The suburban skyline around Atlanta’s Central Perimeter is about to look very different. Aging office towers in the Brookhaven–Dunwoody–Sandy Springs cluster are being teed up for demolition or residential conversion, shrinking the pool of modern office space and forcing brokers and employers to rethink where they will find big, contiguous blocks in the years ahead.
According to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, a growing stack of proposals across the Perimeter would either convert or tear down existing office buildings. Dunwoody officials say two of the city’s office properties are already expected to become housing, as developers and owners float everything from for-sale condos to age-restricted rentals as replacements. Each project helps chip away at the older office inventory still on the market.
The timing is not exactly relaxing for tenants. Partners Real Estate reports that Central Perimeter led the Atlanta region in office leasing in the first quarter of 2026 and notes that conversions and redevelopment have already helped trim vacant space. The combination of stronger demand for quality offices and the removal of obsolete product is tightening availability for companies that need several full floors in one shot.
Developers target Dunwoody campus
One of the splashiest examples sits in Dunwoody. Workspace Property Trust’s Perimeter campus is in line to shed roughly 600,000 square feet of offices as its 64 and 66 Perimeter Center East buildings pivot to residential use. As ConnectCRE reports, the concept would deliver about 441 homes, split into roughly 214 for-sale condominiums, 126 age-restricted rental units and 101 townhomes, with additional ground-up housing on adjacent parcels…