Downtown’s former NCS Center is roughly three months away from a reopening and revival designed to persuade guests and Atlantans to come back again to the landmark property and linger longer, based on house owners CP Group.
Billed as “common ground” for the town and downtown’s latest gathering place, the rechristened The Center (or The CTR for brief) is constructing out a 12-concept meals corridor created by Robert Montwaid and has signed a preferred steakhouse and seafood restaurant as its eating anchor.
The ground-floor additions and different adjustments are actually scheduled to open in May, to align with the constructing’s fiftieth anniversary, based on CP Group officers. Atlanta’s 2026 FIFA World Cup matches will start the next month.
Elsewhere across the property, a $50-million funding in a new “arrival experience” and exterior renovations has wrapped, whereas one other $15 million in atrium work is scheduled to complete earlier than the May reopening, per CP Group reps.
The restaurant anchor, Mastro’s Ocean Club, has signed on to take an 8,200-square-foot floor ground area, including to places in Manhattan, Miami, and Newport Beach. It’s forecasted to open in mid-2026.
The 12-concept eating corridor, in the meantime, will probably be known as CTR Food Works.
Interior designs deliberate for CTR Food Works downtown. Courtesy of CP Group
The 24,000-square-foot area will embrace the most important bar in Atlanta. Montwaid, who earned recognition as creator of Gansevoort Market in New York and later Chattahoochee Food Works in Atlanta, has signed a long-term lease to curate and function CTR Food Works.
Beyond the full-service bar, confirmed eating places scheduled to open in time for FIFA World Cup festivities embrace:
• La Tropical (Latin kitchen)
• Fuzzy’s (seafood)
• Patty & Frank’s (burgers and scorching canine)
• Mimi Taqueria (Mexican)
• Flora D’Italia (Italian, pizza-forward)
• Dessert Box (bakery)
According to CP Group, The CTR may also serve throughout World Cup as dwelling base for ATL House—the Atlanta Host Committee’s personal headquarters and occasion area, in collaboration with the Metro Atlanta Chamber—and is already functioning because the official FIFA World Cup 2026 Atlanta Volunteer Headquarters.
The property’s new arts and culture platform, known as CTR Culture, continues to increase in partnership with ASHA Advisory, an area community-focused arts and tradition group. That work contains public artwork, experiential activations, and cultural programming at The CTR.
How The Center’s revised atrium is predicted to look and performance quickly. Courtesy of CP Group; designs, TVS; ASD/SKY
Two latest examples of CTR Culture’s inaugural billboard marketing campaign.Courtesy of ASHA Advisory
The shift from development to debuts will convey a former void in downtown’s city cloth again to life, stated Chris Eachus, a CP Group founding accomplice.
“For decades, this building functioned as a fortress,” stated Eachus in an replace as we speak. “With the building opening back up to the city, we are reconnecting one of Atlanta’s landmarks with the people and energy of downtown—allowing it to become something Atlantans can truly claim as their own, and bringing it back as a destination.”
Across Atlanta’s three core submarkets, CP Group now controls more than 8 million sq. ft of area. Renovations on the firm’s different trophy properties—Bank of America Plaza and Piedmont Center in Buckhead—are ongoing. Hines is main retail leasing and serving to information The CTR’s redevelopment technique downtown, per CP Group.
Find more visuals and context for The CTR within the gallery above.
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