Midtown's Tallest Tower Since 1990s Nearly Ready

The Alina skyscraper on West Peachtree is about to open as Atlanta's tallest new building in three decades. TVS architects are revealing more details about the tower's design, which aims to create welcoming spaces for Midtown's workers, residents, and visitors. It's a big bet that people still want to live and work in high-rise towers downtown.

After four years of construction and plenty of skepticism about Atlanta's office market, the Alina tower on West Peachtree is almost ready for its debut. At 1,072 feet, it's officially the tallest building erected in Atlanta since the early 1990s, and its opening will be a major test of whether people still want to live and work in the sky.

TVS, the Atlanta architecture firm behind landmarks like the Georgia Dome and Omni Coliseum, designed Alina to feel more connected and welcoming than your typical corporate tower. They're talking about creating spaces that serve the broader Midtown community, not just the people who live and work there. Given how many office towers are sitting half-empty these days, that community-focused approach might be smart.

The timing is interesting. Midtown has held up better than Downtown during the pandemic, but even there, the old assumptions about office demand don't hold. Alina will be a high-profile test of whether Atlanta can still pull off the kind of ambitious development that made it a major city in the first place.