JPMorgan Chase has awarded a $4 million grant to a new tax-exempt partnership in Atlanta that is to help create more than 1,000 jobs and provide more than 700 affordable homes in metro Atlanta, the financial institution announced Tuesday.
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Metro Atlanta Chamber names Deisha Barnett as marketing svp – bringing diversity to senior team
The Metro Atlanta Chamber has named Deisha Barnett as its new senior vice president of marketing and communications – beginning on Nov. 29.
Most recently, Barnett has spent the last nine years working with Walmart Inc., where she rose through the ranks to become the senior director of corporate communications.
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ATL Mayor Reed on death of Gwen Ifill; honored in 2015 by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed released a statement on the death Monday of journalist Gwen Ifill, who interviewed Reed for her book, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama and hosted him on a 2012 edition of “NewsHour.”
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Feds approve Georgia’s wildlife conservation plan, which lists threats from global warming
Georgia’s updated 10-year wildlife plan, which says global warming threatens plants and animals, has been approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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GSU wins grant for bilingual K-12 project as Trump gives more voice to anti-illegal immigrant wing
Georgia State University has received a $2.7 million federal grant to help teachers improve their work with bilingual students. The timing is of note.
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Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem share post-election wisdom at AWF lunch
Twenty years ago, actress and activist Jane Fonda and feminist Gloria Steinem kicked off the first annual Numbers Too Big to Ignore – a major fundraiser for the Atlanta Women’s Foundation.
On Thursday, they returned for the 20th anniversary – held only two days after the Presidential election.
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Wall Street favors Atlanta’s MARTA vote; approved in every ATL precinct
The $2.5 billion to $3.5 billion that Atlanta voters approved Tuesday for MARTA are part of a $175 billion funding package voters nationwide approved in new, dedicated taxes to pay for mass transit, according to report Thursday by Moody’s Investors Service.
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Atlanta City Design Project to remain at Ponce City Market for at least four months
The Atlanta City Design Project will continue to convene public meetings at the Ponce City Market in space donated by its developer until the project can be moved to a yet-to-be-disclosed location in the Cascade area.
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Grant Park Conservancy slated to continue to maintain Atlanta’s oldest park
Atlanta is poised to extend its long-standing relation with the Grant Park Conservancy to continue grooming the city’s oldest park, which was created on 100 acres donated in 1883 by Atlanta pioneer Lemuel Pratt Grant.
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Threatened chestnut trees join hemlocks as beneficiaries of mountain festival
The 12th annual Hemlock Festival that begins today in Murrayville has added the American chestnut tree as a species it’s trying to protect through proceeds of the outdoor gathering.
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Fulton County plans to nearly triple capacity of its sewage plant in Woodstock
As lawyers argue in a Washington courtroom over the distribution of water between Florida and Georgia, Fulton County is preparing to nearly triple the amount of treated sewage it dumps into a river that flows into Alabama and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Pogo on ATL affordable housing: ‘We have met the enemy and he is us’
Derrick Barker stumped the experts at Atlanta City Hall when he asked Wednesday what Atlanta can do to help him, as a residential developer, build homes that aren’t so expensive that most city residents can’t afford to live in them.
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Woodruff Arts Center raises $110 million; Alliance Theatre to rename its main stage after Coca-Cola
Raising more than $10 million over its goal, the Woodruff Arts Center’s Transformation Campaign ended up raising $110 million more than two years ahead of schedule.
The record-breaking campaign ended up receiving a multimillion dollar undisclosed gift from the Coca-Cola Co. to support the renovation of the Alliance Theatre. As a result, the main stage will be named the Coca-Cola Stage at the Alliance Theatre when the renovated venue opens in the fall of 2018.
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Atlanta Hawks reach agreement with the city on a $192.5 million renovation of Philips Arena
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and majority Atlanta Hawks owner Tony Ressler were all smiles Tuesday when they announced that they had reached a $192.5 million deal to revamp Philips Arena.
The 30-year agreement would keep the “Hawks in downtown Atlanta for decades to come,” Reed said at the press conference in his Ceremonial Office at City Hall.
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George Dusenbury named head of Trust for Public Land – Georgia
Veteran parks and conservation advocate George Dusenbury IV has been named the Georgia State Director for the Trust for Public Land.
He succeeds Curt Soper, who moved to the Pacific Northwest this summer to accept a position as executive director of the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust.
In his new role, Dusenbury plans to focus on improving access to parks in Atlanta, expanding conservation efforts around the Chattahoochee River and working in partnership with individuals and organizations throughout the state.
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Talk of Atlanta’s affordable housing polices emerges in an unlikely setting at Tech
The latest sign that the high cost of housing in Atlanta is again a front-burner issue in Atlanta appeared in the unlikely setting of a panel discussion at Georgia Tech on the direction of land use in Atlanta.
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Wildfire, drought in North Ga. force closures of trails, restrictions of campfires
Wildfires have forced the closure of three trails and a trailhead parking lot on federal land in north Georgia, according to the U.S. Forest Service. On Friday, the state joined the federal government in restricting fires and campfires at wildness areas in north and central Georgia.
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Atlanta plans to refurbish green roof atop City Hall
Atlanta is in the early stages of renovating the green roof atop Atlanta City Hall. Plans call for more seating, the removal of invasive weeds and the installation of plants with a vibrant mix of colors and bloom times.
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Transportation continues to serve as top concern for metro Atlanta residents
For the third year in a row, transportation continues to be the top concern in the Atlanta region – mentioned by 25 percent of the population.
The results of the fourth annual Metro Atlanta Speaks public opinion survey were to be announced at the Atlanta Regional Commission’s State of the Region breakfast at the Georgia World Congress Center.
More importantly, the respondents expressed strong support for public transit with 73.5 percent said transit was very important and another 18.7 percent said it was somewhat important.
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Emory says minorities, poor hurt by proposed changes in liver transplant rules
Emory University has come out against a proposed change in the national policy governing the distribution of livers for transplant. Emory doctors say could the proposals have a negative impact on minorities and poor folks in Georgia and the southeast in order to benefit folks in the northeast.
