Top Georgia business leaders now are looking toward Gov. Nathan Deal to continue his stance against discrimination – as it relates to HB 757 – also known as the religious freedom bill.
Richard Dugas, president and CEO of the Pulte Group who chairs the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s Public Policy Advisory Board, spoke out strongly against the the bill, which has now passed both the Georgia House and Senate and will rest on the governor’s desk.
In the early 1960s, the Atlanta Student Movement bubbled up from the historically black colleges on the west side of downtown.
They wanted to be able to eat at restaurants, shop at department stores and not live as second-class citizens.
The architectural team of Lord Aeck Sargent and the Miller Hull Partnership has been selected by Georgia Tech to design the Living Building Challenge 3.0 project – expected to be the most sustainable building in the Southeast.
Fulton County Commission Chairman John Eaves met with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed last week to work on possible “local legislation” compromise for transportation funding that would address MARTA’s expansion plans.
International Women’s Day came to Atlanta Tuesday.
The World Affairs Council of Atlanta thought it was about time for our city to mark the day, according to Charles Shapiro, its president and CEO.
So the Council brought together a panel of Elizabeth Kiss, president of Agnes Scott College; Michelle Nunn, president and CEO of CARE; and Joyce Adolwa, CARE’s director of education programming.
The Atlanta City Council honored one of Atlanta’s longest serving news professionals – John B. Smith Sr., publisher and CEO of The Atlanta Inquirer.
The United Way of Greater Atlanta is exploring options for its downtown campus that could include the sale of the 4-acre property, as developers and their capital partners continue gravitating back to the city’s urban core.
What does Atlanta want to look like when it grows up? That’s a question city planners are faced with.
They’ve launched the “Atlanta City Design Project,” which aims to be pro-active about how we handle future growth and development. For decades, we’ve been reacting to proposals from developers and market forces rather than setting our own course.
Upon being presented the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Visionary Award,” veteran architect Tom Ventulett shared one of his pet peeves – the ugliness of our highways.
Ventulett, a co-founder of the Atlanta-based TVSdesign architectural firm, first pushed back against him receiving the award.
By Maria Saporta
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on February 26, 2016
Atlanta’s top booster at AT&T, Ralph de la Vega, is moving to Dallas as part of his promotion to vice chairman of the international telecommunications company.
But Atlanta will continue to be a critical hub for AT&T, De la Vega said in a telephone interview before heading to Barcelona, Spain, for the annual Mobile World Congress, where he was a speaker on Feb. 22.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, speaking to a gathering of civic leaders Monday morning, gave a glimmer of hope that the MARTA referendum may not be dead after all.
At a conference about the “opportunity gap,” Reed said that if there were a transportation referendum without MARTA, “just count me out.”
Colleen Kiernan, director of the Sierra Club’s Georgia Chapter, has announced she will be stepping down on April 1.
A newsletter wrote that “we are bidding a fond but reluctant farewell” to Kiernan.
Social justice advocate Nancy Parrish received Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage on Feb. 18.
It’s one of the most prestigious awards given in Atlanta, named in honor of late Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. He gained national respect in the 1960s for supporting integration in the South.
Concerned business leaders are stepping up their efforts opposing the “religious freedom” legislation that passed the Georgia Senate on Friday.
The Metro Atlanta Chamber gave a letter to every Georgia senator – stating that it had signed the Georgia Prospers pledge, an initiative led by former Republic Senate Majority Leader Ronnie Chance.
The Metro Atlanta Chamber announced several key leadership changes – both on its executive staff and its volunteer roles. The changes were announced at the Chamber’s executive committee meeting Thursday morning.
Fulton County Commission Chairman John Eaves has been working for months to build consensus among all the mayors in his county on how to move forward with transportation funding.
At Tuesday’s meeting of Fulton’s mayors and county commissioners, the various political leaders moved a step closer to consensus – with the exception of Alpharetta Mayor David Belle Isle.
It’s so sad to see a historic home demolished – especially without a full vetting of all possible options to save it.
That was the case with the “Maddox House” designed by famous Atlanta architect Phillip Trammel Shutze at 3665 Tuxedo Road.
After more than a year of trying to lay claim to the historic Hank Aaron Statue and seeking to move it to its new ballpark in Cobb County, the Atlanta Braves now say the monument can stay in Atlanta.
In a statement released late Friday, the Braves called the fight over the statue “divisive” and not in the spirit of the Homerun King himself.
The city is “very close to finalizing an agreement” with Delta Air Lines on a new 20-year lease at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed told people attending the Atlanta Press Club’s Newsmaker Luncheon on Thursday.
The plot thickens.
After Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that the iconic Hank Aaron Statue would be staying in Atlanta based on a agreement she had reached with the Atlanta Braves, a spokeswoman for the baseball teams said that wasn’t true.
