Chain hotel enters pipeline on Buckhead’s main drag

Josh Green

Fri, 01/24/2025 – 12:16

Just north of Midtown, a longtime void in the landscape of Buckhead’s main commercial thoroughfare could soon be filled.

Hilton representatives have filed paperwork with Atlanta’s Department of City Planning for a Special Administrative Permit to starting building an eight-story hotel. It would rise at an 1875 Peachtree Road site that’s seen other infill ideas go bust over the years.

Plans call for the vacant lot to become a Home2 Suites by Hilton, an extended-stay chain, with 174 keys, according to the SAP paperwork.

The hotel would join a significant medical-use growth spurt in the immediate area, highlighted by the new 16-story Arthur M. Blank Family Residences and Marcus Center for Advanced Rehabilitation building.

The .6-acre site was cleared of a small retail building and SunTrust ATM in 2016 and served as a paid parking lot for several years thereafter. Longtime Atlantans might remember it as a Harry’s in a Hurry location way back when.

Today the site is situated between Peachtree Laundry & Cleaners and a drive-thru Starbucks.

Looking north, the 1875 Peachtree Road site in the context of Piedmont Hospital’s main campus. Google Maps

The proposed north face of the Home2 Suites by Hilton lends an idea of the project’s scale. Phoenix Developers; Pappageorge Haymes Partners architects

A rendering filed with the application indicates Phoenix Development Partners and architecture firm Pappageorge Haymes Partners, both based in Chicago, are putting the hotel project together. It would rise just south of Piedmont Hospital’s artfully curved, 16-story Marcus Heart and Vascular Center.

According to the SAP application, the hotel “will be an integral part of the medical ecosystem in the immediate area” and “will help service patients and families of patients receiving care in the nearby medical facilities.”

The building’s single point of access along the busy thoroughfare would be a right-in, right-out arrangement along the hotel’s Peachtree Road frontage. Surface parking would be situated at the rear of the property, per filings.

The site, situated between Peachtree Laundry & Cleaners and a drive-thru Starbucks. Google Maps

A hearing date for the SAP application has been set for March 27, according to the city.

A decade ago, the parcel in question was planned to be part of a much larger office and retail complex from Cornerstone Development Partners that never took off.

The 1875 Peachtree Road site (in red, at bottom) and nearby commercial and medical landmarks. Google Maps