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Site of planned Buckhead Village tower shows signs of life

Pharr Road luxury high-rise property remains cove of boarded-up buildings for now

December 22, 2025 by Josh Green

'Surgical deconstruction' phase at MARTA's main transit hub begins

Five Points forecast calls for more than a year of demo work ahead, reports construction firm

November 19, 2025 by Josh Green

Old Fourth Ward

Photos: Six months later, Atlanta Medical Center is largely rubble

Demolition at 22-acre Old Fourth Ward site setting stage for redevelopment now coined "BLVDNEXT"

November 17, 2025 by Josh Green

Next phase of MARTA’s 'Five Points Transformation' to begin next month

Access to transit system’s biggest, busiest station to soon be closed from Peachtree Street, elsewhere

September 22, 2025 by Josh Green

Virginia-Highland

At Amsterdam Walk, 'deeper affordable housing' piece moves forward

Studio rents to start from $1,000 at contested Beltline build, per Invest Atlanta funding recap

September 11, 2025 by Josh Green

At long last, groundbreaking nears for downtown affordable housing block

In shadow of Atlanta City Hall, mixed-use Trinity Central Flats has been four years in the making

August 26, 2025 by Josh Green

Downtown affordable housing build finally shows signs of life

Trinity Central Flats project planned for vacant site called one of downtown's most convenient locations

October 10, 2023 by Josh Green

$10M awarded for Stitch project as timeline comes into focus

Funding from Eastside TAD would go toward "preliminary engineering activities"

July 21, 2023 by Josh Green

Images: Vision for remade Bankhead MARTA station comes into focus

Final community engagement meeting for MARTA’s transit-oriented redevelopment scheduled next week

June 8, 2023 by Josh Green

New promo emerges for downtown's highway-capping Stitch project

Atlanta mayor to Washington, D.C. congregation: "Now is the time for change”

June 1, 2023 by Josh Green

MARTA wants your 2 cents on Bankhead station's extreme makeover

Public sessions this month to help “frame the master-plan process”—with or without Microsoft next door

April 6, 2023 by Josh Green

City Council calls for audit of More MARTA program; MARTA fires back

Councilmembers call review of expansion initiative necessary, but MARTA blasts move as “disappointing and disingenuous”

March 21, 2023 by Josh Green

Downtown's 'Stitch' concept scores another boost of federal cash

Project meant to weave Connector-divided downtown back together lands one of first Reconnecting Communities program grants

February 28, 2023 by Josh Green

Atlanta mayor vows to protect forest around controversial police complex

In wake of fatal shooting, Atlanta, DeKalb leaders say public safety training center—aka, "Cop City"—will spur business, boost jobs

January 31, 2023 by Josh Green

UPDATED: More MARTA expansion plans to fall drastically short. Now what?

Report: 17-project list faces insurmountable funding shortfall, declared impossible by MARTA brass

January 26, 2023 by Josh Green

Downtown's highway-capping park concept launches (useful) website

New Stitch info source provides cost updates, breakdown of park sections, history

November 16, 2022 by Josh Green

Downtown's Stitch proposal scores largest federal investment to date

But $1.2M is drop in the bucket for greenspace project described as transformative

October 28, 2022 by Josh Green

MARTA picks team for Westside's first station redevelopment

Mixed-use plans at Bankhead station call for nearly 500 new homes, with some reserved as affordable

October 14, 2022 by Josh Green