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The 326-home West End project progressed from topping out to leasing, with 66 affordable and workforce units in the mix.
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The city and development authority completed a roughly $4.3 million incentive package for 421 homes, shops and a public park on Roswell Road.
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A 14-acre Perimeter Center office campus can trade unbuilt office entitlements for housing and restaurants.
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The middle section of the 8-acre, $14 million Enota Park on the Westside Trail is on pace to open in September, with the rest of the park following through November.
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The Alpharetta City Council decides Monday night whether Jamestown and New York Life can rebuild North Point Mall around a 20,000-seat hockey arena, up to 1,385 apartments, and new offices and retail.
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A $160 million expansion will add about 8 acres along Piedmont Avenue and make the garden the first major cultural institution you can walk or bike into straight off the BeltLine.
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Capstone finished the $57 million second phase of Herndon Square on Northside Drive, adding 201 apartments, most of them income-restricted.
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Brookhaven landed $588,168 to design a 14-foot-wide bike and pedestrian bridge over I-85 linking Emory Executive Park to the Peachtree Creek Greenway.
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Two three-story buildings rise on formerly vacant Vine City land, the nonprofit's first new-construction project after renovations elsewhere on the Westside.
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Prelude at Medley is the first residential building to lease inside Toro's 43-acre, 883-unit Johns Creek Town Center district, which opens October 29.
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Pennrose and Radiant Development Partners broke ground on 130 fully affordable units along the Beltline's future Northeast Trail, on land the Beltline bought from Wells Fargo to guarantee it stayed affordable.
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The Buckhead institution takes over the 1928 Patterson House at Portman's Spring Quarter, with a cafe and art gallery alongside the steakhouse.
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Jamestown's plan to raze most of North Point Mall for an NHL-sized arena, 1,385 apartments and three hotels cleared the Planning Commission 4-3; the City Council votes August 24.
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The 11-county region added 53,690 residents in the year through April, a 1% growth rate the Atlanta Regional Commission blames largely on tight, expensive housing.
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Atlanta is one of eight U.S. cities sharing the Bezos Earth Fund's $100 million park-greening program.
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A 22-acre Old Fourth Ward hospital campus that closed overnight in 2022 is now slated for teacher, nurse and police workforce housing.
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TPA Residential spent $7 million digging 150,000 yards of buried trash out of a Boulevard Heights site before building nearly 300 homes on it.
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218 units, all affordable, are set to break ground on a 6.3-acre site the Beltline and City of Refuge bought together in 2023.
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Prelude at Medley's 340 units move in November, the first residents of a 43-acre district built to compete with Avalon and Halcyon.
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