Category: ATL Business Chronicle

Although it’s only a year old, 3DE – a sister spinoff of Junior Achievement of Georgia – is making inroads in its goal to transform high school education nationally.

A $450 million plan to redevelop Underground Atlanta is expected to take off in 2020 with the construction of a new hotel, apartments and an entertainment venue.

A new report by Giving USA shows that 2018 was a record year for giving, with Americans giving a total of $427.7 billion.

A developer’s desire to build nearly 1,000 housing units along the Chattahoochee River in the city of Atlanta has become water-logged.

Still warm from the glow of hosting a successful Super Bowl LIII, Atlanta regional leaders have drafted a wish list of mega sporting events they would like to host over the next dozen years.

The Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School has announced that its founding president, Bill Garrett, will be stepping down from his role on July 1, 2020.

Atlanta is solidifying its role as a center for the packaging industry in the United States.

The Harvard Business School Club of Atlanta has selected the 2019 winners of its Social Enterprise Initiative Scholarships

SunTrust CEO Bill Rogers may be moving to Charlotte, N.C., but Atlanta will stay in his heart and mind.

Atlanta currently has more women in its consular corps than ever in its history, according to Georges Hoffman, the Honorary Consul of Luxembourg in Atlanta since 1995.

The Stand Together Foundation, a national poverty-fighting initiative partly funded by the Koch family, has made a grand entrance in Atlanta by investing in 10 local nonprofits.

The Atlanta Regional Commission’s 2019 LINK trip to Pittsburgh resonated on several levels for the delegation of more than 110 metro leaders who visited the Pennsylvania city from May 15 to May 18.

A May 13 event to celebrate the new and improved Centennial Olympic Park turned into a reunion of the leaders who helped Atlanta win the 1996 Summer Olympic Games.

It’s hard to contain the energy of Jill Savitt, the new CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, who has only been in the role for two months.

Local leaders are making progress in their quest to host the 2020 Summit of the Nobel Peace Laureates and on a larger vision to brand Atlanta as a “City of Peace”.

Atlanta business leader Larry Gellerstedt III will be honored with the prestigious Four Pillar Tribute by the Council for Quality Growth on Oct. 10 at the Georgia World Congress Center.

Venessa Harrison first set her sights on moving to Atlanta from North Carolina 40 years ago. In fact, the reason she first joined AT&T in 1979 was because she believed she would be able to transfer to Atlanta to join several of her friends who had decided to move to Georgia.

Little emotion was on display at what likely was the last annual meeting of SunTrust Banks Inc.