The trail-facing commercial project is targeting mid-2027. Its completion does not mean every storefront will open then.
The Northwest Trail runs out at Northside Drive. You reach the end, look across six lanes of traffic and see the long, low former carpet showroom with its silo standing where the pavement stops.
That building is being renovated into something trail users will eventually be able to enter.
The Atlantic Companies began construction in August on the 1956 structure at 1500 Northside Drive, formerly home to Myers Carpet. The project is now branded The Berkeley, a reference to the surrounding Berkeley Park neighborhood.
Plans call for approximately 21,400 square feet of commercial space. About 17,400 square feet is intended for retail, food and beverage, and showroom tenants. Another 4,000 square feet is planned as creative office space.
The developer expects construction to finish in mid-2027. That is a building-completion target, not a promise that every storefront will be leased and operating by then.
What changes for people using this stretch of trail
A covered breezeway with skylights will run through the middle of the building, connecting the commercial spaces directly to the trail.
That is the design idea in one sentence: the back of an old carpet showroom becomes a front door.
The Berkeley occupies the same 2.7-acre property as Monday Night Brewing’s The Grove, which includes a taproom, restaurant and outdoor gathering space. If the current schedule holds, the property will gain another cluster of trail-facing doors in 2027.
This portion of the trail is already open. Northwest Trail Section 3A opened on July 28, 2025, creating a 0.2-mile connection between Trabert Avenue and Northside Drive. The Grove followed with its grand opening on Aug. 23.
People can already approach The Berkeley from the Trabert Avenue side. What they cannot do is continue safely across Northside Drive on the Beltline.
The bridge comes later
Northwest Trail Section 3B is the nearly one-mile project that will carry the trail over Northside Drive on a pedestrian bridge, continue through the Atlanta Technology Center, pass beneath I-75 and run along an elevated structure inside the Tanyard Creek channel.
The Beltline broke ground on Section 3B on Sept. 10, 2026. KAIZEN Collaborative designed it, Strack Inc. is building it and PATH is serving as program manager.
Completion is expected in late fall 2028.
Run that schedule against The Berkeley and the difference is roughly a year and a half. The commercial building is expected to finish first, serving a trail that reaches it from Trabert Avenue but still ends at Northside Drive.
The bridge eventually expands that audience by connecting Berkeley Park with the Atlanta Technology Center, Tanyard Creek Park and the existing Northside Trail.
The building schedule has already moved
When the redevelopment was announced in February, the program called for 10,500 square feet of retail and food and beverage space, a 7,000-square-foot showroom and 3,700 square feet of flexible office space. Completion was expected by the end of 2026.
The current plan combines the retail, restaurant and showroom categories into approximately 17,400 square feet while increasing the office component to about 4,000 square feet. The publicly reported total moved from approximately 21,200 to 21,400 square feet.
More important, the completion target moved from the end of 2026 to mid-2027.
That is roughly a six-month change on an early estimate for the adaptive reuse of a 70-year-old building. It is not extraordinary, but it is worth recording because the next schedule change, if there is one, will carry more meaning.
The Atlantic Companies acquired the property in January 2023 for a reported $11.2 million. That is the acquisition price, not the construction cost. No total development budget has been publicly disclosed.
Pre-leasing is underway, with SRS Real Estate Partners handling the retail spaces and Capital Real Estate Group leading office leasing. No tenants have been announced.
Nearby, a second Ruby Chow’s has been reported as targeting summer 2027 at 739 Trabert Ave. The restaurant is planned for a former office space that will require renovation, and no exact opening date has been announced.
One Beltline opening arrived with the trail. This one will not.
Section 3A opened in July 2025. The Grove followed less than four weeks later.
That sequence allowed the new trail and its first major destination to begin drawing people at nearly the same time.
The Berkeley reverses that order. Its building work is scheduled to finish while the protected connection across Northside Drive remains under construction.
Trail schedules in this part of Atlanta have moved before. Northwest Trail Segment 1, which includes a 160-foot suspension bridge over Peachtree Creek, was once expected to finish in June 2026. Its completion is now listed for mid-2028 after the installed bridge was disassembled and plans were made to replace it.
ATL Vibes and Views examined that delay in September.
The Beltline says 16.7 miles, or 78 percent, of its 22-mile mainline trail is complete. What remains includes some of the loop’s most complicated bridges, elevated structures and highway crossings.
The Berkeley is therefore a bet on two versions of the same corner: the current endpoint that exists in 2027 and the connected trail destination expected to exist after the bridge opens in 2028.
The tenant list will tell us more than another rendering. An office or showroom can draw customers who intended to visit. A restaurant relying heavily on passing trail traffic is making a more aggressive bet that the existing segment, The Grove and Northside Drive can produce enough customers before the bridge opens. For a business considering space here, the useful questions are whether the lease accounts for that eighteen-month gap, whether rent concessions are available before Section 3B opens and what happens if the bridge schedule moves again. Get those answers in writing.
