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The Atlanta BeltLine’s Eastside Trail attracts about one million users a year.

Now the Atlanta BeltLine Partnership is asking them to help light the way.

Chuck Meadows, executive director of the Partnership, announced a $1.1 million “crowd-funding campaign” to “Light the Line.”

The new owner of the Tuxedo Road house designed by renowned Atlanta architect Phillip Trammel Shutze is reconsidering plans to demolish the historic home.

Dallas Clement, chief financial officer of Cox Enterprises, recently bought the house and property for $2.2 million in November, according to published reports.

The three living children of Martin Luther King Jr. are close to reaching consensus on their legal disputes that have divided them over the past several years.

Dexter King and his wife, Leah Weber King, attended Saturday night’s Salute to Greatness Awards dinner, the first one he has been to in years.

The chairman of the Atlanta City Council Finance Committee Monday will ask the administration to fully disclose details surrounding its $9 million payment to the Atlanta Public Schools made at the end of 2015 over the Atlanta BeltLine.

People around town were shaking their heads Wednesday upon the news that Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed had forced Craig Richard, the CEO of Invest Atlanta, to resign.

Richard, who has been with the city for less than 14 months, had put together a strong track record during his tenure.

The city of Atlanta paid Atlanta Public Schools $9 million last week in an important step toward resolving a long-running legal dispute over tax allocation district revenues from Atlanta BeltLine Inc.

It appears as though an agreement has been reached between the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta Board of Education on payments the city owes with the tax allocation district with the Atlanta BeltLine.

Atlanta’s most notorious locomotive took to the skies on Monday afternoon.

That was when Atlanta History Center began the delicate process of removing the 1856 Texas locomotive from the Cyclorama building as part of an agreement with the City of Atlanta to restore and relocate “The Battle of Atlanta” cyclorama painting and other Civil War artifacts.

In a surprise move, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank announced Monday that Stephen Cannon, currently president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA, has been named the next CEO of AMB Group LLC beginning on Feb 1.

Cannon will assume all day-to-day responsibilities of AMB Group, which represents all of Blank’s for-profit entities. Blank will continue in his role as chairman and owner – working with Cannon on overall strategy for the Blank family of businesses.

Up until now, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has been absent from the debate among Fulton County’s mayors on whether they should seek a full-penny, five-year transportation sales tax.

If the county were to go for a full penny, it basically would preclude MARTA from being able to seek an additional half-penny sales tax in Fulton and DeKalb counties so it can expand its transit system.

For years, the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta Public Schools have been at an impasse over how much money the city owes the school system in payments over the Atlanta BeltLine.

But leaders on both sides are encouraged by recent negotiations, and they believe they could finalize an agreement in the near future.