We are disappointed that some consider these dangerous actions that damage public property to be their idea of a good time. We appreciate the efforts of our partners at
@ATLDOT
for cleaning up the landmark intersection last week, and for coming out this morning to fix it again.
Today,
@Microsoft
officially announced its major Atlanta expansion that includes office space at Atlantic Yards during a conference with
@GovKemp
and Atlanta Mayor
@KeishaBottoms
. Watch it here:
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens: "In the past 6 years, nearly 50 new buildings have opened in the 1.2 square mile Midtown Improvement District, representing a combined $8.4B of investment on less than 1% of the City's land area."
#AnnualMeeting2024
Planter boxes were installed along 2 blocks of the Spring St bike lane today (Peachtree Place to 8th St + 8th St to 3rd St) to add another layer of separation for cyclists and other users. Look for plants to be added to the planters when the temp cools.
.
@Google
confirmed today its massive Atlanta expansion is focused in
#MidtownATL
.
The technology giant announced it will occupy 19 stories, or 500,000 square feet, of 1105 West Peachtree. Details in
@AtlBizChron
:
Today,
@ATLDOT
crews installed a “pedestrian scramble” - a type of signal at an intersection that allows people to cross from all corners at the same time, including diagonally - at the rainbow crosswalks at 10th and Piedmont. (1/3)
The presidential debate will be held in Midtown on 6/27 from 9-10:30 pm at the Techwood Turner Broadcasting campus. We expect US Secret Service-directed lane/street closures near campus & potential rolling roadblocks on the Connector. We will share APD updates as we receive them.
If you need a little break from Election Night coverage, head outside and check out our
#MidtownBright
holiday lighting activation. We turned the lights on a little early this year for you.
A big thanks to
@ATLDOT
for getting out to the rainbow crosswalks at 10th and Piedmont this morning and cleaning them up! We appreciate the quick response, and they look beautiful.
Midtown Alliance is set to revamp the 17th Street Corridor, with a primary goal of placing safety and the enhancement of the community's experience at the forefront of these people-focused changes. Read more about this project here:
🚦Hey, Midtown! The new traffic signal at Peachtree Place and Spring is now live.
Thank you to our partners at
@ATLDOT
for helping make this new addition possible.
Happy Thanksgiving,
#MidtownATL
! Take a walk this evening and check out the holiday lights we’ve turned on in the district — more festive surprises coming soon.
#MidtownBright
Check out our new frog friend, a temporary installation on loan from our partners at
@AtlBotanical
. This mosaiculture sculpture's surroundings will be completed soon. Look for it to greet you when you enter
#MidtownATL
at the corner of West Peachtree and 10th Streets!
Finally. After years of delay, construction is mobilizing for the Juniper Complete Street project. Improvements to the mile-long corridor incl. a barrier-separated bikeway, new wider sidewalks, safer ped xing, new street trees, LED lighting + more.
Big day at the Midtown MARTA Station! We’re cutting the ribbon to celebrate the new plaza enhancements. If you’re in the area, stop by for some light refreshments and meet the artist, Andrew Catanese!
Dozens of buildings in
#MidtownATL
, including
@ColonySquareATL
, are joining buildings and landmarks across the world tonight to
#LightItBlue
for health-care heroes at 8PM. This is the third week Atlanta has participated - let's keep it going!
Missed this? A new pedestrian scramble was installed at the intersection of 5th and Spring in
#MidtownATL
. Pedestrians are now able to walk diagonally at every corner at the intersection.
We would like to send our condolences to the friends and family of Heather Alhadeff, who began her impactful urban planning career at Midtown Alliance. Heather’s passion and amazing spirit were instrumental in developing the original Blueprint Midtown master plan.
As Kevin shared this morning, development in
#MidtownATL
hasn’t slowed down:
- 57 buildings delivered in a square mile since 2010 (blue)
- 16 buildings currently under construction today (green)
- 10 buildings that have cleared the development review process (orange)
Good news: we’re finishing the installation of our parklet furniture along Spring Street this week. Grab some friends and check them out on a crisp autumn day!
Twenty five years ago today, the 1996 Olympic Games began in Atlanta. To mark the occasion, Billy Payne and Andrew Young sat down with the
@AJC
to tell the story of how they helped bring the games to our city. Read their amazing story here:
Heads up, Midtown! Three new traffic signals 🚦 will go live this Thursday (3/7) and are currently in flash mode:
• 13th Street at West Peachtree St
• 13th Street at Peachtree St
• 13th Street at Juniper St
Keep an eye out for the flashing yellow lights.
