2025.

South views from the highest floors. Mill Creek Residential; designs, Gresham Smith

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