If you were hoping to snag office space in Ponce City Market’s newest showpiece, you are out of luck. Sage, the U.K.-based accounting and HR software company, has officially expanded its North American headquarters to take over every office floor at 619 Ponce. With that move, there is now zero office availability left in the four-story mass-timber building that hugs the Atlanta BeltLine.
619 Ponce Is Now Officially Off The Market
Sage is leasing the building’s entire office stack, roughly 89,000 square feet, giving the company room to add up to 200 employees on top of an Atlanta workforce that already sits at about 450, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The expansion follows Sage’s initial move into 619 Ponce last year, when it occupied about two-thirds of the office floors. The paper reports that CBRE represented Jamestown and Cushman & Wakefield represented Sage in the deal.
A Timber First For Atlanta
The four-story 619 Ponce opened in 2024 and was built largely from Southern yellow pine harvested and processed in Georgia, part of Jamestown’s push to establish a regional mass-timber supply chain, according to Jamestown. The developer bills the project as a first-of-its-kind locally sourced mass-timber office in the Southeast and says the building is targeting net-zero ready, LEED and Fitwel certifications. On the ground floor, an 18,000-square-foot Pottery Barn anchors the retail lineup, layering in amenities for both employees and neighbors.
High-End Build-Outs And Record-Setting Rents
Sage’s headquarters build-out at 619 Ponce was pegged at about $12 million, or roughly $230 per square foot, a price tag that highlights just how expensive top-tier interiors have become, as reported by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. That coverage also noted that similar deals in the area are helping push office rents toward all-time highs, with some transactions reportedly approaching $70 per square foot.
What It Means For The Market
In a market where overall office vacancy remains stubbornly elevated, Sage’s deal is a reminder that well-designed, amenity-heavy space on the BeltLine can still draw serious corporate demand. Coverage from NAIOP positions 619 Ponce as a case study in how locally sourced mass timber and sustainability-focused branding can stand out for tenants and start to reshape regional construction supply chains, not just the look and feel of new projects, according to NAIOP.
Local Reaction
“The past year at Ponce City Market has shown us exactly why Atlanta is the right home for Sage in North America,” Mark Hickman said in a company statement quoted by the AJC. In its own release, Jamestown’s asset team said it looks forward to seeing Sage’s team “thrive as an integral part of the community,” underscoring the developer’s bet that experience-first offices will keep landing big-name tenants.