Streets are for motorists, bus riders, cyclists, scooter riders … and even people marching in parades. Like this one tonight on Peachtree Street. The 2023 Parliament of Owls community lantern parade was equal parts fun and funk. 🎺🎶
@ATLDOT
We also remind the community that our partners at
@Atlanta_Police
are offering a cash reward for information about those who took part in these incidents.
Here's what that same block could be. If the space behind this glass façade were activated to spill onto the sidewalk, we could create parklets and combine them with a protected bike lane to create a space for everyone!
#MidtownATL
New and improved bus stop signage has been installed recently all over Midtown. Thanks to our local transit operators for the changes! Not sure which bus is right for you? Request a personalized trip plan from Midtown Transportation here:
Our favorite frog, known locally as Sam Phibian, is going on vacation for some much-needed TLC! 🐸✨
Read our conversation with
@AtlBotanical
about the origin of this installation and the daily maintenance to keep it beautiful:
Calling all artists! We're currently accepting qualifications for a site-specific outdoor mural at the Midtown
@MARTASERVICE
Station along the Peachtree Place façade. Get the details:
⚾ Catching a baseball game at Truist Park this summer? Consider leaving from Midtown! The CobbLinc Route 10 and Rapid 10 buses pick up at MARTA’s Arts Center station and drop you off right next to The Battery. Reach out to our Transportation team for more info!
Big updates could be coming to Skate Escape’s little corner of
#MidtownATL
! Tonight the DRC reviewed a proposal for an adaptive reuse and expansion of the 2 buildings at the NW corner of 12th St. and Piedmont Ave. to create new restaurant + retail space, conference space + more.
Happy first day of Winter ❄️! To celebrate, we’re throwing it back to when
#MidtownATL
was covered in a blanket of snow two weeks ago. | 📸 by
@j
.jason.chambers
#WinterSolstice
.
@AndrewCatanese
is back in
#MidtownATL
to paint two additional MARTA structures to complement his previous work at the Midtown Station. If you're passing through the district, check out his new artwork, which should be completed this month.
Thank you to the State Road and Tollway Authority's Georgia Transportation Infrastructure Bank for the $750K grant to help construct our 5th St Complete Street Project! It will include a bike lane, ped crossings and traffic signals.
@SRTACEO
2017 was a big year in Midtown Atlanta. 4,500 job announced, 33 major developments in the pipeline, + more. The Midtown Momentum exists on every block. Read more:
Have you seen our new pilot project to add planters along the 5th Street bike lane (between West P'tree + Spring)? The goal = create the experience of a buffered bike lane and test size, durability, maintenance, etc. of the planters + plant material. May the best design win!
We’re moving forward with projects on both 5th and 15th streets! Find out about the work we’re doing to reconnect Midtown and upgrade our streets for multimodal use.
Here’s some recent coverage from Urbanize ATL:
Today we celebrated the groundbreaking of
@NSCorp
HQ in
#MidtownATL
! The move will bring 850 new jobs and almost $600M investment to the area, which NS President and CEO Jim Squires called “a hub of innovation and talent.”
In
#MidtownATL
's 1.2 sq mile area, there are 38 major developments either under construction or proposed. For this Economic Development Week, visit our website to view our interactive map that highlights each development:
#EconDevWeek
We’re so excited to see
@ATLDOT
posting 25 mph signs, part of the Vision Zero policy the city adopted earlier this year to help reduce traffic deaths and injuries. Please slow it down to help create
#SafeStreetsforAll
.
Read more about
#VisionZero
here:
And just like that,
@CaravacaMarket
is officially open for business! We’re excited to have this international food market at the doorsteps of our neighborhood 💙
Midtown Alliance and
@ATLDOT
are studying Peachtree Pl. as a preferred corridor to create a safe, east/west connection for people on bikes + scooters traveling through the middle of the district. Read about our study here:
Hamilton’s run at
@TheFoxTheatre
had an estimated local economic impact of more than $56 million, and revived more than 150 part time jobs at the theatre. Read about the production’s successful return to Atlanta here:
The
@AtlantaBeltLine
Eastside Trail, in combination w/district-wide in bike facilities, have contributed to the overall rise in bicycling around
#MidtownATL
.
"Midtown has been an exceptionally dynamic market in Atlanta, and that's primarily driven by the technology community and adjacency to
@GeorgiaTech
." -
@CousinsREIT
CEO Colin Connolly in a Q1 earnings call
@AtlBizChron
SUBSCRIBER LINK:
Welcome to your first day in
#MidtownATL
@NCRCorporation
🎉! 150+ restaurants, 3,000 cultural events, and 300+ acres of parks and greenspace are now footsteps from your new front door.
