Jon Birdsong

It was likely in our fourth or fifth tour of South Downtown in late 2023.

We've spent the last two and half years dedicating our careers for this moment and beyond.

Tremendous focus is on the World Cup in less than a hundred days.

If you happen to walk, bike, scooter, or drive by South Broad Street in Atlanta, Georgia anytime between today and the next 4 months, there’s a good chance you’ll see hundreds of construction workers re-stacking bricks on a commercial street that has been…

Never in my right mind would I have ever believed Atlanta needs more tourist options but after looking at the number of visitors, the existing options, and being a user of the overall tourist experience, there is so much more room for growth, particularly…

As we walked across Forsyth Street last October during one of the hundreds of tours last year, someone asked if I had read Nine Days?

When I graduated University of Georgia in 2008 amidst the Great Recession and soon started working for Lisa Borders’ Mayoral Campaign, that year was a crash course in Atlanta geography.

We are moving at Michael Johnson-gold-shoes pace, announcing neighborhood defining restaurants or retail shops seemingly every week.

As Atlanta’s finest assortment of unique, boutique, and local restauranteurs reveal their brave ambitions with banger after banger after banger of announcements putting Atlanta’s culinary food scene on their back, the very simple question we receive often…

I hear or see it every now and then.

The Beltline was even more abuzz with the grand new opening and ceremonial severing of a ribbon at OneTrust’s office opening.

Fifteen months into being CEO of SoDo Atlanta, LLC, the holding company that owns 57 historic buildings, 10 city blocks, and 16 acres of Atlanta’s downtown core, I get asked the same question numerous times a week: “what is the biggest challenge holding o…

Why do some restaurants work and some don't?

An experienced real-estate developer told me the other day, “y’all have a very unique situation going on in downtown.

There have been two times in my career where I observed an entrepreneur start a company and know from day one they were going to execute their exact game plan and crush it.