Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s administration on Thursday called four public meetings to gather input about the two proposed transportation sales tax referendums that Reed wants on the Nov. 8 ballot. By state law, MARTA must present a preliminary list to the city by May 31 for a proposed transit tax increase to appear on a ballot this year.
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GSU gets good credit report as closing nears on Turner Field
Georgia State University has received good news about its credit rating as the university comes closer to needing about $100 million to pay for its share of buying and redeveloping Turner Field and its environs.
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Home Depot welcomes Arthur Blank at its 2016 annual meeting
A special guest attended Home Depot’s annual meeting Thursday morning – co-founder Arthur Blank
It was only the second annual meeting that Blank had attended since he left the company in 2002. The last time was in 2008 – the first year that Frank Blake was CEO of the home-improvement company.
“They are doing a fabulous job,” Blank said adding that “fabulous” was an inadequate word to describe how well the company was doing.
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Metro Atlanta Chamber moving to 191 Peachtree tower
The Metro Atlanta Chamber will be moving from its own multi-story building on Centennial Olympic Park to the 34th floor of the 191 Peachtree Tower by the end of the year.
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Coca-Cola’s 130th anniversary celebration shows Atlanta as it used to be
The Coca-Cola Co. took Atlantans back in time Monday when they adorned a building a Five Points with a life-sized photo depicting the long-ago demolished Jacob’s Pharmacy where Coke was first served and sold on May 8, 1886.
Jacob’s Pharmacy stood at 12 Marietta St. at Five Points, what has been the historic heart of Atlanta.
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PATH400 raises $605,000 in donations to build walking, cycling trail in Buckhead
PATH400 has raised $605,000 to continue building the walking and biking greenway through Buckhead. Donors responded to a $250,000 challenge grant from the Loudermilk Family Foundation.
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Veritiv holds second annual meeting – attracting one shareholder
Sandy Springs-based Veritiv – which will soon be officially designated as a Fortune 500 company – held its second annual meeting Thursday at the Westin Atlanta Perimeter Norh – close to its new corporate offices.
For the second year in a row, the meeting attracted only one Veritiv shareholder. This year it was Suzanne Mulcay from Marietta.
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Shooting death, GSU report shine light on risks facing homeless youths in region
A shooting death Wednesday following an altercation outside a Downtown Atlanta homeless shelter underscores the dangers facing the region’s homeless youths, whose issues are detailed in a new report from Georgia State University.
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Sustainable inventions provide glimpse into a future where energy is less impactful
A panel that reduces energy consumption in commercial buildings by behaving like fish gills was one of four inventions presented at the recent Energy Summit hosted by the Atlanta Better Buildings Challenge.
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Operation HOPE welcomed to Atlanta with hopes of greater equity
As Atlanta’s top business and civic leaders officially welcomed Operation HOPE moving its global headquarters in the city, the conversation quickly turned to equity.
The welcome luncheon was held Monday at the Federal Reserve of Atlanta, a rather elegant setting to talk about poverty along with financial inclusion and literacy. Operation Hope also announced Atlanta Uplift 2020 – to help make it a model city of lifting people out of poverty.
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Atlanta sets stage to extend streetcar by 2.5 miles, to BeltLine’s Westside Trail
Atlanta is moving forward with a $1 million environmental analysis of a proposed route of the Atlanta Streetcar that would run 2.5 miles from Centennial Olympic Park west to the Atlanta BeltLine’s Westside Trail.
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Plano, Texas shows how rail transit can positively transform a suburban city
The Dallas metro area showed regional Atlanta leaders Friday that connecting suburban cities with rail transit can invigorate and strengthen those communities.
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First turtle nest of 2016 in Georgia spotted on Cumberland Island
Georgia’s first loggerhead turtle nest of the year has been found on Cumberland Island, fueling hopes the number of nests of this threatened species will continue to rebound from a drop in 2014.
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Savannah port benefits from good access, capacity, proximity to Atlanta: CBRE
A new report by CBRE, the real estate company, sheds light on the reason the Savannah port is growing its cargo business so quickly. It’s because the port has the capacity to handle a lot of freight, which makes it a good choice for shippers looking for a port on the east coast.
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Ron Kirk: Dallas and Atlanta ‘are building the new American cities’
Former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, who was mayor when the LINK delegation last came to this Texas city in 1999, said the Atlanta region and the Dallas-Fort Worth have much in common.
“We are two regions that have a lot of high class problems,” said Kirk, referring to the two fast-growing Sun Belt cities that are trying to have their infrastructure keep up with their growth.
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Mayors of Dallas and Fort Worth tell LINK delegation that Atlanta is a top rival
Somewhat grudgingly, the mayors of Dallas and Fort Worth on Wednesday paid tribute to Atlanta when addressing the LINK group visiting their respective cities.
But both mayors were quick to remind the 110 regional Atlanta leaders that they were in the presence of strong competition.
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TIME ranks two Gwinnett County cities among nation’s ‘Most Genius Places’
TIME magazine has included two cities in Gwinnett County on its list of, “The 100 Most Genius Places in America.”
Norcross ranked 14th on the list. Suwanee ranked 99th.
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Metro Atlanta LINK delegation arrives in Dallas-Fort Worth
On the 20th anniversary of the regional LINK trips to different North American cities, the 2016 delegation arrived ahead of schedule Wednesday – giving the group an opportunity to tour Sundance Square in downtown Forth Worth.
“Look how clean it is,” remarked Emory Morsberger, head of the Stone Mountain Community Improvement District. “I don’t even see any cigarette butts on the ground.”
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Refugee crisis deepens as doctors, hospitals and children attacked
Global health leaders convened in Atlanta to help raise an alarm of the dangers of the ongoing refugee crisis.
The issue has become especially acute because now doctors, health professionals and hospitals are becoming targets – as evidenced by the airstrike on a hospital in Aleppo – killing 14 people, including the most qualified pediatrician in Syria’s largest city.
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Atlanta City Council closes loophole that benefited developers of luxury apartments
The Atlanta City Council voted Monday to close a loophole that enabled apartment developers to use government subsidies to build luxury apartments in Atlanta without reserving any units for lower income residents, in violation of the city’s practice.
