Photos: How development is currently growing in Atlanta’s Gulch

As Atlanta’s urban planning unfolds, the proverbial hell has frozen over all year long and new construction continues to grow higher and higher into the soulless pit that is the Downtown Gulch.

With the unofficial start of summer here (and the skies less hazy than they will soon be), it seemed like an opportune time to float a drone over Centennial Yards and check the development progress from above today ‘today.

The first construction site of the megaproject, where Centennial Olympic Park Drive meets Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive across from Mercedes-Benz Stadium, hosted groundbreaking for two high-rise projects in late 2022.

Today, the 304-unit building that will rise on this site extends about a dozen stories above the street. Its mixed-use counterpart, the 292-touch Anthem Hotel, has just begun vertical construction, with the curved ground floor now meeting the street.

The two new buildings will rise 18 stories between The Benz and the active railroad tracks below. And both are expected to be delivered in 2025, according to Centennial Yards Company management.

Just east of the towers, Centennial Yards project officials unveiled plans in March for an 8-acre mixed-use entertainment center with a fan plaza at the center. These buildings are expected to be completed in time for eight 2026 FIFA World Cup matches to be played in Atlanta.

This Gensler-designed project would also include another Centennial Yards hotel (14 stories) and a three-story “immersive entertainment concept,” all rising from the Gulch on a new platform wedged between Centennial Olympic Park Drive and MLK Jr . Drive, next to both State Farm Arena and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. In March, project officials were optimistic that construction on the second phase of the Centennial works would begin this summer, perhaps in June.

Collectively, phase two is called the project’s entertainment district.

Developers at Centennial Yards Company, a division of Los Angeles-based CIM Group, hope not only to complete the entertainment district in time for the World Cup, but also to have two-thirds of the 50-acre project completed or under construction. ‘here there. .

For now, in the gallery above, see where Centennial Yards’ progress stands in today’s changing urban context.

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