The Looking Glass Is Coming to The CTR in 2027

A block west of Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the 1951 Phillis Wheatley Westside YWCA is being renovated for childcare, onsite medical access and mental health services. The $19.5 million campaign closed. The opening target has now moved five times, most recently to the first quarter of 2027.

Invest Atlanta approved a $29 million tax incentive bond and a $2 million TAD grant to rebuild Trestletree Village, the 1940s Section 8 community now split by the Beltline's Southeast Trail. All 188 subsidized homes stay. Grant Park, Ormewood Park and the tenants association are fighting over where.

The building at 383 Paines Avenue has been boarded up since the congregation moved in 2023. Westside Future Fund plans to turn it and the land beside it into 25 apartments reserved for households at 30 to 80 percent of AMI, plus 10 houses. No groundbreaking date yet.

Mediation over the Sandy Springs water system began Sept. 17, twenty years after the two cities failed to reach a service agreement. Nothing on a water bill changes this month. What changed is permitting: since March 3, multi-unit and attached-home projects need a flow study first.

A $1.15 million plan rewrite is asking Sandy Springs residents where a wider range of housing belongs. It will not rezone a single parcel. Meanwhile 21 homes were approved on five Spalding Drive lots, 421 homes got incentives at North River, and 382 apartments are going up at Glenlake.

Andover Place is planned for 80 units in two three-story buildings on Lakewood Avenue, with rents assigned by income tier and a late 2027 finish date. Like nearly every housing project built around Metropolitan Parkway in the last five years, it only pencils because public money is in the stack.

The field across from Chamblee City Hall has sat empty since the building opened in 2022. The city expects to close the land sale with Greystar and Vantage around mid to late October, with groundbreaking soon after on 340 apartments and 29,000 square feet of retail. Nobody will name a delivery date.

A Thai street food bar from the Talat Market team has been coming to the basement of the old Highland Inn since November 2024. Early summer 2025, then this summer, then spring 2026, now October. Here is what four moved windows on a 1927 basement tell you, and what the room is supposed to be.

The debate over whether Atlanta should start cutting off water skips the record. The city already terminated service 5,363 times between July 2023 and March 2026, and 175 of those were commercial accounts. Meanwhile the delinquent balance grew 19 percent to a figure the commissioner disputes.

Downtown Atlanta Inc. picked Atlanta Community Food Bank CEO Kyle Waide to lead the organization starting in December, its first new leader since A.J. Robinson took the job 23 years ago. He named housing first, in a downtown that just lost roughly 400 planned apartments.

The city is backing a $500 no-interest rent loan, repaid at $20 a week, paid straight to your rent balance. No credit check, no collections. The catch is not the money. Eligibility runs through your housing provider, and no target was announced for how many Atlanta households this reaches.

Atlanta's rules for who can search its license plate camera network are department policy, not city law. An ordinance to change that was referred back to the Public Safety Committee on Monday with no date set for another vote. Here is what that gap actually means for drivers.