Downtown Atlanta is “the place where it happens.”

Former U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neal famously said “all politics is local” – and while that may not be true today, it still holds for development. Literally, of course, at ground level, all development is local – though sometimes it’s so big it affects an entire region. The almost-too-many-to-count projects planned or underway in Downtown Atlanta certainly exemplify that: 57 buildings undergoing adaptive reuse in South Downtown, the largest office-to-residential conversion east of the Mississippi at the 2 Peachtree skyscraper, redevelopment and conversion of the historic 1947 Art Moderne building that once housed the Atlanta Constitution into a multifamily mixed-use complex, and the $5 billion redevelopment of 50 acres in the heart of Downtown into a mixed-use neighborhood with a sports and entertainment district.

“We have a count of 24 different projects currently under construction or in the pipeline in the downtown area,” says Kristi Brigman, chief economic development officer at the Metro Atlanta Chamber.