The City of Atlanta has agreed to allocate $60 million to Atlanta BeltLine Inc. for the acquisition of real estate along the 22-mile corridor.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed made the announcement at the ribbon-cutting of the one-mile extension of the Eastside Trail that connects the Reynoldstown and Cabbagetown communities.
The Greek leader Pericles said something about legacy that is worth recollecting in the final weekend of the campaign in Atlanta’s general election. Oakland Cemetery is putting in its 2 cents, as well.
Transit is becoming an easier sell in the Atlanta region.
That is the top finding from the 2017 Metro Atlanta Speaks – the fifth year that the Atlanta Regional Commission has commissioned a comprehensive survey of residents throughout the region. The results were to be released at the ARC’s State of the Region Breakfast on Friday morning.
After more than a year of work, the city of Atlanta published a plan called Resilient Atlanta: Actions to Build a More Equitable Future. The 150-page document is meant as a blueprint for where Atlanta wants to go, and how it wants to handle problems from inequity to natural disasters.
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on October 20, 2017
Since buying Underground Atlanta last April, WRS Inc. has been moving forward with development plans for the property.
WRS is partnering with Peak Campus, a student housing developer, to build a 700-bed building across from Georgia State University. The building also will have about 25,000 square feet of retail at street level. The student housing development should be open by the fall of 2020 for that school year.
n lieu of a traditional ground-breaking ceremony, Georgia Tech and the Kendeda Fund planted seeds Thursday to begin construction on what will be the most environmentally sustainable building in the Southeast.
The goal is for the Living Building at Georgia Tech will follow construction guidelines so it will do little to no harm to the environment by using the greenest building materials and by being a net zero building in terms of energy and water use.
The racial composition of the Atlanta committee that’s reviewing Confederate icons in the city was called into question Wednesday by Aaron Turpeau, a former cabinet member of Maynard Jackson and Andrew Young’s mayoral administrations. It wasn’t the only concern expressed.
A tax break that’s meant to boost the agriculture business in Georgia is still liable to abuse by folks who aren’t earning all that much money at farming, or stores that want to move merchandise that has nothing to do with producing food, fiber or timber.
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on October 13, 2017
The high-powered Atlanta Committee for Progress has developed a blueprint for the city as a way to help provide a smooth transition for the next mayor.
ACP, which was created in 2003 by then-Mayor Shirley Franklin, includes many of the top business and civic leaders in the Atlanta region. It has helped launch a host of initiatives, including the Atlanta Beltline, acquisition of the Martin Luther King Jr. papers, pension reform and the Westside Future Fund.
By Maria Saporta Two was the operative number for the Atlanta Women’s Foundation annual luncheon – Numbers 2 Big to Ignore – at the Georgia World Congress Center. The lunch itself raised more than $1 million, including on-the-spot pledges from dozens of women who raised their hands to make donations from $500 to $10,000. Kari […]
When U.S. Housing Secretary Ben Carson arrived Tuesday in Atlanta’s Bedford Pine neighborhood to tour a new apartment community for low-income seniors, there was little to remind of the long road traveled to complete the project. All eyes were looking forward, not back.
Many an improv troupe has pulled an audience member down to the stage at Dad’s Garage theater. But a week and a day before Atlanta city elections, it was nine mayoral candidates placed on the stage there to answer unconventional questions.
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on October 13, 2017
When Atlanta CEO Larry Gellerstedt recently met with 60 of Cousins Properties Inc.’s investors, he heard one message loud and clear.
“Don’t tell us about your airport,” they told him. “All we want to hear about is your university infrastructure.”
Gellerstedt recalled that exchange at the Oct. 5 quarterly meeting of the Georgia Research Alliance, a public-private partnership of top business leaders, presidents of the state’s research universities and key officials in state government. Gellerstedt also happens to be the current chairman of GRA.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said on Monday that he wants to expand a grant that’s meant to steer students toward the subjects that employers say will help them fill unfilled jobs.
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on October 6, 2017
When MailChimp first approached the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta to set up a “Community College” for its employees, the nonprofit kept sending the technology company to other possible partners.
“We kept pushing back,” said Alicia Philipp, president and CEO of the Community Foundation. “We don’t usually work with companies. We work with high net worth individuals and the community. This was not in our wheelhouse.”
But Lain Shakespeare, MailChimp’s director of corporate citizenship, would not take no as an answer. “My mission is to grow corporate citizens,” Shakespeare said. “The Community Foundation was the only choice for us.”
Atlantans showed up in droves Sunday afternoon to bid real estate executive Scott Selig farewell.
Nearly 2,000 people came to the Temple on Peachtree Street – with standing room only in the Sanctuary and Covenant Chapel as others sat in the Schwartz-Goldstein Hall.
The Atlanta City Council is poised to wait until after the city election on Nov. 7 to consider rate hikes for art programs at Chastain Arts Center and Gallery and a new fee structure to rent the city’s gallery, Gallery 72. The proposals have been pending since they were introduced in April.
If you’re skeptical of polls, and maybe of Atlanta candidate emails that talk confidently about polling results, two Atlanta pollsters and one big review of 2016 say there is reason to trust what’s difficult work. When it’s done well, that is, and presented correctly.
As Atlanta candidates scramble to file their financial disclosures, Georgia’s so-called “independent committees” are raising money and starting to spend it too.
As the fall foliage season begins in earnest in North Georgia and thousands of visitors travel there from metro Atlanta, state officials are urging motorists to be extra careful to avoid collisions with deer.
