Georgia Tech Formally Breaks Floor on Tech Sq. Section 3

Leaders flip over the primary grime on the website of the longer term Tech Sq. Section 3 towers.

Georgia Tech formally kicked off the development that may additional increase the Institute’s footprint in Midtown Atlanta. The groundbreaking ceremony for Tech Sq. Section 3 occurred within the shadow of buildings like Coda, Centergy, and the Know-how Sq. Analysis Constructing the place Tech has quickly cultivated one of many nation’s fastest-growing enterprise and expertise ecosystems.

This third section of Know-how Sq. can be anchored by two multi-story towers. The whole venture is deliberate so as to add greater than 400,000+ sq. toes of latest house for analysis and collaboration. The first buildings located on the location, positioned on the blocks between fifth, Spring, and West Peachtree Streets, will each be named for philanthropists who’ve performed a significant position in advancing Georgia Tech’s mission of progress and repair.  One tower named for principal donor Ernest Scheller, would be the new residence of graduate and govt teaching programs of the Scheller Faculty of Enterprise. The second tower can be named George Tower, in recognition of Invoice and Penny George, and can home the nation’s top-ranked industrial engineering program.

Georgia Tech reworked deserted and blighted areas throughout the Midtown/Downtown Connector to open Know-how Sq. in 2003. The second section 21-story Coda Constructing opened in 2019 and has drawn extra top-tier tech firms to work as near Georgia Tech’s campus as attainable.

“A profitable innovation ecosystem requires not simply good {hardware} — the appropriate buildings in the appropriate areas — but additionally good software program: the appropriate expertise and packages and a tradition of innovation,” stated President Ángel Cabrera on the groundbreaking ceremony.

Tech alumnus and Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens was additionally available to rejoice the launch of the transformative venture.

“Metro Atlanta’s various and thriving tech business is the envy of many, and Tech Sq. has helped make {that a} actuality.” Dickens stated. 



Since 2021, firms together with Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Micron, Airbnb, and Nike have made vital investments to increase their presence within the neighborhood.

“Having this collaboration right here between firms and one of many world’s nice tutorial establishments and totally different departments is essential,” stated George, a graduate of Tech’s industrial engineering program.

“The brand new amenities of Tech Sq. Section 3 will supply our college students the flexibility to study, collaborate, and develop in a brand new, progressive surroundings. Due to the generosity and help of our group, we at the moment are higher positioned than ever earlier than to meet our mission of cultivating principled enterprise leaders who thrive in a tech-driven world,’ stated Dean Maryam Alavi of the Scheller Faculty of Enterprise.

Tech’s enterprise packages have been rising and increasing, persistently rating among the many prime 20 nationally. 



“Dean Alavi and the Scheller faculty staff have persistently been transferring up the ladder and have primary for all the faculty properly nearby. This new tower ought to give a giant enhance towards that objective,” stated Ernest Scheller.

College System of Georgia Chancellor Sonny Perdue joined to assist flip over the primary shovels of earth the place the towers will quickly sit. 



“These kinds of initiatives are taking place across the state, and it’s the scholars that we’re impacting,” stated Perdue. 



Jeb Stewart, a Georgia Tech graduate and son of Milton H. Stewart, the namesake of Tech’s college of commercial engineering, acknowledged the optimistic momentum this groundbreaking represented.

“Hope can begin with issues like training and alternative—issues which can be going to occur in these buildings,” Stewart stated.

“A whole bunch of years from now when folks come to Midtown and see these buildings, they’ll know they had been constructed for college students to study and be innovators,” stated President Cabrera. 


Along with the tutorial amenities, Tech Sq. Section 3 will even embody a big out of doors plaza with street-level retail and an underground parking deck. Challenge companions embody structure from sales space Rule Pleasure Trammell + Rubio (RJTR) and Eskew Dumez Ripple and Turner Building. The brand new improvement is deliberate to open in 2026.