By April, the concrete footings and piers for a suspension bridge over Peachtree Creek were finished. This was the piece of the Atlanta BeltLine's Northwest Trail meant to reach the edge of Peachtree Hills, an 0.8-mile stretch running from Peachtree Park Drive across the creek to a cul-de-sac at Kinsey Court. Over the summer, the BeltLine's own construction updates announced that the bridge had an engineering problem serious enough that crews would need to tear out three tiers of the elevated trail and rebuild the crossing from the piers up.

Along Peachtree Hills Avenue, the neighborhood has a newer addition to point to. Krog Bar, the coal-fired pizzeria at ADAC West, has been serving since last August, in the same stretch where chef Kevin Rathbun has run KR Steakbar since 2013. The bridge is a longer project on a longer timeline, and the two stories together show what Peachtree Hills looks like this fall.

What the Northwest Trail Was Supposed to Do

The BeltLine broke ground on this segment in November 2024, and the guest list at the ceremony tells you how much weight the neighborhood put on it. Mayor Andre Dickens was there, along with City Council member Mary Norwood, whose District 9 includes Peachtree Hills, and John Matthews, president of the Peachtree Hills Civic Association. The plan called for a suspension bridge over Peachtree Creek, connecting the trail on the Peachtree Park Apartments side to Kinsey Court, which sits at the edge of Peachtree Hills. It was framed as the neighborhood's first real at-grade link to the BeltLine's Northwest Trail, a corridor that will eventually run 4.3 miles from Blandtown to the Lindbergh and Morosgo neighborhoods, threading through Ardmore Park, Brookwood Hills, Collier Hills, and Peachtree Hills along the way.

Keith Kimmel, president of property operations at AIR Communities, which manages Peachtree Park Apartments, put the stakes in plain terms at the time: "This new segment of the BeltLine will enhance connectivity, greenspace and quality of life for everyone in the community." The land deal that made the segment possible also included the BeltLine's first acquisition along the Peachtree corridor itself, a signal that this piece of trail was treated as a priority, not an afterthought.

The Crossing's Revised Plan

For the first four months of 2026, the monthly BeltLine construction reports told a consistent story. The apartment side of the trail became usable for Peachtree Park residents in April. All of the below-grade infrastructure was finished. The concrete for the elevated trail's footings and piers was poured and complete. The remaining piece was the bridge itself, and the target kept slipping, first to 2027 or early 2028, then to early 2028, then to fall 2028.

By June, the story changed shape. The BeltLine's update that month disclosed that the bridge over Peachtree Creek had a significant engineering issue and would need to be removed and rebuilt by the contractor. The July update confirmed the plan: demolition was scheduled to resume in August, and three tiers of the already-built elevated trail would come out along with it, so a new suspension bridge design, reported as 60 percent complete on paper, could eventually go in. The target completion moved to mid-2028.

As of the summer updates, part of what was built this spring is scheduled to come down before the new bridge goes in, and the crossing's target has moved into 2028. The BeltLine's monthly reports document each step of that change.

Three Doors on Peachtree Hills Avenue That Didn't Wait

While that timeline stretched out, the corner of Peachtree Hills Avenue that Rathbun has occupied since 2013 finished exactly what it said it would. KR Steakbar opened there in February of that year, followed a couple of years later by The Bureau, a speakeasy tucked into the same building. Rathbun had built his name a decade earlier at Rathbun's in Inman Park, opened in 2004, with the original Krog Bar following in 2005 as a wine and tapas spot on Krog Street. Both of those Inman Park restaurants closed in 2020.

Krog Bar didn't stay closed. In August 2025, it reopened inside ADAC West at 349 Peachtree Hills Avenue, in a space that had previously belonged to interior design firm Harmonious Living by Tish Mills, which relocated to the main Atlanta Decorative Arts Center campus. The new Krog Bar occupies about 950 square feet and seats 28 people inside, with room for 20 more on a garden patio. The menu runs eight New Haven-style coal-fired pizzas, including the Margherita, the Pomodoro, a pie named the KROG, a Clam pizza, and the Isabella, alongside panini, salads, and a full bar built around Italian wine. It's open Monday through Saturday, closed Sundays, a detail that matters if you're planning a walk over there on a whim.

Three concepts from one chef now share the same address on Peachtree Hills Avenue, with Krog Bar the most recent to join.

The Rest of the Walk

The rest of Peachtree Hills' commercial footprint has held its shape around that corner. Richard's Variety Store, a family-owned shop that's been a neighborhood fixture for decades, still anchors the kind of errand run that has nothing to do with the BeltLine's schedule. Whitehall Tavern, at 2391 Peachtree Road, keeps its name from a pub that predates the Civil War and still serves the kind of pub menu, wings, nachos, and a Dirty Bird sandwich built on grilled chicken and pimento cheese, that makes it a game-day default. A few doors down, the Buckhead outpost of Roshambo, a Michelin-recognized ramen spot at 2355 Peachtree Road, gives the neighborhood a different kind of night out entirely. At the north end, the Publix-anchored Peachtree Battle Shopping Center still functions as the neighborhood's practical center of gravity, the place where the grocery run and the coffee run happen in the same trip.

These are long-running fixtures along Peachtree Road and Peachtree Hills Avenue, and they give the newer additions an established stretch to join.

What Actually Moves Here

The BeltLine's monthly updates show the Peachtree Creek crossing moving from an estimate of 2027 or early 2028 to a target of mid-2028, with a rebuilt suspension bridge as the reason. On Peachtree Hills Avenue, Krog Bar has been part of the block for just over a year, and the trail will join a neighborhood that already has a good deal happening at street level.

Krog Bar's 28 indoor seats and 20-seat patio are open Monday through Saturday, and the BeltLine posts Northwest Trail progress each month.

If you're thinking about what a home in Peachtree Hills is actually worth this year, on a block where the daily life keeps changing faster than the infrastructure does, Nadine Lutz can walk you through it street by street.