Portman Holdings emerges as front-runner to develop Tech's HPC project

Portman Holdings has emerged as the front-runner to develop a $300 million mixed-use project for Georgia Tech in Midtown’s Technology Square. Portman was competing for the project against another longtime Atlanta real estate company, Cousins Properties Inc. (NYSE: CUZ), Atlanta Business Chronicle reported earlier this year. The project would rise over Tech Square on the site that housed the Crum & Forster building at 4th and Spring streets. It would add up to 750,000 square feet of new development…