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A jubilant mood filled the room as the new owners of the Atlanta Hawks met with the local media for the first time on Thursday.

“That was my first press conference ever,” Tony Ressler, the principal owner of the team, admitted after it was over.

It also was the first time that Atlantans were able to get an up close and personal look of the man who will own perhaps the city’s most beloved sports team in 2015.

East Point is gaining national fame – not necessarily for the right reasons.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced late Tuesday that it has placed East Point’s Historic Civic Block on its 2015 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.
The Historic Civic Block includes the East Point City Hall, the City Auditorium, the City Library and Victory Park – a contiguous block that has been the heart of East Point since the 1930s.

Atlanta native Rohit Malhotra, executive director of the Center for Civic Innovation, has been awarded the prestigious and coveted “Fellowship” from the global nonprofit Echoing Green.

The 2015 Fellowships were announced Tuesday.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.