Three New High-Rise Towers Planned In Midtown Atlanta

Developers are planning three high-rise towers in Midtown Atlanta, the latest addition of a growing group of projects underway densifying a 1.2-mi² “boomtown” in the region, Urbanize Atlanta reportes. The three newest buildings will range from 26 to 61 stories and rise in locations within a few blocks of each other. The projects, presented before the Midtown Development Committee and the city’s Office of Planning, were generally approved, seeing only “minor” changes. The proposals are:

• 887 West Peachtree Street, a 26-story office and retail project with 408,000 ft² of space, plus 14,000 ft² for sidewalk-level retail. It is being developed by Cousins Properties, with architects HKS and Pickard Chilton, and will include a nine-level parking garage with space for 786 vehicles.
  
• 80 Peachtree Place (Stratus Midtown), a 30-story, mostly office structure with 464,000 ft² of space set above a parking podium. The developer is Trammell Crow, with designs by Duda Paine and HGOR, and a 13-story, 828-car garage.
  
• 1072 West Peachtree Street, a 61-story multifunction project with 350 market-rate apartments plus 212,000 ft² of office space. It is being planned by Rockefeller Group, with architecture by TVS Design and Brock Hudgins, and will have 6,600 ft² of retail and an eight-story parking garage with room for 850 spaces.

No solid groundbreaking timelines have been established for the three projects. In all, 17 projects are currently planned or under construction in Midtown Atlanta, and all but two include buildings of at least 17 stories.