Author Archives: Delaney Tarr

As she stood in front of her new home in Atlanta Habitat for Humanity’s Browns Mill Village, a teary-eyed Jameka Gray recalled one of her last conversations with her late father.  “[My father] said “Jameka, you work too hard to be renting, you need to own,”” Gray said.  Gray is one of Atlanta’s newest homeowners […]

Atlanta’s five City Council at-large Post 3 candidates sat down to talk policies and answer questions at the Oct. 3 Center for Civic Innovation Candidate Forum ahead of November’s special election. 

On any given night, Underground Atlanta draws in all sorts of city culture and entertainment: concerts, bars, bonfires, burlesque and nightlife are what the long-standing downtown center is known for.  Soon, that might include a 30-story tower of apartments atop the complex with Underground’s first new build in decades. On Sept. 19, 2024, Invest Atlanta’s […]

Atlanta’s cycling community is gearing up for a “game-changing” municipal bike park after the Chestnut Family Foundation donated $8 million to the Atlanta Beltline, Inc. project.  The park is set to be the first of its kind in Atlanta: an all-ages and all skill-level set of terrain and obstacles for mountain bikers, cyclists and hikers. […]

Atlanta’s mental health and family services nonprofit named Cati Diamond Stone as the successor to Kathy Colbenson’s 37-year tenure as the President and CEO of CHRIS 180.  Stone will start the position Oct. 7, 2024, kicking off a new chapter for the influential area nonprofit. She comes from Susan G. Komen, the world’s largest breast […]

The Norcross City Council paused plans to condemn the historic Norcross Woman’s Club building at a Sept. 3 meeting, tabling the contentious move weeks after the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation announced its acquisition of the 100-year-old property.  In early August, the now-disbanded Woman’s Club donated the historic library and clubhouse to the Georgia Trust […]

The Atlanta Business League hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Historic Ashby Theatre’s renovation on Aug. 29, kicking off a long-standing plan to transform the historic building into a community and business hub in Westside Atlanta.  Over the next few weeks, architects and engineers will pioneer the first phase: program planning and designing the direction […]

After a postponed July 10 vote, the Atlanta Regional Commission Board held a special meeting to approve the 2024 population estimates, metropolitan planning organization boundaries and an amendment to the Transportation Improvement Program. The Transportation Improvement Program is a document that maps out the region’s transportation projects through 2050. The amendment approved on August 28 […]

At the Aug. 22 Invest Atlanta and Urban Residential Finance Authority board meeting, the city’s economic development authority green-lit over $180 million in bonds, loans and grant funds to various affordable housing projects. It’s part of an ongoing city goal to create and preserve 20,000 affordable housing units by 2030.  In May, Invest Atlanta announced […]

Atlanta’s Streets Alive said farewell to Peachtree Street for the rest of 2024, ending a summer series of open streets on Aug. 18. Atlanta Streets Alive ended its summer series on Peachtree Street on a breezy Sunday on Aug. 18, the last open streets event in the area before kicking off a route from the […]

After a years-long effort to find a safe harbor for the Norcross Woman’s Club’s old library and clubhouse, its members have donated the building to the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation as part of an adaptive reuse project.  It’s the most valuable property ever donated to the Trust and a rarity for their Revolving Fund […]

Atlanta leaders gathered in the atrium of City Hall on August 13 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of an integral part of the community: The Neighborhood Planning Unit Project.  The advisory committees spread across the city have long been essential tools for civic engagement and an easy way for the Atlanta government to gain local […]