Today’s the day. Our founder, John H. Patterson, once said “We progress through change.” The iNCRedible vision of our leader
@Bill_Nuti
has enabled us to progress through change today by making
@MidtownATL
our new home.
The Andrew Catanese mural at the Midtown MARTA Station is officially done 🎉! A big thank you to
@MARTASERVICE
, Andrew, and his team, for all of the work the past couple of months. Now to wait for the other enhancements coming soon 😉
#ArtBoundMidtown
Tonight at the Midtown DRC meeting, Selig presented “Midtown Exchange,” a mixed-use development that proposes:
- 25K SF of retail
- 465 apartments
- 26-story office tower
- structured parking for ~1,608 vehicles.
Stay tuned for DRC recommendations in tomorrow's recap.
We can’t wait until the new Spring Street parklets are ready! We started work on them today, in partnership with the
@CityofAtlanta
through their Tactical Urbanism program. Read about the project here:
Good to see you this evening,
@CardenOfMilk
! Thanks for your efforts to make the taps at
@pourtaproom
more reachable, they look awesome. Hope you had a great night!
Thank you 🙏
@pourtaproom
for listening to the advice I gave over a year ago to make the taps at your new
@MidtownATL
location reachable. Tonight the Mgr Tony took this proud pic of me pouring at the Midtown Alliance event. This is what
#disabilityempowerment
looks like ❤️♿️♿️♿️♿️
The birds have landed! We heard you like the overhead installation at Commercial Row by
@cra_King
and now those birds have some larger-than-life friends outside the MARTA
#MidtownATL
Station. Shoutout to
@martatransit
and MARTA Artbound for making this project possible!
Few places in the United States have experienced so much new development activity in a one-square mile area. Get more insight on
#MidtownATL
's past milestones and the projects that will continue to transform the district:
Coming soon, a new LIT lane on Spring Street! Here’s the latest from our partners at
@ATLDOT
, plus how some parking spaces could be reimagined to bring new vibrancy to
#MidtownATL
.
What a
#SBLIII
game! What a week! Congrats to both teams and their fan bases. Thanks to
@NFL
, our fed, state, reg’l and local partners,
@CityofAtlanta
, SB 53 Host Committee,
@MARTASERVICE
+ all 10000 volunteers for helping ATL put its best foot forward. ❤️
This morning at our 2022 Annual Meeting, Midtown Alliance President and CEO Kevin Green presented this all-new aerial rendering showing the 100+ projects built in
#MidtownATL
since 1997. What a transformation!
Pre-sale tickets for the "Infinity Mirrors" exhibit at the
@HighMuseumofArt
go on sale in two weeks. Here's the inside scope on how you can be one of the firsts to see Yayoi Kusama's creations.
Last week, crews finished converting portions of 3rd Street from one- to two-way operation and striped a bike lane between Peachtree and West Peachtree. This is
#MIdtownATL
's third two-way conversion project this year, an effort to make streets safer for everyone.
Every Thursday afternoon, between 3pm - 6pm, you can find live music at the Midtown MARTA Station. Today we have Elizabeth Grimes singing sweet tunes to
@MARTASERVICE
patrons 💚🎶
Check out these new renderings for Art Walk, a pedestrian-friendly focal point that reinforces
#MidtownATL
's identity as the region's cultural and creative epicenter. This effort relies on strategic partners like
@atlantafed
.
Warms our hearts to see people coming together and celebrating. Experiences like this bring out the very best in our city, and what we can be. Go Braves!
We would like to thank City of Atlanta Police Department for cracking down on speeding and street racing over the weekend. APD arrested 44 and issued a total of 114 citations — and it says it plans to continue targeting reckless drivers.
.
@GeorgiaTech
's McCamish Pavilion is one of several locations in and around Midtown that will be utilized as an early voting location next month. Please exercise your right to vote!
Since the 1970s, Midtown Atlanta has served as the Southeastern hub for LGBTQ life and activism. October kicks off the 48th Annual Atlanta Pride Festival and brings the annual Pride Parade to Peachtree and 10th streets.
The
@GeorgiaPower
Foundation donated $25,000 to
@alliancetheatre
for its costume shop employees to continue making masks for
@emoryhealthcare
! Costume shop employees are currently making about 300 masks a day.
Big things are happening at the Arts Center MARTA Station! This new mural on West Peachtree by local artist Stacie Rose was installed over the past week, and MARTA and Midtown Alliance have planted more than 5,000 plants. New seating is underway, so watch this space!
Tomorrow,
#MidtownATL
and
@downtownatlanta
buildings will join buildings across the world by turning blue at 8PM for the
#LightItBlue
campaign to show support and gratitude for essential workers. You can join in from home by posting your own blue-themed pics tagged
#MakeItBlue
.