Atlanta City Scoop: Construction Starts Should Increase in 2021

After 2020 slowdown, Atlanta should see an increase in new construction contracts in 2021

Dodge Data & Analytics expects all three major construction categories to experience growth in the coming year.

City Grill

Michael Dominici
Executive Vice President
The Circle Group

Though the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Atlanta’s construction market in 2020, Dominici reports that the fourth quarter produced a wave of project pursuits for area contractors, with “a healthy backlog of projects of all types in the budgeting and preconstruction stage,” he says. While the retail sector was affected by the pandemic, Dominici believes Atlanta’s population growth will spur a 2021 rebound in that sector as well as in the multifamily, health care, higher education and K-12 markets, among others.

Firm in Focus

The Circle Group
1275 Alderman Drive, Alpharetta, Ga.
President: Jerry Marchelletta
Southeast Employees: 200
Founded: 1993
Current work: The wall and ceiling contractor is currently working on the Nobu Hotel project in Atlanta’s Phipps Plaza. The building will feature 150 rooms and a 10,000-sq-ft restaurant.