Leasing & Activations Intern

ABOUT THE PLATFORMWe are an Atlanta-based owner-operator of a small portfolio of marquee real estate assets — mixed-use commercial, boutique hospitality, and short- and long-term residential — assembled under a single design-driven thesis. Our approach is closer to a vertically integrated placemaking firm than to a traditional landlord: we own the assets, we set the creative direction, we curate the tenant mix, and we program the experience.We are now hiring a summer intern to work alongside ownership on the most visible asset in the portfolio: a BeltLine-adjacent mixed-use development in the Old Fourth Ward, sitting directly on the Eastside Trail.THE ROLEThis is not a coffee-fetching internship. You will sit next to ownership, work on real deliverables that affect real tenants and real events, and leave the summer with a portfolio of work you can show. We expect you to contribute, not observe.If you are studying real estate, urban planning, hospitality, architecture, design, or business — and you are drawn to placemaking, mixed-use development, and the question of what makes a neighborhood actually work — this is the most interesting summer you can have in Atlanta.WHAT YOU'LL DOTenant Research & Leasing SupportBuild target lists of retail, F&B, and showroom tenants for open bays — research their other locations, their owners, their press, and their fit with the property.Sit in on tenant prospect calls and site visits. Take notes. Draft follow-ups.Help organize the leasing pipeline (CRM hygiene, tenant prospect tracking, broker outreach lists).Tour comparable Atlanta properties — Ponce City Market, Krog Street Market, The Battery, Westside Provisions, Buckhead Village, Colony Square — and write field reports on what they do well and what we should steal.Programming & ActivationHelp plan and execute the summer programming calendar — farmers markets, makers markets, fitness pop-ups, music events.Day-of event support: vendor coordination, setup, signage, troubleshooting, breakdown.Research and reach out to potential partners — local fitness studios, makers collectives, nonprofits, cultural organizations, brand-activation teams.Help maintain the property's social media presence with on-the-ground content during events.Research & Strategy ProjectsEach intern owns one strategic research project across the summer — examples from past summers: a competitive teardown of an Atlanta mixed-use property, a vendor-recruitment plan for a new market series, a feasibility study for a rooftop attraction, a brand-activation rate card.Present findings to ownership at the end of the summer. The best work gets implemented.WHO WE'RE LOOKING FORUndergraduate or graduate student in real estate, urban planning, hospitality, architecture, design, business, or a related field. Rising juniors, rising seniors, and graduate students preferred. Exceptional rising sophomores will be considered.Real interest in placemaking and mixed-use development. If you have followed Jamestown, NAP, Asana, or the Braves Development Company on their portfolios, you already know what we mean.Strong writer. Most of what we ask you to do — research memos, tenant outreach, follow-up emails — is writing.Comfortable with ambiguity. The work changes week to week. The org chart is small. You will be asked to figure things out.Taste matters. If you have a favorite restaurant or building or neighborhood, we want to know why.Atlanta-based for the summer (we will not pay relocation, but the role is local and on-site).WHAT YOU'LL GETA paid internship at competitive market rates for the summer.Direct access to ownership. You will be in the room for real decisions on leasing, programming, design, and partnerships. We will explain why we are doing what we are doing.A real portfolio of work to show. Research projects, event-execution credit, named tenant deals you helped move forward.Atlanta network. Over the summer you will meet brokers, restaurateurs, designers, BeltLine staff, ABI contacts, local artists, and the operators who run other marquee Atlanta properties.A serious reference. If you are good, we will write you the kind of letter that opens doors in real estate, hospitality, design, or business school.First look at full-time roles. As the platform grows, we expect to hire junior full-time staff from our intern cohort.LOGISTICS10–12 weeks, full-time, on-site at the property and at our offices. Start date flexible between mid-May and early June. Includes weekend hours during events; comp time provided. Paid hourly, with a target total of $6,000–$9,000 across the summer depending on hours and experience level.HOW TO APPLYSend a resume and a short note. The note matters more than the resume. Tell us:One Atlanta property you think gets it right, and one specific thing about it you would steal for a new development.One thing you have built, run, or organized — a campus event, a club, a small business, a research project. Anything where you owned the outcome.What you want to learn this summer.Applications reviewed on a rolling basis. We expect to hire one to two interns for summer 2026.