Articles by Maria Saporta
Given the new spirit of cooperation between the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta Public Schools, Mayor Kasim Reed said he is willing to transfer 10 property deeds to the school system.
Reed, speaking at the State of the City business breakfast Thursday morning at the Georgia World Congress Center, said he would ask the Atlanta City Council to transfer those deeds “right away.”
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed called the possibility of the State of Georgia getting ownership of the Bobby Jones Golf Course in Buckhead as the “biggest false crisis that I’ve seen.”
In an editorial board meeting with the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Tuesday morning, Reed said he wanted to remove the mystery around the possible land swap between a state-owned parking facility at Underground Atlanta and the city-owned Bobby Jones course. The swap has been tied to the closing of the sale of Underground to WRS Realty.
Another one is about to bite the dust.
Despite the last minute hopes that owner Dallas Clement would explore options to save the Tuxedo Road house designed by renowned Atlanta architect Phillip Trammel Shutze, historic building is set to be demolished on Wednesday, Feb. 3.
Achieve Atlanta, the ambitious program to dramatically increase the number of Atlanta Public Schools students who graduate from college, announced a needs-based scholarship program on Monday.
The scholarship will provide up to $5,000 a year – renewable for up to four years – as an incentive to help APS students receive a college degree.
Friday morning was a Kumbaya moment for the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta Public Schools.
Leaders from both entities heralded the end of a hard-fought battle over how much the City of Atlanta owed APS over tax revenues from the Atlanta BeltLine.
After losing her 2014 bid for the U.S. Senate, Michelle Nunn did not return to her role as CEO with the Points of Light Foundation. Instead, she was named president and CEO of CARE, an Atlanta-based international relief organization.
After six months as the president and CEO of CARE, Michelle Nunn is seeking a little help from her friends.
It appears that a long-awaited agreement between the Atlanta Board of Education and the City of Atlanta on their multi-year dispute over Atlanta BeltLine payments will be announced Friday morning.
In conversations with several people familiar with the negotiations, the agreement will include a new payment schedule that will extend through 2030 – totaling $73.5 million over the next 15 years.
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.
Martin Luther King Jr. had a three-pronged mission: eliminate racism, violence and poverty. Andrew Young, one of his lieutenants, said King did not live long enough to fully develop his anti-poverty campaign.
But charismatic leader, John Hope Bryant, has taken up that part of King’s mantle.
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.
Atlanta-based Newell Rubbermaid Inc. (NYSE: NWL) has struck a deal to buy rival Boca Raton, Fla.-based Jarden Corp.(NYSE: JAH), for $15.4 billion in cash and stock, the companies reported early Monday.
The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2016 and will create a $16 billion, Atlanta-based consumer goods company.
The board of the Atlanta-based CDC Foundation has named a new president and CEO – Judith A. Monroe – someone who is no stranger to global health.
Monroe currently works for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she leads the federal agency’s Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support.
