New inexperienced area and a revamped atrium in the former NCS Center intention to supply new gathering locations downtown.
Guests mingle forward of an unveiling occasion at The CTR, the former NCS Center, on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, in Atlanta. The former NCS Center in downtown Atlanta has been rebranded and unveiled as The CTR (stylized as “The Center”). CP Group, the property’s homeowners, are remodeling the iconic 1.2-million-square-foot advanced into a large mixed-use hub that includes a revamped meals corridor, experiential leisure, and public artwork. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)
A pair of ribbon-cutting occasions Wednesday aimed to point out downtown Atlanta’s evolution occurring in real-time simply earlier than the metropolis reintroduces itself on the international stage.
City and state leaders gathered in the morning to christen new inexperienced area in Atlanta’s largest cluster of century-old buildings, an space ignored for many years. And in the afternoon, they turned the first folks to reenter a shuttered icon that’s coming into its third period as a downtown centerpiece.
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A visitor arrives forward of an unveiling occasion at The CTR, the former NCS Center, on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, in Atlanta. The former NCS Center in downtown Atlanta has been rebranded and unveiled as The CTR (stylized as “The Center”). CP Group, the property’s homeowners, are remodeling the iconic 1.2-million-square-foot advanced into a large mixed-use hub that includes a revamped meals corridor, experiential leisure, and public artwork. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)
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Guests mingle forward of an unveiling occasion at The CTR, the former NCS Center, on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, in Atlanta. The former NCS Center in downtown Atlanta has been rebranded and unveiled as The CTR (stylized as “The Center”). CP Group, the property’s homeowners, are remodeling the iconic 1.2-million-square-foot advanced into a large mixed-use hub that includes a revamped meals corridor, experiential leisure, and public artwork. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)
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The entrepreneurs main the transformation of a number of blocks of South Downtown held a ribbon reducing for their first inexperienced area on May 20. The signal to the left was excavated from the web site.
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The core 8-acre entertainment district at Centennial Yards was under construction in early 2026. (Courtesy of Centennial Yards)
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Savannah Sicurella is an leisure enterprise reporter with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Zachary Hansen, a Georgia native, covers financial improvement and industrial actual property for the AJC. He’s been with the newspaper since 2018 and enjoys diving into advanced tales that have an effect on folks’s lives.