Midtown Alliance: Global Health Innovation District Launches At Midtown's Tower Square 

Press release from Midtown Atlanta:

New hub expected to bring jobs, investment and businesses to the area.

“You can’t just wave a magic wand and make a building appear, but in this case it’s almost like we did, because sitting right there at the intersection of Tech Square moving south and ‘health square’ marching north is a vacant 47-story tower complex,” Clark Dean, Executive Managing Director at Transwestern In Atlanta, said in a statement.

The health innovation hub is expected to generate jobs, accelerate investment and attract new businesses to the area. CGHI aims for it to become the intersection of global health, health technology and life sciences. An unspecified amount of investment from Sharecare, Transwestern and an anonymous West Coast foundation helped fund the hub’s launch.

The Global Health Innovation District is the result of an effort by 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 CHGI.

The initiative lands in Midtown Atlanta’s thriving ecosystem 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.

The announcement event was attended by City of Atlanta Mayor-Elect Andre Dickens, City Councilperson Amir Farokhi, City Council President-Elect Doug Shipman along with leadership from Sharecare, Transwestern, the Metro Atlanta Chamber and more.

"This is a remarkable feather in Midtown's cap,” 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," Dickens said. "I stand here today as Atlanta shows itself again to be a leader on the global stage."

This press release was produced by Midtown Atlanta. The views expressed here are the author’s own.