Now leasing: Downtown Atlanta’s newest luxury apartment tower

A slice of Atlanta that was once home to cars and weekend football tailgates will soon house hundreds of residents.

The first apartment tower to rise out of the Gulch as part of the $5 billion Centennial Yards project has begun pre-leasing, developer CIM Group said Monday. The 304-unit luxury high-rise is the first of several buildings under construction in the 50-acre tangle of rail lines and parking lots sunken beneath the city’s viaducts, which aims to become downtown’s new center for vibrancy and entertainment.