Central Atlanta Progress | Urbanize Atlanta

Feds yank $151M from Stitch project; leaders vow it's still happening

Leadership: Highway-capping park to be construction-ready next year, with renewed support from GDOT, mayor

August 6, 2025 by Josh Green

Federal cuts threaten to kill Atlanta's highway-capping Stitch project

Legislation could pull $157M from long-planned park, infrastructure initiative, Warnock’s office warns

June 2, 2025 by Josh Green

Downtown's 'Museum of the Future' takes step toward happening

School partnership to form basis for bringing $100M FutureVerse concept to reality, leaders say

May 28, 2025 by Josh Green

Portion of building near Centennial Park converted to affordable housing

Following TAD gift, Generation Atlanta capping rents for more than one in five apartments

April 22, 2025 by Josh Green

UPDATED: Sweet Auburn’s mixed-income Front Porch set to officially debut

Project in historic Atlanta district includes furnished, flex housing for young professionals, students

April 8, 2025 by Josh Green

Fresh map puts $5.2B downtown development boom in perspective

Where 5,000 housing units (or more) is expected to materialize in coming years

March 13, 2025 by Josh Green

Phase one components of downtown’s Stitch start to emerge

Officials: Highway-capping park project has tallied $42M; public visioning session planned soon

October 26, 2023 by Josh Green

Report: Mixed-use Hilton planned to rise over downtown's Stitch

Mix of hotel rooms, apartments pitched for site next to highway-capping park, Civic Center MARTA station

August 23, 2023 by Josh Green

Businesspeople push back against ‘Rapid Housing’ homeless project

Shipping-container village on Forsyth Street would set area back, opponents say

August 21, 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

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

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

What should South Downtown’s transportation future look like?

As district’s development boom begins, Central Atlanta Progress, ATL Downtown Improvement District release survey to gather 2 cents

January 20, 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

Downtown Atlanta is getting its own neighborhood festival

Loft tour, celebration set to return in full next month after hiatus of more than a decade

October 26, 2022 by Josh Green

Fresh glimpses: Front Porch project underway in Sweet Auburn

Along Auburn Avenue, construction continues on schedule at Atlanta's “premiere equity project”

October 24, 2022 by Josh Green

Report: Construction on downtown's 'Stitch' could start in 2024

But Central Atlanta Progress estimates the highway-capping park wouldn't be complete for a decade—at the earliest

September 21, 2022 by Josh Green