Historic Oakland Cemetery is expanding its efforts to share information about the restoration of the African American Grounds section of the city’s cemetery. Two guided tours are scheduled this week, on Wednesday and Saturday. Admission is free and registration is required.
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Journalist who fought coal ash dump in Jesup wins Greenlaw’s Environmental Championship Award
Newspaper co-owner and president Dink NeSmith and The Press-Sentinel, of Jesup, will receive Greenlaw’s Special Media Recognition for Environmental Championship Award for their efforts to expose plans for a coal ash dump in Wayne County. The dump’s operator withdrew its 2015 application in April.
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Atlanta City Design Project to be presented to stakeholders in 410-page book
Now that the Atlanta City Design Project is nearing completion, Atlanta is making arrangements to present the proposal to stakeholders in a 410-page book that’s to be as expansive as the massive proposal to plan for the city’s next 20 years of anticipated growth and development.
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Atlanta funds $26 million to expand homelessness initiative devised under Mayor Reed
It took four years, but Atlanta has allocated significant funding – up to $26 million – for an initiative Mayor Kasim Reed announced in 2013 to reduce homelessness in the city. This money is the city’s payment into a fund that’s expected to reach a total of $115.6 million.
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Can’t make the note: Commercial properties fall behind, Stonecrest retail hit hard
All those empty storefronts, offices and apartments around metro Atlanta have propelled the region to ninth in the nation in the balance of securitized commercial real-estate loans that are delinquent, according to a new report from real estate provider Trepp Inc. The hardest hit area is the newly formed city of Stonecrest.
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Joe Beasley’s latest efforts: Drinking water in Somaliland, human rights in Columbia
Atlanta human rights activist Joe Beasley’s latest projects involve helping provide water to the people of drought-stricken Somaliland and advancing the human rights of black folks in some countries in South America.
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Atlanta recognizes top performers in Better Buildings Challenge as fate of national program seems unclear
On the heels of reports that rank Atlanta among cities with the most green buildings, the city of Atlanta and its partners have recognized nearly 80 buildings that are leaders in the Atlanta Better Buildings Challenge.
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MARTA dreams of converting dull to destination at King Memorial Station
Now that MARTA has secured a deal to develop homes and shops next to the King Memorial Station, MARTA is seeking an artist to energize the tunnel that will be the only pedestrian route to the station from the planned development.
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Georgia’s gamble on film industry continues to pay off
Gov. Nathan Deal’s trade mission to Hollywood in 2015 evidently continues to reap benefits. Deal announced the film industry generated $9.5 billion of economic impact for the fiscal year that ended June 30. That’s up from the $7 billion in economic impact for the previous fiscal year.
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Financial literacy: ‘It’s not about how big your paycheck is; it’s what you do with it’
David Malone says he learned more than he ever expected from the SunTrust financial literacy program offered by his employer. The program might even prove to be life changing, depending on how he and his wife decide to implement its lessons.
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Metro Atlanta ranks third in green buildings as Trump proposes to defund Energy Star Program
Metro Atlanta has climbed to third place on the fourth annual Green Building Adoption Index, an index led by CBRE, a real estate firm. But the big news appears in at the start of the executive summary – regarding the potential demise of the green building movement.
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Atlanta now a national poster child in homeless debate for closure of Peachtree/Pine shelter
Atlanta is the national poster child chosen by a digital affiliate of The Atlantic magazine to illustrate the challenge of providing for the homeless. The news hook was the pending closure of the shelter at the corner of Peachtree and Pine streets.
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Maynard Jackson’s burial site now marked with an obelisk of honed black granite
The widow of former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson’s family has unveiled a monument at his burial site in Atlanta’s Historic Oakland Cemetery – a 14.5-foot black obelisk made of honed granite from Africa.
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I-85 collapse prompted greater use of telecommuting, transit: CBRE report
A new report from the real estate firm CBRE on lessons learned from the collapse of Interstate 85 in Atlanta shows that telecommuting played a greater role than MARTA in helping employees continue their work while avoiding traffic congestion.
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Atlanta law firm plants seeds of diversity as black lawyers comprise 4.4 percent of bar
Just 4.4 percent of the nation’s 1.1 million lawyers are black or African American. The Atlanta law firm Morris, Manning & Martin has just wrapped up its seventh annual program to introduce a diverse group of high school students to the legal profession as part of its effort to help plant the seeds of greater diversity.
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Georgia now tracking saltmarsh sparrow in hopes of helping imperiled species
Georgia is joining an effort to track the migratory patterns of a bird that biologists predict could be extinct within 15 years – the tiny saltwater sparrow, which is barely more than 4 inches long and weighs less than an ounce.
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Pullman Yard nominated for landmark status, which would curb potential demolition
Atlanta is taking steps to preserve the old buildings at Pullman Yard by nominating them for landmark status. The nomination follows an effort by the Atlanta City Council to protect land on which the yard is situated, including the headwaters of Hardee Creek.
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Neon Deion Sanders, Koch brothers, Snoop Dogg – odd bedfellows, indeed
Deion Sanders, a star of both the Atlanta Braves and Falcons in the early 1990s, has partnered with the politically conservative Koch brothers to fight poverty in Dallas. An “unlikely partnership” is how a reporter with the Associated Press characterized the relation.
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ATL Streetcar transfer to MARTA to take about a year: Public Works commissioner
The transfer of the ownership and management of the Atlanta Streetcar from the city to MARTA will take about a year to finalize and will be retroactive to July 1, Atlanta’s Public Works commissioner said Wednesday.
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Invest Atlanta to approve final financing for proton center, get new board member
Invest Atlanta is slated to approve Wednesday the final step in a financing deal that will enable construction to resume at the Georgia Proton Treatment Center, in Midtown, just as the Atlanta City Council is poised to appoint a new member to the development authority’s board.
