Tyler Perry Studios is interested in exercising a right to make an offer on the approximate 145 acres of the former Fort McPherson site that it doesn’t already own, according to official text messages from earlier this year.
But so is a developer that’s been publicly working on a plan for about two years.
“I do think that if you see your neighbor’s house burning, don’t tell me you don’t care,” said one attendee.
Fulton County is trying to get inmates out of “boats.” That is, a kind of human-size plastic bin that holds a mattress at night and can be stacked during the day. And it’s what lockups like Fulton’s Rice Street jail use when they’re out of bunks.
The board of the public authority that’s overseeing the redevelopment of Fort McPherson met Thursday for the first time in four months. Its executive director was not present and board members asked about getting more information before they vote on a milestone plan for 145 acres of reconstruction.
The city of Atlanta is suing Atlanta Public Schools, claiming that the schools are not keeping up with payments owed for bonds.
Open Doors is lowering barriers to housing in a hot real estate market, and it’s getting a high-tech assist.
A Fulton County judge says public agencies acted their parts correctly according to law and the Georgia constitution in a complex procedure that will see lots of public money used for a private development.
By a 13 to 2 vote, Atlanta City Council approved a ban on smoking and vaping in nearly all workplaces, including restaurants and the airport.
Cigar bars and hookah lounges will get a carveout.
So far, federal courts in Kentucky and Mississippi have temporarily suspended similar new abortion restrictions while lawsuits play out.
Atlanta’s human resources chief is leaving City Hall — the second top leader lately to head out the door, leaving behind employee complaints.
The property tax funds would normally go to Atlanta, Atlanta Public Schools and Fulton County.
The need is huge: about 75,000 households are on the waiting list for assistance from the city’s public housing authority.
Not quite a year after taking the post, Amol Naik is stepping down as Atlanta’s chief resilience officer.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said people are second-guessing their decisions to work with Atlanta, and called on the media to do more good news.
Even as housing affordability gets a lot of attention, the market forces that have been bearing down on the westside for years already are mighty.
Now MARTA shifts to zooming in on each individual project: turning those thick lines on maps into detailed designs of where exactly to lay a rail, where to build a bus lane, where to set up stations and stops.
“No. 1, we have to have a person of very high integrity in the current situation that we’re in,” Gov. Brian Kemp said.
A Georgia delegation headed by Gov. Brian Kemp is heading to South Korea to pitch the state to companies there, and visit companies that already invest here.
“Because they’re not being collected, those are dollars that are not being used in our communities, and for me, that’s a problem.”
There are joyous riders, angry pedestrians and all kinds of folks in between. If everybody’s going to be accommodated, it’ll take education and courtesy — not enforcement alone.
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