One of the most colorful and significant murals in Atlanta is no more.
An astute reader of SaportaReport, Joseph Hopkins, sent us an email wanting to make us aware that the Freedom Quilt Mural and the building that it had been painted on had both been demolished.
A tussle over banners for the Atlanta Jazz Festival may be emerging between the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs and Atlanta City Councilmember Joyce Sheperd.
Compared to other issues percolating in Atlanta City Hall, the banner flap may be more symbolic than significant.
As Tyler Perry prepares to purchase most of Fort McPherson, the Atlanta Regional Commission on Wednesday provided a $60,000 grant to update a 2004 master plan for the surrounding area.
The Atlanta Streetcar could make the city liable for tens of millions of dollars for repairs stemming from stray electricity used to power the system, city officials said Tuesday.
A major contract to manage more than $1 billion in planned construction at Atlanta’s airport is on schedule, though an airport official won’t discuss even the schedule.
Georgia has no shortage of influential writers. Flannery O’Connor, Margaret Mitchell, and Natasha Tretheway. Alfred Uhry, Ralph McGill, and Alice Walker. Conrad Aiken, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary Hood, and Raymond Andrews. These are just some of the inductees into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, founded in 2000 by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the University of Georgia. They all have one thing in common: they are among the best anywhere at their storytelling craft.
Wimpy, wimpy, wimpy.
That is the most generous way to describe the transportation proposals coming out of the state legislature – and the response from the Atlanta business community.
From all outward appearances, it feels as though the Metro Atlanta Chamber has become complicit in Georgia’s favorite sport – to aim low when it comes to investing our state’s future.
We justify mediocrity.
State lawmakers who are still counting votes on the proposed transportation funding legislation may also be watching for opposition such as that which is mounting on the Fayette County Board of Commissioners.
In the wake of a destructive fire, one Atlanta newspaper found itself scooped by an upstart competitor.
By Guest Columnist NATHAN KOSKOVICH, a registered architect in Georgia who is chairman of the Architecture and Design Center
The redevelopment of Underground Atlanta appears to be underway. WRS, the South Carolina-based firm, is in the process of purchasing the property from the City of Atlanta, and it has begun planning for its redevelopment.
Because Underground Atlanta is so important to our city’s future, the Architecture and Design Center believes that a broad range of voices must be included in its redevelopment.
We’ve been fooled again. Before the legislative session, we thought this would be the year Georgia would finally invest in transit. Play Audio We had hope. Maybe the state would shift the fourth penny sales tax on gas to transit. That would be about $180 million a year. Now that’s some real money. Then the […]
A note from the photographer: “These are the abandoned greenhouses at the Emory Briarcliff Road campus, also known as the Candler Mansion property and the former site of the Georgia Mental Health Institute. This property was originally the home of Asa Candler, Jr, The greenhouses were in use as recently as the early 2000s, but […]
Former House Speaker Mark Burkhalter took the oath of office Thursday to represent the 6th congressional district on the board that oversees the Georgia Department of Transportation.
Funding for transit was striped from the proposed statewide transportation legislation and the House Transportation Committee on Wednesday also rejected an amendment that some members viewed as sending an anti-transit message.
Key areas of metro Atlanta are cycling forward – providing better facilities for people who want to ride bicycles for transportation and recreation.
But progress tends to occur in fits and starts – rarely reaching the ever-growing demand that exists for new bicycle paths and facilities.
The City of Atlanta has tended to be a pioneer when it comes to bicycle facilities – issuing requests for proposals for a city bike share program in May 2013 – nearly two years ago.
