It took less than 10 minutes, but a Friday afternoon vote seems to have cleared the way for a long-stalled apartment building to rise near the northeast corner of Centennial Olympic Park.
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Atlanta drops lawsuit against Integral, Egbert Perry and Renee Glover
The city of Atlanta is stepping back from a 2017 lawsuit against its former housing authority CEO, the Integral Group and its boss, a longtime and prominent city contractor who’s built mixed-income developments for the authority.
“The city has dismissed, without prejudice, its lawsuit against Integral Development and related corporate entities and individuals,” a city spokesperson confirmed in a text Thursday evening.
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Atlanta Housing Authority CEO pushes back on Mayor’s resignation request
When Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms requested some two dozen top staff resignation letters for review earlier this month, the leader of the city’s housing authority referred the mayor to a board that dates from the previous administration.
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Atlanta’s asking advice on their big mixed-income redo at Civic Center
Atlanta plans to rebuild 19 acres at the Civic Center as a mixed-use, mixed income-development. Some folks who came to a city meeting about it are saying they’re looking for walkability, connections to the rest of the city, and preserving the buildings that are on the site.
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Atlanta agency votes for Vine City mixed-income build
Atlanta’s development agency has voted to sell the city’s housing authority 7.8 acres of land in Vine City for a $60 million mixed-income residential project.
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DeKalb Avenue “suicide lanes” to disappear, as a car-centric city does something different
Folks who live on DeKalb Avenue say cars race by their windows — and they see a lot of crashes. A top city planner says that what they’re going to witness through those windows in the coming years is part of a departure from history for a car-centric city.
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It’s a new day, says Atlanta mayor, just after subpoena news
“I don’t anticipate that this will be the last subpoena we will receive,” said Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Wednesday, a day after news broke that a grand jury has demanded city records related to former Mayor Kasim Reed’s spending in office.
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One hundred days in, new Atlanta mayor promises stronger city after “uncomfortable” time
For the symbolically significant one-hundred-day mark of her administration, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is thanking employees, evaluating leadership and looking to rebuild public trust at what she called an “uncomfortable” time for the city.
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Sketches of Atlanta Central Library new windows, tenants, draw criticism
If there’s something everyone can agree on, it’s that Downtown’s Atlanta’s main library is in sad shape. The news that bathroom renovations are coming drew some cheers from folks at the library Wednesday night, though they had little positive to say of new windows and new tenants sketched out for the landmark building.
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Demolition marks start of Atlanta mayor’s anti-blight campaign
“We’ve torn down over 100 houses in the last 15 months probably,” said the Atlanta police major who oversees code enforcement.
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King Center discussion: overcoming “three evils”
When Bernice King took the stage Thursday night at the center named for her father, she said it’s been a busy week … And there’s a lot to do and to learn, said the panelists gathered at the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Their topic: winning together over racism, poverty and militarism.
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Former Atlanta official Mitzi Bickers indicted on pay-for-play bribery allegations
By Maggie Lee A new federal grand jury indictment charges that from 2010 to 2015, some $2 million dollars in bribes enriched former city official Mitzi Bickers and companies related to her — paid by now-convicted contractors who got some $17 million in city work. A federal investigation into City Hall pay-for-play allegations has been […]
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Atlanta City Hall recovering from ransomware lockdown, mum on what happened
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said it’ll be a marathon, not a sprint, to recover from a cyberattack that’s shut down some city online services and locked staff away from their files.
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Georgia Legislature sets up Atlanta tax votes, but not for BeltLine
The state Legislature closed its business this year without authorizing a BeltLine idea to raise some $100 million via a new tax on commercial and multifamily residential properties near the trail. But they did approve Atlanta votes on property taxes and extending a sewer sales tax.
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Georgia House, Senate agree on metro transit overhaul
It took until very last hour of Thursday for final passage, but the Georgia House and Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill that they mean to be the first step toward a more seamless and robust transit network in metro Atlanta.
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State lawmakers vote for closure of part of Downtown Atlanta’s Mitchell Street
The street that runs between Atlanta City Hall and the state Capitol has become a battle line between the near-neighbors Downtown.
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It’s official: MARTA board votes to hire new boss
A board vote that took less than a minute ended a process that took months: finding a new general manager and CEO of MARTA. Jeffrey Parker will take over leading the agency at a time of big expansion.
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Time to buckle down on BeltLine challenges, says its first planner
With huge population growth on the horizon, Atlanta’s at a moment where it needs to handle the challenges that are coming with the BeltLine, says its godfather, Ryan Gravel.
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Georgia House panel narrows immigration enforcement bill
A state House panel has approved a bill that supporters say is a fairly narrow proposal to help federal immigration agents eject bad guys from the country. But critics say the bill will have dire consequences.
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Bill to raise $100 million for BeltLine muddles through state Senate committee
“I can tell you, the money that has been spent on the Atlanta BeltLine needs help. It’s not going to get completed without this, I don’t see how it’s going to happen,” said state Rep. Chad Nimmer, R-Blackshear, asking a state Senate committee to approve his bill.
