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Funding
The Sandy Springs Development Authority adopted a bond resolution on Aug. 26 enacting the 10-year, $2.54 million property tax abatement City Council approved Aug. 18 for Woodfield Development's North River Apartments redevelopment.
Zoning
The Brookhaven City Council voted 3-0 on August 25, 2026 to approve rezoning case LUP26-00001 and special land use permit LUP26-00002, clearing Ashford Green Ventures, LLC to add a five- to six-story, 320-unit apartment building, alongside a renovated 266,000-square-foot office building and 16,000 square feet of restaurant space, to the 14.24-acre Ashford Green campus at 4170 Ashford Dunwoody Road.
Milestone
The city approved a $4.3 million incentive package to help Woodfield Development trade the aging North River Shopping Center for 336 apartments, 85 townhomes and a new park.
Opening
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.
Milestone
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.
Infrastructure
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.
Opening
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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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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130 units, all affordable, rise on Beltline-owned land the agency bought five years ago to hold down long-term costs along the Northeast Trail.
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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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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 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.
Program
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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A $1 billion, 12-acre district on a former Georgia Power parking lot now carries a Mailchimp tower, a 359-unit apartment building and a 196-room hotel.
AI IMAGEProgram
The second tranche of a bond program meant to leverage $1.2 billion in housing investment and reach 15,000 new units by 2032.
Opening
A 150,000-square-foot Costco opens in August on the site that hosted 1996 Olympic tennis, with 248 apartments to follow next door.
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A downtown Gwinnett corner once occupied by an auto-body business becomes a walkable, traditional-style enclave a block from the square.
Budget
Design and construction spending jumps 30% as the Beltline races to finish its 22-mile loop by 2030.
Infrastructure
Four lanes become three between 8th Street and Piedmont Circle, a project that traces back to Alex Hyneman's 2016 death at 10th and Monroe.
Opening
The James Beard-winning Bacchanalia chef named her new all-day cafe after her family's five-generation Cartersville farm.
Milestone
The West End development pairs BeltLine-fronting retail with a bet on keeping workforce housing near the trail.
Funding
Three neighborhood boards voted down funding for a plan that would pack all of the site's Section 8 units into a single building.
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Two builders are reshaping 18 acres around the city's Tudor-village downtown with nearly 800 new homes.
Organization
The Minneapolis company is taking more than 30,000 square feet at 575 Main Street NE.
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The Overlook at Garson comes into focus with 130 permanently affordable apartments near Lindbergh.
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