Making Atlanta proud – Purpose Built Communities

October 14, 2019, 5:28 pm/0 Comments

Atlanta-based Purpose Built Communities is gaining traction with a $6 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a total of seven new community members in its network.

Those two significant developments were announced at Purpose Built Communities 10th annual conference, meeting in Atlanta Monday through Wednesday at the Loew’s Atlanta Hotel in Midtown.

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Leadership Atlanta 2020 – the 50th anniversary class

August 26, 2019, 6:34 pm/0 Comments

I have joined a cult – in the best sense of the word.

This past weekend, I attended the opening retreat of Leadership Atlanta’s 2020 class, and I will add the mandatory – best class ever.

Our weekend experience has shifted my whole attitude about my decision to apply and participate in this nine-month-long adventure – from trepidation to excitement.

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Architect Alex Garvin reflects on Atlanta and the BeltLine

August 19, 2019, 4:55 pm/1 Comment

It’s hard to pigeon-hole Alex Garvin. Yes, he’s an architect. But he’s also a professor, an author, a public servant, an urbanist, a visionary and someone who has had a major impact on Atlanta.

Garvin was in Atlanta last week to give a talk Aug. 15 at a luncheon organized by Central Atlanta Progress and the Urban Land Institute –Atlanta

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Remembering A.C. Toh during the 50th anniversary of A.C.T. Enterprises

June 24, 2019, 5:39 pm/0 Comments

Back in the 1980s, I had the pleasure of getting to know one of the most flamboyant developers who had entered the Atlanta market – A.C. Toh.

Toh made headlines in the 1980s by proposing to build a high-density international village on a 19-block area on the south part of downtown. Then Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young had taken Toh on a tour of the area, and together they envisioned what the place could be – a bustling new downtown with high-rise residential and office towers.

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Andrew Young on HOPE Global Forum: 'This is free enterprise at its best'

June 3, 2019, 6:42 pm/5 Comments

The 2019 HOPE Global Forum, once again, showed capitalism at its best.

The forum, held at Atlanta Hyatt Regency from May 29 to 31, brought together what has become one of the most diverse gatherings of business leaders and the general public. The 4,000-plus attendees literally came from all walks of life from many different corners of the world.

And the messages were powerful.

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