A group tasked with helping revitalize the Westside of Atlanta has named Quince T. Brinkley Jr. as its executive director.
The Westside Future Fund, an off-shoot of the Atlanta Committee for Progress, is tasked with generating and coordinating private sector support for the economic revival of the communities located west of the new Atlanta Falcons stadium.
Atlanta’s $3.65 billion proposal for transit along the Atlanta BeltLine and Atlanta Streetcar could soon be adopted into the city’s comprehensive transportation plan, following a public hearing scheduled for Tuesday at Atlanta City Hall.
Living in Midtown can be full of pleasant surprises.
Friday night was no exception.
Thousands of cycliest – adorned in a colorful variety of costumes and outfits – gathered at Piedmont Park along 10th Street along the meadow for the 3rd Annual Atlanta Moon Ride.
About 400 paddlers are scheduled to depart Saturday from the Statesboro area in the 11th annual Paddle Georgia fundraising event, and their route will take them down a waterway where environmentalists won a major victory.
Less than a mile separates the end of the Atlanta Streetcar tracks on Edgewood Avenue and the Atlanta BeltLine.
The City of Atlanta is applying for a $29.3 million grant in federal TIGER to connect these two magnets of economic activity by extending the Atlanta Streetcar to the Irwin Street entrance of the Atlanta BeltLine.
The TIGER 7 grant application outlines a project that would add 1.8 miles of track (round trip) to the existing Atlanta Streetcar at a total cost of $65.4 million.
A new report by Atlanta’s planning department promises the city will monitor the city’s tree canopy and update the tree ordinance, address blight and promote affordable housing, and make sure the planned bike share program starts this year.
The plot continues to thicken in the controversial Fort McPherson-Tyler Perry Studios land deal.
Now the City of Atlanta is proposing to spend up to $510,000 to build a new road on the land because Tyler Perry Studios will be closing all public access to the existing major streets that are part of the 330 acres it is buying.
That means that the City of Atlanta will have to build a new road that parallels the existing Walker Street so it will be able to access the property that will be used by the Veterans Administration, the Associated Credit Union and the federally-mandated services for the homeless.
The World Affairs Council of Atlanta re-elected David Abney, the CEO of UPS, as its chairman at its June 15 board meeting.
Clyde Tuggle, chief public affairs and communications officer for the Coca Cola Co., was elected vice-chair.
The Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. is continuing negotiations, with perhaps up to five experienced real estate developers or practioners, to sell 1.5 acres of land that’s adjacent to Piedmont Park and now is a parking lot next to Park Tavern.
A new visioning plan intends to guide the revitalization Atlanta’s first suburb developed for African Americans, a neighborhood where two thirds of residents who took a survey think the new Falcons stadium will have a negative impact on their community.
Atlanta can become the business gateway to Cuba, Mayor Kasim Reed said Friday morning after his quarterly meeting of the Atlanta Committee for Progress – a high-level group of business and civic advisors.
That is why Reed will be joining Ambassador Charles Shapiro, the president of the World Affairs Council of Atlanta, on a business-oriented trip to Cuba from June 27 to July 1.
The strategic international effort to eliminate river blindness (onchocerciasis) received a major boost today when philanthropist Sir Emeka Offor announced a $10 million gift to accelerate the fight against the devastating disease in Nigeria.
After spending more than seven years with the Perkins + Wills architectural firm, Ryan Gravel has decided to blaze his own trail once again.
Gravel is best known for writing his Master’s Thesis on a potential transformation of a 22-mile rail corridor surrounding central Atlanta – a project now known as the Atlanta BeltLine.
Piece by Piece, a regional initiative to address metro Atlanta’s foreclosure crisis, received a national award Thursday for its comprehensive approach that brings together 155 public and private partners.
Georgia is likely to provide money in the future to support transit, in addition to the $75 million the Legislature provided this year, Jay Roberts, the governor’s recently appointed transportation planning director, said Wednesday.
The Atlanta Community Food Bank has selected Kyle Waide as its new president and CEO – although there’s no expectation that he will be replacing Bill Bolling, the founder of the trend-setting nonprofit.
Waide, who joined the Atlanta Community Food Bank three years ago after a multifaceted career in nonprofits and with Home Depot, was selected after a national search that considered about 600 potential candidates.
A committee of the Atlanta City Council voted Tuesday to help Georgia Tech advance its plans to improve the pedestrian nature of the central campus, while ensuring vehicles can still traverse the campus, as Tech pursues plans to create an Eco Commons that is to speak to Tech’s social and environmental ambitions.
The first official step toward the first major overhaul of GRTA’s Xpress bus service in a decade is on track to be formally presented Wednesday to the board that oversees the regional transit agency. The board is to vote on the proposal in August.
Atlanta is moving forward with plans to create a pleasant place to walk and cycle along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, all the way from the future Falcons stadium to Fulton Industrial Boulevard. A new linear park is to be built.
The World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates has made it official.
The organization that had awarded the 2015 Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to Atlanta back in 2013 issued a release late Thursday afternoon confirming that it is moving on.
It will hold the 2015 Summit in Europe.
