By David Luse
Sir James Paul McCartney, the most successful songwriter according to the Guinness World Records, came to Piedmont Park for a fundraiser dedicated to expanding the park by 40 percent.
He is known mainly for his songs written with The Beatles rather than those composed through his side projects and solo work. He wrote songs such as “Yesterday,” the most covered song in history, deemed by some to be the greatest song of the 20th century. This song is listed as composed by
By Maria Saporta
Friday, August 21, 2009
The economy is experiencing a “global reset,” according to Peter Evans, director of Global Strategy and Planning for Atlanta-based GE Energy.
During this global reset, American businesses have a choice to lead a “fast green growth” world or follow a “slow brown” strategy.
Evans shared that message at a New Sustainable
By Maria Saporta
Georgia Power President and CEO Mike Garrett painted a broad brush of business issues at a luncheon meeting of the Gwinnett Chamber earlier today.
From the economy to energy to water to economic development, Garrett shared his thoughts.
Because of his multiple roles, he is in a unique position to talk about all of them. He is chairman of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. He is chairman of the
By Maria Saporta
The city of Atlanta continues to do what it can to save the Crum & Forster building at 771 Spring St. in Midtown.
On Monday, in a 14-0 vote, the Atlanta City Council voted to give the building a Landmark designation, which would give it greater protection from being demolished.
Preservationists and urban advocates have made the saving of the Crum & Forster building a cause celebre as soon
By Maria Saporta
Southface has many reasons to celebrate today’s opening of its Eco Office.
The Eco Office is a demonstration model of what Southfaces has been preaching for decades — that we can build more energy-efficient buildings that use much less water than conventional buildings.
So it was with green fanfare that Southface had its “vine-cutting” ceremony. Founder Dennis Creech, who is Southface’s executive director, said
By Maria Saporta
There’s a Beatlemania Breeze in the air.
Walking to Piedmont Park this morning among a hub-bub of activity, one of my neighbors had set up speakers on the front porch playing old Beatle songs.
At 10 a.m., a line of about 400 people already were camped out, some who had come as early as 2:30 a.m. to be one of the first to get into the general admission show.
The past week in Midtown has felt
By Maria Saporta
Friday, August 14, 2009
The possible move of Atlanta’s largest daily newspaper out of downtown concerns civic leaders and one of the city’s most accomplished journalists.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has been laying the groundwork to move from its current downtown home to a location that likely
By Maria Saporta
Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 11:38am
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is laying the groundwork to move the newspaper from its current downtown home to a location that likely will be outside the city limits.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, August 14, 2009
The Buckhead Community Improve-ment District has tapped Atlanta civic leader Jim Durrett as its new executive director.
Durrett currently is executive director of the Livable Communities Coalition, a 4-year-old coalition of about 40 civic organizations dedicated to promoting smart-growth practices in the Atlanta region.
By Maria Saporta
The Livable Communities Coalition has named Ray Christman as its new executive director, beginning Aug. 31.
He will suceed Jim Durrett, who submitted his resignation a few days ago so he could become executive director of the Buckhead Community Improvement District at the end of the month.
Durrett is succeeding Scotty Greene, who is retiring after 10 years running the Buckhead CID.
It is one of the quickest management
By Maria Saporta
He may be the only guy in Georgia who feels this way.
“I can’t wait till January,” said Vance Smith, the new commissioner for the Georgia Department of Transportation. “I’m looking forward to interacting with the General Assembly.”
Smith was speaking to the board of the Georgia Department of Economic Development at the Newell Rubbermaid headquarters. Before becoming GDOT commissioner nearly two months ago,
By Maria Saporta
One of Atlanta’s top public relations professional — Claudia Patton — is on her way up.
The Edelman firm has promoted Patton as president of Edelman’s Southeast region. She will oversee the Edelman office in Atlanta and Orlando as well as the eight-state Southeast region.
Before her promotion, Patton has been president and general manager of Edelman Atlanta. She has been in the public relations industry since 1982 when
By Maria Saporta
Talk about timing.
On Sept. 25, 2008, Emory University announced a $1.6 billion fundraising campaign — the largest such campaign of any university in Georgia.
“We announced the public campaign right when the economy went soft,” said Sonny Deriso,
By Maria Saporta
Atlanta Business Chronicle
Friday, August 7, 2009
At 9 a.m. on July 23, the phone rang in Mike Garrett’s office.
It was Gov. Sonny Perdue. Would Garrett, president and CEO of Georgia Power Co., be willing to serve as the “quarterback” of the state’s efforts to get congressional authorization to use Lake Lanier for drinking water and help resolve the dispute between Georgia, Alabama and Florida over water allocation?
By Maria Saporta
Alternative, renewal energy sources appear to be gaining steam in Georgia.
At Friday morning’s Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable, a panel focused on the environmental issues facing the Georgia coast.
In his presentation, Tybee Island City Councilman Paul Wolff talked about a wind energy study that was done by Georgia Tech and Georgia Power.
“We could generate half of our energy
A set of Atlanta’s best known twins is being honored by the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers, which has almost 1,100 members throught the state.
It is renaming its GAWL Foundation Endowment as the Ruth and Ruby Crawford Endowment.
The colorful twin sisters, who were always dressed in matchng attire, both served as president of GAWL and were “widely recognized as trailblazers for professional women in Georgia,”
By Maria Saporta
The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), founded by Atlantan Ted Turner and managed by former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Georgia) has developed unique ties with the Obama administration.
Three of the top officials within NTI have moed into senior-level positions in the Obama administration. They include:
Laura Holgate, NTI’s vice president for Russia and New Independent States for the past eight years, is serving as senior
By Maria Saporta
The Goizueta Foundation is donating $12 million, three-year grant to the Woodruff Arts Center to expand arts education programming for children and students up to the 12th grade.
The gift is the single largest grant that the center has rceived for its campus-wide education initiatives.
The grant also will help the arts center develop a cohesive and collaborative education platform that works with each
By Maria Saporta
Friday, July 31, 2009
Central Atlanta Progress is working with city officials to secure $3.1 million to help revitalize the Auburn Avenue corridor.
Those funds are part of $42 million of unspent Atlanta Empowerment funds allocated to the city about 15 years ago to help distressed communities.
By Maria Saporta
Inclusion was the prevailing message at a mayoral forum Thursday evening sponsored by the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
The forum, held at the Georgia Terrace, included the five top candidates running to become Atlanta’s next mayor.
All five candidates said their administrations would work with the Hispanic community to participate in City Hall’s policies and contracts.
