Photos: Buckhead's AC Hotel, Residences at Phipps Progress

With mall construction wrapping up, work continues around the parking lots

By Michael Kahn Mar 24, 2016, 11:20am EDT

Windows are installed and paint is going up at the boxy seven-story modern hotel. — The under-construction AC Hotel.

Phipps Plaza is pushing hard to transform from simply a high-end mall to a complete "lifestyle center" featuring upscale residences, a European-style hotel, and new dining options.

While work is wrapping up on the first phase of the mall renovation, there's plenty of construction activity going on all around its parking lots as an AC Hotel and The Domain at Phipps rise from what were formerly wooded lots along Wieuca Road, just off Peachtree Road. We checked out the progress and found that while the hotel could potentially be open by summer, the residences still have a long way to go.