New City is asking Metro Atlanta for permission to include 780 new apartments in its $1 billion Atlanta Beltline Eastside Trail project. There is no timeline for when the project will begin. The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports New City will wait until the market is more amenable to lending for apartment projects.

New City LLC would add two residential buildings to the project, which it calls Fourth Ward. Mailchimp’s headquarters anchor it, and it includes a boutique hotel and apartment tower. 

The new apartment buildings, which make up the final phase of the project, would cover about 4 acres, replacing an existing parking lot, a temporary dog park, New City’s offices, and the former Venkman’s, a restaurant and music venue. Architectural firm Barkow Leibinger will design New City’s residential buildings. New City is set to go soon before the Beltline’s Design Review Committee for its final phase. 

The Allen Morris Company is planning to build a mixed-use project that would replace industrial properties in the area of Bankhead and the BeltLine’s Westside Trail. Two years ago, the company paid $31 million for the site.

Allen Morris submitted plans to a state planning agency outlining details of what could take shape on 15.5 acres at 1060 Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway. 

Urbanize Atlanta reports the project would entail 1,600 multifamily units, 575,000 square feet of office space, and 125,000 square feet of retail across the linear site, which fronts the Westside Trail for the equivalent of several blocks. 

The project’s retail phase is expected to start construction in the third quarter of 2025 and be finished in summer 2025. The overall project completion date is listed as 2031.

Ackerman & Co. has experience turning old brick warehouses into thriving mixed-use developments. Along with MDH Partners, Ackerman developed the Lee + White project along Atlanta’s Westside Trail which contains restaurants, breweries and office space. The company has purchased another empty warehouse not far from Lee + White and hopes to add to its success. The 12-acre site was acquired in 2021 for $24 million. The site contains a 212,000-square-foot warehouse, about half the size of Lee + White.

The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports Ackerman has requested a meeting with Atlanta planners to discuss rezoning the property at 1200 White St. to allow for a mixed-use project with residential space. The meeting would allow the developer to refine its plans before submitting a formal rezoning application.

It’s not clear when Ackerman will move forward with a project.

Ackerman & Co. has more than 37 million square feet of office, medical, retail and mixed-used space developed, and 4.5 million square feet under management.