After breaking ground in early 2022, an increasingly rare new office tower has officially been completed in Midtown, offering what Portman officials describe as the design, quality and atmosphere of the world-class hotels the company has developed around the world for decades.
Located between Spring Street and the Downtown Connector, Ten Twenty Spring Tower (formerly 1020 Spring) spans 25 stories. It is (for now) the latest and final piece of current development in Portman's Spring Quarter complex, which has transformed an entire city block while maintaining a historic landmark at its core.
Portman officials are calling the glass-clad Class A office tower a first for Atlanta because it features huge floor panels like blank canvases measuring 32,000 square feet or more, surrounded by 10-foot-tall windows that frame views of the skyline from floor to ceiling.
In addition to future restaurants, the building's amenities include 15,000 square feet of private terraces for tenants seeking fresh air in a post-pandemic world.
The juxtaposition of the modernist office tower with the historic HM Patterson Home and Gardens immediately to the east. Courtesy of Portman
Outdoor area on the highest floors of the building, as seen from the Connector. Courtesy of Portman
Tenant leisure areas cover an additional 20,000 square meters and include a lounge, an indoor and outdoor bar, views of the city skyline and 10,000 square meters of green space.
Portman built Ten Twenty Spring custom-built, meaning without an anchor tenant. Company representatives said AJC No office tenants have been signed and monthly rents are expected to be in the high $40s to low $50s per square foot.
No other office building in the Atlanta market “does and will not provide a more integrated, activated and comfortable office experience in a mixed-use environment.” [one] for several years,” Portman CEO Travis Garland said in an announcement.
“As demand returns,” Garland continued, “particularly for new leases with large block requirements, we know potential clients will recognize the competitive advantages of having an office in Spring Quarter’s modern and energetic mixed-use environment.”
Outdoor seating at sunset on the north facade of the office tower above the parking decks. Courtesy of Portman
The Portman project is not the only major office project to be built in the city and inner suburbs this year.
Others include Georgia Tech's Science Square laboratory tower (370,000 square feet), the initial phase of Dunwoody's Campus 244 (405,000 square feet), and the new national headquarters of Truist Securities (250,000 square feet) at The Battery Atlanta, directly in front of the Braves Stadium.
But at around 530,000 square feet, Portman's Ten Twenty Spring is clearly the largest among them.
At the building's restaurant front, a Japanese modern concept from esteemed chef Fuyuhiko Ito called Sozou, called Sozou, is set to open on the ground floor next summer. This team also plans to open a rooftop concept on the eighth floor called Omakase by Ito.
How the parking levels above the office entrance, lobby and restaurant areas were screened. Courtesy of Portman
The 530,000-square-foot building fits into the Midtown skyline, which has rapidly filled up over the past 12 years. Courtesy of Portman
As for the rest of the multifaceted Spring Quarter project, Portman officials said this week that Sora, the 370-unit, 30-story luxury apartment tower above 10th Street, is now 94 percent leased after opening last fall.
An acclaimed contemporary Louisiana Mexican restaurant, Habaneros, is now on track to open next spring in a large corner retail space on the ground floor of Sora, according to Portman officials. Atlanta-based cardio concept Pepper Boxing has secured another street-level spot.
Located in the heart of the Spring Quarter, the historic HM Patterson Mortuary Gardens are open to the public and future office tenants. The terraces and paseos are designed to weave the heritage property into entrances for the new towers around it.
Below is the last parcel of the Spring Quarter, just north of the mortuary. Portman's plans initially called for a hotel and later more residential buildings, but all construction work was put on hold for the time being. Courtesy of Portman
Steve Palmer, Atlanta native and founder of Indigo Road Hospitality Group, was announced last year as the restaurateur who will lease and remodel all 24,000 square feet of the historic building HM Patterson House and Gardens from the mortuary to a place where you can enjoy multi-faceted food and drink from morning to evening and is scheduled to open next year.
Indigo Road is the Charleston-based company behind local concepts like O-KU in West Midtown, Oak Steakhouse in Avalon and Sukoshi in Colony Square.
For a detailed look at the exterior of the newest Spring Quarter tower and how it relates to the rest of the project, see the gallery above.
[CORRECTION: 7:50 p.m., Dec. 3: A previous headline on this story incorrectly stated the number of photos included.]
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