Three Multi-Million-Dollar Downtown Projects Set to Roll

ATLANTA-Ten-ton cranes will be hovering over the Centennial Olympic Park area shortly as three mixed-use projects valued at an estimated $120 million get under way Downtown near the planned Georgia Aquarium and the new World of Coca-Cola Museum.

City officials participated at the ground-breaking of Big Bethel AME Church’s $45-million Sweet Auburn Avenue undertaking that is expected to revitalize the area where the Rev. Martin Luther King grew up. Integral Group, the church’s developer, plans to erect 200 condo units, an undetermined amount of office space and ground-floor retail.

The 150-year-old church planned the project for two years, quietly buying up nearby properties for the mixed-use undertaking. Brokers tell GlobeSt.com the civil rights movement of the 1960s was fostered by the business district on Auburn Avenue.