As Downtown Atlanta continues its gradual expansion westward, beyond the new Falcons stadium, an iconic skyscraper near the CNN Center is being renamed and is to undergo its first renovation in 18 years.
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Annual list of Georgia’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ waters cites categorical threats, five victories
This year’s edition of the Dirty Dozen, a report of threatened waters, marks a shift from specific locations to broader categories including groundwater, well water and public health.
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ATL poised to fund grants to businesses along MLK corridor, at Holmes station
Atlanta is poised to begin providing grants to businesses along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive corridor, presuming the Atlanta City Council on Monday votes to provide $600,000 that will increase the grant fund to $900,000.
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Gov. Deal urges prayers for rain as he restricts water use in drought-ridden NW Georgia
Gov. Nathan Deal on Thursday urged Georgians to pray for rain as he restricted outdoor use of water across most of northwest Georgia, while active forest fires blaze across 27,027 acres in Georgia’s mountains.
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GSU economist expects downturn in Georgia as Trump tariffs slow export sector
In his first forecast after Donald Trump’s election, Georgia State University economist Rajeev Dhawan predicted Wednesday that Georgia’s export economy will slow as the president enacts tariffs.
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$4 million grant from JPMorgan Chase to provide jobs, affordable homes in metro ATL
JPMorgan Chase has awarded a $4 million grant to a new tax-exempt partnership in Atlanta that is to help create more than 1,000 jobs and provide more than 700 affordable homes in metro Atlanta, the financial institution announced Tuesday.
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ATL Mayor Reed on death of Gwen Ifill; honored in 2015 by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed released a statement on the death Monday of journalist Gwen Ifill, who interviewed Reed for her book, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama and hosted him on a 2012 edition of “NewsHour.”
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Atlanta may designate Pullman Yard an historic site to regulate any redevelopment
Atlanta is taking steps to protect the historic integrity of a property best known as Pullman Yard. It’s a collection of 11 commercial buildings located on the largest single tract of land in the rapidly redeveloping Kirkwood neighborhood, east of Little Five Points.
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Feds approve Georgia’s wildlife conservation plan, which lists threats from global warming
Georgia’s updated 10-year wildlife plan, which says global warming threatens plants and animals, has been approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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GSU wins grant for bilingual K-12 project as Trump gives more voice to anti-illegal immigrant wing
Georgia State University has received a $2.7 million federal grant to help teachers improve their work with bilingual students. The timing is of note.
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Wall Street favors Atlanta’s MARTA vote; approved in every ATL precinct
The $2.5 billion to $3.5 billion that Atlanta voters approved Tuesday for MARTA are part of a $175 billion funding package voters nationwide approved in new, dedicated taxes to pay for mass transit, according to report Thursday by Moody’s Investors Service.
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Atlanta City Design Project to remain at Ponce City Market for at least four months
The Atlanta City Design Project will continue to convene public meetings at the Ponce City Market in space donated by its developer until the project can be moved to a yet-to-be-disclosed location in the Cascade area.
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White House spotlight on Atlanta appears amid talks on affordability, density
Atlanta’s rising housing costs are now clearly on the national stage, given their prominence in a recent White House report. The report’s toolkit of policies already is being cited in talks in Atlanta about how to promote the supply of affordable housing.
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Grant Park Conservancy slated to continue to maintain Atlanta’s oldest park
Atlanta is poised to extend its long-standing relation with the Grant Park Conservancy to continue grooming the city’s oldest park, which was created on 100 acres donated in 1883 by Atlanta pioneer Lemuel Pratt Grant.
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Threatened chestnut trees join hemlocks as beneficiaries of mountain festival
The 12th annual Hemlock Festival that begins today in Murrayville has added the American chestnut tree as a species it’s trying to protect through proceeds of the outdoor gathering.
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Fulton County plans to nearly triple capacity of its sewage plant in Woodstock
As lawyers argue in a Washington courtroom over the distribution of water between Florida and Georgia, Fulton County is preparing to nearly triple the amount of treated sewage it dumps into a river that flows into Alabama and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Pogo on ATL affordable housing: ‘We have met the enemy and he is us’
Derrick Barker stumped the experts at Atlanta City Hall when he asked Wednesday what Atlanta can do to help him, as a residential developer, build homes that aren’t so expensive that most city residents can’t afford to live in them.
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Birds of a feather flock together in briefs filed in Florida/Georgia river basin lawsuit
APALACHICOLA, FL. – There are no surprises in the groupings of organizations that submitted “friend of the court” briefs in the federal lawsuit filed by Florida against Georgia to get more water out of the Chattahoochee River basin. The hearing began Monday.
Business interests stuck together. Environmental groups stuck together.
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Snapshot of the case history
By David Pendered Florida filed a lawsuit against Georgia in the U.S. Supreme Court after years of negotiations failed to resolve disputes over Georgia’s consumption of water from the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basin. The hearing began Monday in a federal courthouse in Washington. Lawyers for both sides expect to take up to six weeks to present […]
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Talk of Atlanta’s affordable housing polices emerges in an unlikely setting at Tech
The latest sign that the high cost of housing in Atlanta is again a front-burner issue in Atlanta appeared in the unlikely setting of a panel discussion at Georgia Tech on the direction of land use in Atlanta.
