Last week, the Midtown Alliance announced that a new innovation center, office and lab space will occupy four stories of Tower Square’s main building located at 675 West Peachtree in Midtown. The Center for Global Health Innovation (CGHI) plans to open the new spaces in early 2022 and will utilize an additional 75,000 square feet as a conference center at an adjacent building located above the North Avenue MARTA station.
According to the press release, the health innovation center is expected to generate new jobs, accelerate investment in the neighborhood, and attract new businesses. The Global Health Innovation District results from 60 Atlanta global health leaders and 200 community volunteers across organizations such as the Metro Atlanta Chamber, Deloitte, Georgia Bio, and the Georgia Global Health Alliance, the latter two of which merged to form CGHI. The district is a first-of-its-kind physical hub of collaboration, discovery, and invention that will unite leaders in the global health, life sciences, and technology sectors and will create a nexus for global health advancement, where members and visitors can convene and collaborate in a principal place that stimulates, facilitates, and accelerates innovation, R&D, and collaboration.
The initiative lands in Midtown Atlanta’s thriving environment of anchor institutions bridging technology, healthcare, and the arts. Some 30K jobs have come to Midtown since 2015 by way of companies expanding or relocating, with many podium remarks from prior announcements citing the district’s access to talent and unique urban amenities according to a statement issued by Midtown Alliance.
“This is a remarkable feather in Midtown’s cap,” City Councilperson Farokhi said of CGHI’s announcement. “This is a neighborhood that is humming and thriving in ways that few urban areas in the country are. It is already the commercial and cultural hub of the South, and I don’t say that lightly. Now with Tech Square, I think it is in many ways the innovation hub of the South as well.”
“This will attract new investments and businesses to come and work, incredible organizations, and life sciences is one of the fastest growing sectors in this country,” Mayor-elect Dickens said.
