The founders behind one of America’s largest tech hubs have plans to step in and keep years of redevelopment hopes for South Downtown’s disinvested blocks alive, with widespread changes potentially...

Can you imagine a future in which Atlanta Streetcar service would take you from downtown up to MARTA’s Lindbergh City Center station? Or from MARTA’s BeltLine-adjacent Bankhead station to all points...

Should all go according to developers’ plans, downtown will boast a vibrant new entertainment district by the time World Cup fanatics descend upon Atlanta from around the world in two years. That’s...

As an eagle-eyed reader recently pointed out, a national analysis by a nonprofit organization pushing for more vibrant U.S. cities has found the percentage of downtown Atlanta’s land devoted to...

If Powerball wishes and caviar dreams came true, almost one in five Americans say they would prefer to move to Atlanta. That’s one compelling (and surprising, perhaps) finding in a recent survey...

Question: What do you get when you make Peachtree Street off-limits to cars and add thousands of pedestrians, bicyclists, skateboarders, roller-skaters, hover-boarders, musicians, stationary revele...

UPDATE: 5:15 p.m., Oct. 31: Following publication of this story, a Rios architecture representative responded to our inquiries about this Midtown concept—and relayed news that the project is not...

As its skyline suggests, few places in Atlanta have changed so radically and fundamentally in recent years as Midtown. But a new report compiled by nonprofit business and community boosters Midtown...

For proof that Atlanta’s youth is passionate about the city’s future—and the quality of its urbanism—look no further than a 76-page report coined “PACMAN” for short. That’s an acronym for Public...

The Biden-Harris Administration has announced $8.2 billion in new funding that could help kickstart the first high-speed rail lines in America’s history as part of 10 major passenger train projects...

Midtown Alliance is cooking up ways to make the experience of traveling 17th Street near Atlantic Station by foot, bike, scooter, car, or bus less dismal.

After listening to Caleb Stubbs passionately discuss his pipe-dream vision for the future of rail transit across metro Atlanta, a reporter suggests his ideas are both grandiose and logical enough to...

The explosion of new housing options near the BeltLine due south of downtown now includes a complex with rents that might actually qualify as affordable for most Atlantans.

A decade after conversations began, Georgia State University is ready to move forward with building a baseball complex conveniently located in the shadow of downtown that honors Atlanta sports...

Anyone who’s tried to travel the sidewalks of Memorial Drive on a bike near Oakland Cemetery knows how harrowing that experience can be. Ditto for pedaling from the BeltLine to many points west along...

Developers have shared project plans with Urbanize Atlanta that could inject hundreds of new residents and retail street life into blocks south of Underground Atlanta that have struggled with...

The season for tossing caps and tassels is here again, and graduates across the country just might be wise to launch their professional lives in the City of Atlanta, according to an annual analysis.

In an announcement that City of Atlanta leadership is calling “monumental,” legislators from Georgia revealed today that more than $200 million in federal funding has been secured for two of the most...

A fresh section of Atlanta BeltLine that links Piedmont Park to the southern fringes of Buckhead—and vice versa—has officially arrived. Dignitaries including Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, BeltLine...

DOWNTOWN—Atlanta’s long-festering urban gash, the Gulch, reborn as a thriving community with housing options by the thousands? It’s going to happen, according to Centennial Yards Company president...

A much smoother, paved connection between Midtown and destinations such as Ansley Mall, the Armour District, and south Buckhead remains under construction but is ahead of schedule, with an opening...

In a city bloated with forgettable shopping centers, visitors to Emory Village may have found themselves charmed by its historic storefronts, functional roundabout, effortless walkability, and...

Days could be numbered for another surface parking lot in the heart of densifying Midtown. Core Spaces, a Chicago-based residential real estate developer, owner, and operator, is aiming to build a...

Editor’s note: Jack Daniel Summer, a metro Atlanta attorney who specializes in transportation litigation, supports the idea of BeltLine rail but also understands opposition to it. Inspired by a...

A much smoother, paved connection between Midtown and destinations such as Ansley Mall, the Armour District, and south Buckhead remains under construction but is ahead of schedule, with an opening...

At the beginning of the year, Urbanize Atlanta readers voted the Jackson Street Bridge’s people-friendly overhaul as one of the very top “wish list items” across the city. Unfortunately, that year...

After being on the proverbial drawing board for decades, a trail system that’s planned to usher eastside residents more swiftly and safely to the BeltLine corridor—and vice versa—has a definitive...

Following 15 years of planning across three mayoral administrations and more than a year of pandemic-induced delays, the first phase of what's expected to be Atlanta’s largest park will open to the...

Longtime Atlanta BeltLine observers and general fans of alternate transportation have reason to rejoice this week: Traveling from the edge of Grant Park to the southern rim of Buckhead entirely on...

Atlanta's no stranger to grandiose plans for creating parks out of thin air.  Over the past five years, park-starved Buckhead has drawn up and modified a 9-acre vision for HUB404, a greenspace that...

Following the lead of U.S. cities such as Austin, San Jose, Gainesville, Fla., and dozens of others, the Atlanta City Council approved legislation Monday that will remove parking minimums for new...

A BeltLine-adjacent project envisioned as the antidote to stick-built midrise apartments and ubiquitous glass boxes has officially arrived.

Atlanta BeltLine officials revealed this week that top-flight mountain biking trails, a pump track, and scenic hiking paths are bound for the city’s largest greenspace, minutes from the bustling...

In recent years, Decatur has been named the best place to live in Georgia in general (multiple times), the state’s top “suburb” (ouch), and the most bikeable city in the Peach State.

Eight long years after it was set to be funded by Atlanta’s RENEW bond initiative in 2015, a Complete Streets project described by city officials as transformative is gearing up to finally move...

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens has pulled back the curtain on where three additional MARTA stops will be located that city leadership deems vital for boosting transit ridership.