Officials: 1,100 more residences, retail on Midtown’s 2025 horizon

Josh Green

Thu, 01/09/2025 – 13:39

The influx of new proposals and sheer number of construction cranes in Midtown may have recently subsided, but don’t expect an idle new year in Atlanta’s hottest hotbed of high-rise growth.

According to current construction schedules, Midtown is expected to pack on another 15,000 square feet of retail space and nearly 1,100 more apartments between spring and fall this year, as “the [district’s] momentum continues to surge,” per a 2025 outlook compiled by Midtown Alliance.

That tally includes four new towers—in three separate projects—either on or within a few blocks of Peachtree Street, all of them by developers with a growing presence and portfolio in Atlanta. (Per the most recent stats provided to Urbanize Atlanta by those firms, the exact new apartment tally for Midtown in 2025 will be 1,062 new units, with less than 20 percent of those geared toward college students.)

A revised rendering showing Modera Parkside’s east facade, with color flourishes that echo the nearby Rainbow Crosswalk and a revised parking podium near 10th Street.Mill Creek Residential/Modera Parkside

The first project to start opening, 32-story Modera Parkside, includes 361 apartments (priced from $1,794 monthly) and 3,400 square feet of street retail, about two blocks from Piedmont Park.

That tower is on pace to finish construction in the third quarter of 2025, officials with developer Mill Creek Residential have said.

How the two-tower project is expected to look from Piedmont Park, where it’s also now visible from the banks of Lake Clara Meer. Middle Street Partners; designs, Brock Hudgins Architects

A couple of blocks north of there, the two-tower 1081 Juniper St. project led by Charleston-based developer Middle Street Partners has topped out, with expectations to start opening this spring.

The larger North tower climbed to 400 feet in 2024, offering 320 units across 37 stories. The South tower, meanwhile, has topped out at 380 feet, with 34 stories, larger floorplans, and what’s designed to feel more like a boutique offering of only 167 units, the development team has said.

Rooftop views planned for Rambler Atlanta. Niles Bolton Associates

Last on the 2025 docket is 19-story Rambler Atlanta at 736 Peachtree St., a student-housing venture that will count 214 apartments and 2,977 square feet of retail space come this fall.

Following a candid year-end post on these pages pointing out what a blast living at Rambler is being marketed to be, reps with Austin-based developer LV Collective send word that an entire floor of the building will be dedicated to study time, with nine private study rooms and six conference rooms.

“Rambler’s study floor offers spaces designed for different styles of study, allowing for perceived privacy and intimacy, while still feeling connected and immersed in the larger public space” for better mental and physical health, the development team noted via email.

An updated look at Peachtree Street retail plans at Rambler Atlanta’s base. Niles Bolton Associates

Beyond those 2025 deliveries, Midtown Alliance’s development tracker lists four more projects of significant scale that are actively under construction and expected to deliver next year. But among that list is Dewberry Capital’s long-delayed Campanile remake—now titled “The Midtowne”—so the count more realistically is three.

The apartment influx this year will follow a (nearly) record-breaking 2024, when the 1.2-square-mile subdistrict saw a new project of significant scale open, on average, every two months.

Last year’s Midtown development surge packed in nearly 2,200 apartments—the second-most in a 12-month timeframe in history—and 65,000 square feet of retail space across six residential and office projects.

Those high-rise entrants to Midtown’s apartment market last year added significant beef to the skyline. They included Momentum Midtown (70 total stories), Emmi Midtown (31 stories), Loria Ansley (28 stories), and Society Atlanta (also 31 stories).

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