There's plenty of heat on Atlanta's development map.
"Right now, roughly 2,400 apartments and condos are under construction. Another 1,400 are proposed. Also in the pipeline: roughly 1,300 hotel rooms and hundreds of stories of offices."
In addition to the heat map, Green provides details from some the highest profile projects in the works: The Peach, the SCAD dorm tower, Boundary, Ascent Midtown, 1295 Spring Street NW, and Arts Center MARTA TOD among others.
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