A Midtown project more than four years in the making is starting to visibly come out of the ground, expanding Georgia Tech’s footprint in Atlanta’s new high-rise epicenter.
Situated at the northwest corner of West Peachtree and 5th streets, infrastructure work for the block-sized Technology Square Phase 3 project is now above ground level, beneath two construction cranes.
Tech Square—an education, retail, and dining district—opened its initial phase in the early 2000s. Considered the final phase, the current 828 W. Peachtree Street expansion project has been in design or undergoing site preparations since 2019.
One goal is to activate streets with retail and student activity, creating a more cohesive urban district.
The wide 5th Street sidewalk today, where the project’s The Porch facet is planned. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta
How Phase 3’s The Porch facet is expected to look and function. Eskew Dumez Ripple; RJTR; Georgia Tech
Phase 3 will include two buildings totaling 416,500 square feet, across the street from The Biltmore House on West Peachtree Street.
The block in question is also bounded by Spring and 5th streets, and Biltmore Place. It’s one block north of Tech Square’s Coda, a John Portman and Associates-designed office tower.
Named for philanthropists Penny and William “Bill” George, the 18-story George Tower will be home to the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, in addition to other programs. The second building, the 14-story Scheller Tower, will house Tech’s graduate and executive education programs in the Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business, according to Georgia Tech.
Another facet will be called The Porch, a place meant for socializing and sharing ideas. It’s designed as a nod to traditional Southern architecture, with huge kinetic doorways that fully open, blurring the line between indoors and outdoors.
According to architecture firm Eskew Dumez Ripple,…
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