Underground Atlanta Is Counting 10 Music Stages. Four Belong to The Masquerade.

Mastro’s Ocean Club opens November 6 at The CTR, joining its atrium food hall and bar. The restaurant adds another reason to visit the former CNN Center, while plans for its vacant towers remain under consideration.

At its Oct. 28 board meeting, Atlanta Housing reported 9,776 affordable homes created or preserved since July 2022, within 224 of its 10,000-home goal for 2027. The count mixes new construction at Bowen with rehab on apartments people already rent, and a new bond program is taking applications.

The Grove Theatre opened as a movie house in June 1941 and closed in 1969. Grove Park Foundation bought it in 2017, and on Nov. 4 crews started a roughly $5.1 million renovation that will reopen the building as the Grove Park Performing & Cultural Arts Center.

More than 34,000 people live Downtown. Local leaders see those neighbors as weekday customers for shops and restaurants, and an office-to-apartment conversion at Five Points shows where more residents could move in.

The final vision for public greenspace at the former Atlanta Prison Farm gets a Nov. 16 presentation at Oakland Cemetery. The meeting is free with RSVP required, but the Key Road site remains closed and a construction budget and opening date are still ahead.

Hillcrest’s first announced shops are Salted Melon and Chastain Creamery. Neither is open yet. The Sandy Springs project also includes 392 rental homes and a garage with 111 public spaces tied to a $4.88 million city investment.

A $3 million grant and tax-exempt bond financing support The Sanctuary’s expanded housing plan across from City Hall. The church partnership would preserve the historic sanctuary, but construction, eligibility details and leasing still lie ahead.

The Waluhaje has reopened as Heritage Village at West Lake, with 102 income-restricted apartments, a public Mercy Care clinic and its restored ballroom. The clinic welcomes walk-ins; the apartments require a voucher-backed waiting list process.

Seven stories, 250 apartments, and 25 units reserved at 60 percent of area median income for 20 years. Crescent Communities' Novel Blandtown is down to exterior finishes and sidewalks on Huff Road, with an early 2027 opening and the standalone retail building pushed to a future phase.

Atlanta City Council voted unanimously Nov. 2 to ask the Urban Design Commission's director to nominate 811 Ponce de Leon Place as a city landmark. The house still stands, the owners' application to replace it is active, and the protection switch is a letter nobody has confirmed was mailed.

Peoplestown residents finished a comprehensive plan for Four Corners Park in March 2024. A $9.4 million Bezos Earth Fund grant to Park Pride is now funding it, on a three-year timeline. The first stage is ground work and flood safety, and one piece of the plan is still unfunded.

Seven alternatives were studied for an infill MARTA station at Murphy Crossing, two were eliminated, and five concepts are on the table. The Beltline is paying roughly $800,000 to $900,000 in TAD dollars for the scoping study. Public comment closes Nov. 30. No construction money exists yet.