The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) and the Nature Conservancy publicly kicked off its South River Forest Community Engagement process at a meeting Saturday morning at DeKalb County’s impressive Sugar Creek Golf & Tennis Center off Bouldercrest Road.
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2026 World Cup an opportunity for Atlanta to shine
There are defining moments in the life of every city. Hosting the Summer Olympic Games was one of them for Atlanta. Hosting the World Cup in 2026 will be another.
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Newell’s Ravi Saligram: Atlanta can be a national role model
By Maria Saporta Sometimes it takes a newcomer’s perspective to see Atlanta’s potential. That’s the case with Ravi Saligram, the CEO of Newell Brands, a Fortune 500 company that brought back its headquarters to Atlanta in 2019 after moving to New Jersey for three years. “If we can’t make Atlanta work in terms of a […]
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Olympic athlete Edwin Moses on new Morehouse track: ‘Doesn’t it look beautiful?’
A newly restored track at Morehouse College will continue the legacy of legendary Edwin Moses and spotlight the track-and-field program at the historically black college.
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Southern Co.’s annual meeting a model for corporate America
The best corporate annual meeting of the year award goes to the Southern Co. – hands down.
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Atlanta leaders committed to fulfilling promise of rail on the BeltLine
Key Atlanta leaders remain fully committed to building rail on the Atlanta BeltLine.
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Metro Atlanta is riding the wrong bus into the future
We are in a moment in time when we can transform our region with a world-class transit network thanks in large part to the $1.3 trillion federal infrastructure investment.
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Austin LINK trip with Mayor Andre Dickens is a hopeful sign for region
AUSTIN – A spirit of optimism enveloped the 2022 LINK trip as 120 Atlanta Regional leaders traveled to the capital city of Texas from May 4 to May 7.
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Helene Gayle is looking ‘to bring Spelman to the world and the world to Spelman’
As the next president of Spelman College, Helene Gayle is boomeranging back to Atlanta – her on-again, off-again home for decades.
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Metro Atlanta leaders headed to Austin on 2022 LINK trip
Metro Atlanta leaders are heading to Austin for the annual LINK trip on May 4 – only six months after going to Chicago to learn how other cities are coping with the same issues as we are.
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Family visit weaves views of greenspace, civil rights and hospitality
Sometimes having a fresh set of eyes on where you live helps you better appreciate what works and what’s lacking. For me, those fresh set of eyes belonged to my sister, Elena Saporta; and my niece, Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri, who came to spend the better part of a week visiting Atlanta and Georgia.
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Atlanta Dogwood Festival’s Brian Hill: ‘A real chance we won’t make it’
The Atlanta Dogwood Festival has welcomed Spring in the city for 86 years. But its future is in jeopardy after two years of the disruptive COVID pandemic and rising costs.
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Atlanta developer David Allman making a difference in Nicaragua
When Atlanta real estate developer David Allman turned 50, he pulled back from the day-to-day of his business to explore ways he could improve the lives of the world’s most impoverished.
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Long-time community builder Robert Lupton shares views on philanthropy and business
Robert Lupton has spent 50 years of his life working as a community developer in Atlanta mostly with people who have the greatest needs.
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Anna Roach on metro Atlanta: ‘There’s something for everybody here’
For Anna Roach, being executive director of the Atlanta Regional Commission is the job she dreamed of getting.
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For his 90th birthday, let us honor Andrew Young by making Atlanta a city of peace
More than 1800 people attended Andrew Young’s 90th birthday gala at the Georgia World Congress Center Saturday night,
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MARTA launches new on-demand pilot program while facing key decisions
As MARTA enters a pivotal moment for regional transit in Atlanta, it has launched a pilot program that could radically change how the agency serves riders.
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Spring is in the air as Atlanta reopens with relaxed COVID restrictions
Our world in Atlanta is reopening – almost as quickly as it closed nearly two years ago – a fact that hit home this past week.
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Give Mayor Andre Dickens freedom to name his team to Atlanta Housing’s board
It’s time to get out of the lawsuit business. So proclaimed several board members of the Atlanta Housing authority at a specially-called (virtual) meeting on Feb. 16 when the board approved a settlement agreement with the Integral Group and its development partners over 88 acres of land next to four mixed-income projects.
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Planner Tim Keane: ‘Atlanta needs to change a lot’
After six-and-a-half years in Atlanta, Tim Keane is moving on to greener pastures – Boise, Idaho. Keane’s final day as the City of Atlanta’s planning commissioner will be Friday, Feb. 18, and his presence in Atlanta will certainly be missed.
