May 17, 2022 – When MetLife and Granite Properties kicked off a mixed-use project near Atlanta’s cultural epicenter in late 2019, developer John Robbins knew they’d need to find a way to connect with surrounding art museums.
The development team made that connection through a local artist who’s also an architect and poet. Granite, based in Plano, Texas, and MetLife, with its headquarters in New York, commissioned artist Joe Dreher, who goes by @JoeKingATL on Instagram, to paint murals on the sides of two parking decks at their Midtown Union mixed-use project centered on 17th Street in Atlanta.