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Atlanta: CRE Challenges That Remain

ATLANTA— As SunTrust's Walt Mercer sees it, Atlanta has similar challenges to other major metros, but the city also has something unique that helps it overcome.

By Jennifer LeClaire | Updated on April 29, 2015

ATLANTA—For all the talk of Atlanta as a growth market, the southern city is not without commercial real estate challenges. If you ask anyone about traffic patterns in Atlanta, a groan is likely to precede the answer.

Indeed, although Atlanta traffic is not among the Top 10 worst-congested cities in the annual Traffic Scorecard report, you might have a hard time convincing daily commuters of that fact. Atlanta does rank at 21, though, which is bad enough considering the competition is the likes of Boston, Seattle, San Jose, CA, and Austin.

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