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Fayetteville, Ga. civic leaders and Chick-fil-A Inc. CEO Dan Cathy on Thursday detailed plans for a massive mixed-use development with three distinct districts adjacent to Pinewood Studios.

The 234-acre new urbanism community, Pinewood Forrest, will have more than 1,200 residences and 270,000 square feet of office, restaurant and retail space.

A new leader has been named to run the Atlanta BeltLine Partnership, the private sector nonprofit that complements the efforts of the publicly-supported Atlanta BeltLine Inc.

Rob Brawner, who has been working with the Partnership since its inception in 2006, will be the new executive director. He succeeds Chuck Meadows, who has been at the helm since November, 2014.

Jack Fralin began painting signs when he was only 15 – becoming a jack of all trades while working for his father.

Today at the age 52, Fralin is finally acknowledging he is a wall sign painter. After trying several other careers, he always returned to practicing this specialized skill.

Grady Hospital is going greener.

The Grady Health Foundation has received an $850,000 gift from the Kendeda Fund to create a Green Revolving Fund, a financing tool to invest in sustainability projects, such as energy efficiency, water conservation and renewable energy.

The Grady Health System will match the Kendeda grant, which will produce cost savings through investments in future sustainability projects.

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and his entire cabinet met in a closed session for more than two hours Monday morning with members of the Black Lives Matter movement and other people who have been taking to city streets protesting killings by police.

By Maria Saporta The iconic painted Coca-Cola sign on the iconic Manuel’s Tavern is being restored in time for the bar’s grand reopening. A specialty painter based in Roanoke, Va., Jack Fralin, will begin working on the sign restoration on Monday – blasting off the paint down to the brick before hand-painting the sign back […]

Twice a month, the Transform Westside Summit has been meeting for a breakfast gathering at the City of Refuge to explore initiatives to revitalize the communities on the west side of Northside Drive.

Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin took pride in how the Democratic National Convention’s Platform Committee was able to find a progressive compromise between the party’s two top candidates – former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Franklin served as the co-chair of the Platform Committee along with another former mayor – Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy.

In a spirit of consensus, the Fulton County Commissioners and the mayors of the 13 Fulton County cities, not including the City of Atlanta, reviewed the proposed list of transportation projects that would be covered by a proposed .75 percent of a penny sales tax in a TSPLOST vote on Nov. 8.

Fulton County, minus the City Atlanta, has put together a draft list of transportation projects for the next five years with the potential revenue ranging from $484 million to $655 million.

The Fulton County Commissioners are holding a special called meeting on Thursday morning with the mayors of the 13 Fulton County cities not including Atlanta. At that point, they will review a draft of the project list, which they helped put together.