Some use cases where you may need to have a data mart project with your data warehouse:
You want to separate the data for your reporting by business area: for example, you can make a Data Mart project with the business data for the Financial area and another one for the Sales area.
You choose a Data Vault modeling for your Data Warehouse and your reporting tool accept only dimensional approach: you can transform the business objects in Entities and Facts instead of Hubs, Links and Satellites.