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Announced at Underground Atlanta: workforce housing, LGBTQ club, trendy hotel
It’s the clearest vision for beleaguered downtown property’s revival to date.
Video: South Downtown’s ‘Artisan Yards’ site could one day house 50-plus-story towers
The nearly 10-acre site is zoned to allow more than 10 million square feet of commercial and residential development.
Invest Atlanta launches $15M transit-oriented development fund, but is it enough?
Renovating the Hotel Clermont cost twice as much.
Mysterious bidder lobs $15M offer for sizable chunk of downtown’s Gulch
Could this signal more big changes for South Downtown? Even Amazon, maybe?
Underground Atlanta redo could welcome national grocer, movie theater
A smaller, Atlanta-based grocery store is still expected to set up shop at the mixed-use redo, too.
Marketing efforts for Underground Atlanta’s ‘Block One’ are ramping up
The next section to be developed will include residences, retail, and hotel space.
First look: Vision for Underground Atlanta’s Block 3, now under construction
Retail, office, and communal component of downtown complex should be finished in about a year, developers say.
Atlanta’s revised New Year’s Eve 2017 plans are official
Woodruff Park will host the Peach Drop, just blocks north of its longtime home at Underground Atlanta.
Making New Year’s plans in Atlanta? Peach Drop could relocate to Woodruff Park
Downtown park would become epicenter for NYE celebrations, with the peach dropping from famed Flatiron.
Update: WRS is pulling for scaled-back parking at reborn Underground Atlanta
Specifics are still in the works, but developer hopes parking counts can come down significantly.
Atlanta’s Constitution Building at Five Points sold; preservation calls for affordable housing
Plans for the 1940s Art Moderne building also include offices, rooftop restaurant.
Masquerade is making moves ... to stay at Underground Atlanta
If the music venue expands and stays put, could Underground finally become the late-night hub (again) it has longed to be?
Underground Atlanta to host first ‘pop-up’ coworking space, with more planned
Post-Office Cowork will bring pay-per-use office space to underutilized real estate throughout city.
Plans: Former Atlanta Constitution Building to be reborn near Underground, Gulch
Project would bring loft offices, retail, housing, and a rooftop restaurant near Five Points MARTA station.
First Underground Atlanta apartments— ‘The Avery’—reveal rendering
The 180-unit building on Upper Alabama Street would be dedicated to low-income and workforce housing.
Underground Atlanta plans advancing, with first phase launching as soon as next month
Mixed-use center will feature housing, retail, offices, and preservation of historic buildings. Plus, Ponce City Market architects are onboard.
Antebellum artifact at Underground Atlanta will be relocated to, um, Buckhead
Following the sale of Underground to WRS, one of the oldest surviving elements in Atlanta will be uprooted to a fitting new home.
Exclusive: Underground Atlanta plans unveiled, but future still unclear
Developer WRS has publicly released their plans for the redevelopment of Underground, featuring 1,000 residential units, a grocery, and a food hall.
Underground Atlanta sell-by date passes; plans still on the shelf
When Atlanta rang in the new year with the Peach Drop at Underground, plans called for the sale and redevelopment of the site soon after. Now, after countless missed deadlines, the city claims the deal is still alive.
Officials: MARTA station soccer is massive success, boon for Five Points
Last summer, local nonprofit Soccer in the Streets presented a radical idea to enliven Five Points MARTA Station — fill an abandoned plaza on top of the station with a soccer pitch. Just six months later, the pitch is a hit.
Report: Underground Atlanta sale has again been delayed
The hugely complex deal that would finally scoot Underground off the city’s books had been planned to close last week but was bumped back until this Thursday. Now, another delay.
Underground Atlanta streets won’t be abandoned without (possible) legal fight
Earlier this month, the Atlanta City Council made waves when it approved a measure to abandon some of Atlanta’s oldest streets for private redevelopment. Now, some citizens angered by the decision are threatening legal action.
Curbed Cup 1st Round: (2) Ormewood Park vs. (15) Downtown
Which neighborhood should advance to the second round?
Report: (Former) PCM developers could want piece of Underground Atlanta
Multiple firms are sharking Underground Atlanta with hopes of stepping in if the property’s sale to WRS doesn’t materialize, the AJC reports. A longstanding deadline to make the WRS deal happen (or not) looms in January.
Kirkwood’s Pullman Yard is officially for sale
With development encroaching from all sides, the Georgia Building Authority announced this week it will sell one of Atlanta’s largest dormant properties, an abandoned Kirkwood rail facility that spans 27 acres and includes five century-old warehouses.
Atlanta votes to abandon 2 of downtown’s oldest streets
For more than a year, plans have been floating for the revitalization of Underground Atlanta. While specifics still aren’t clear on the heels of large concessions, the Atlanta City Council has voted to give over three streets to private control.
Atlanta’s most annoyingly vacant places: three years later
In late 2013, we strapped on our collective thinking caps and set out to photograph, for posterity’s sake, some of Atlanta’s "most annoyingly vacant places" as one of the first installments in the Visual Journeys series. Here’s an update.
Masquerade readies Underground spaces; Westside plans officially dead
The Masquerade will soon be ready to open in Underground Atlanta, following months of frantic preparation. Meanwhile, a future home on the Westside is no longer in the cards, following the resolution of a lawsuit.
Could decaying Atlanta Constitution building be reborn?
With broken windows and trees growing out of the roof, the Art Moderne Constitution Building downtown has seen better days. The rather large facility, to the west of Underground, could soon be sold to developers to undo decades of neglect.
Exclusive: Masquerade could move to Underground Atlanta
The Masquerade's days in Old Fourth Ward are limited, as demolition continues around the venue in preparation for apartments. While plans were to move to the Westside, complaints by potential future neighbors have resulted in a plan B: Underground!
Underground Atlanta gets flashy new renderings
Earlier this week, renderings of proposals for Underground Atlanta began circulating showing an abundance of surface parking and possible destruction of historic buildings, rubbing people the wrong way. Revised renderings show a whole lot more.
Underground Atlanta renderings: cause for panic or not?
New renderings of Underground Atlanta have been making the rounds, freaking people out over how much parking will be provided. But before Atlantans lose it over the suburbanization of downtown, things might not be quite as they appear... Let's hope.
Buckhead Deal Could Mean Underground Moves Ahead
The transformation of Underground Atlanta is moving one step closer to reality, following a year’s worth of negotiations between the City of Atlanta and the State of Georgia surrounding land in Buckhead, six miles north of Underground.
