The new Arthur M. Blank Family Residences building is complete and will soon welcome its first guests. The 16-story tower is located just south of the Shepherd Center at 1860 Peachtree Road. Part of an extensive $360 million expansion and renovation of the Shepherd Center, the tower will double the Center’s housing with 165 new accessible units.
According to the Shepherd Center, “The new housing tower will allow families and day program patients who are receiving life-storing neurorehabilitation at the hospital and who live more than 60 miles from Shepherd Center to stay in donor-funded housing for the full duration of their loved one’s rehabilitation, helping ease the financial and emotional burden of being away from home.”
The new tower was officially opened in August of 2024, and will begin hosting patients and their families in October.
Home Depot co-founder and owner of the Atlanta Falcons, Arthur Blank is a long-time Shepherd Center donor. The Blank Family Foundation awarded a $50 million grant to fund the new Family Residences building. Earlier this year, Arthur Blank said in a statement. “Our family foundation is honored to support Shepherd Center in helping more families heal together. We hope that having a safe, accessible place to call home here in Atlanta while they are away from their own homes will help lift the incredible burden of these types of trauma in some small way so that families and patients can focus on their healing and each other at a time when that is the most important and most needed.”
Ongoing expansion
Shepherd Center improvements include renovation of the Center’s main campus to modernize patient rooms and expand the Center’s capacity, and the new Marcus Center for Advanced Rehabilitation.
The Marcus Center for Advanced Rehabilitation next door to the main Shepherd Center building is expected to open in early 2025. Funded by an $80 million grant from longtime supporter The Marcus Foundation, the new 30,000-square-foot Innovation Institute will allow the Shepherd Center to expand its day programs and outpatient services. Like his fellow Home Depot co-founder, Bernie Marcus and his wife Billi have been supporting the Shepherd Center for decades.
