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.
By Maria Saporta A dean of Atlanta’s advertising community – Dave Fitzgerald – will be handing over the position of CEO of Fitzgerald & Co. to Matt Woehrmann, currently executive vice president and the worldwide account director for Coca-Cola at McCann Worldgroup. Fitzgerald will become chairman of the Atlanta-based agency he founded 32 years ago. […]
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 predicts the construction cycle will expand in the upcoming 12 months. A similarly rosy outlook on development also is evident in a report released Wednesday by the Federal Reserve.
In the end, there was no peaceful resolution in Atlanta’s quest to host the Nobel Peace Laureate Summit in November, 2015.
The latest effort had been explored diligently by the Rotary Club of Atlanta, which finally voted unanimously at a board meeting Monday afternoon not to proceed with plans to host the 2015 Summit.
Rotary officials then informed Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and the Secretariat of World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates of its decision to not be the host organization in partnership with the City of Atlanta.
One of Georgia’s most fragile and significant natural locations – Little St. Simons Island – will be protected in perpetuity – as in forever.
The island is owned by Henry “Hank” Paulson Jr., the former U.S. Treasury Secretary and the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, along with his wife, Wendy. The Paulsons, who are both longtime environmentalists, have placed the 11,333-acre barrier island under a permanent conservation easement with the Nature Conservancy – which has been working on the Georgia coast for decades.
The Atlanta City Council on Monday is slated to confirm the final four members of the committee that is to review all construction and major renovation proposed along the Atlanta BeltLine.
Midtown took a major step Thursday in its evolution into a hub of high tech business when Atlanta’s development arm approved the issuance of up to $314 million in bonds to help fund the construction and equipping of the future global headquarters of NCR Corp.
(Update: Post includes a note to readers with the City of Atlanta’s press release on this announcement).
The City of Atlanta reportedly has hired a new commissioner of planning and community development — Tim Keane, who has held a similar position in Charleston, S.C.
Charleston Mayor Joe Riley announced Thursday that Keane, the city’s director of planning, preservation and sustainability, would be leaving his post on June 26 to come to Atlanta to work for Mayor Kasim Reed.
“I wouldn’t be leaving Charleston for just anything,” Keane told the Charleston Post and Courier. “This is a big job in a big city,…”
The mystery is now solved.
Doug Shipman, who recently announced he would be stepping down as the founding CEO of the Center for Civil and Human Rights – without disclosing his next move, will be the new CEO of BrightHouse LLC.
BrightHouse is the Atlanta-based “purpose-driven” consulting firm founded by Joey Reiman, a veteran marketing professional in Atlanta for decades.
Here is the interesting twist.
The Boston Consulting Group announced on Thursday that it is buying BrightHouse to “create a unique offering to help clients define their true purpose….”
Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. proposes to upgrade the area near Ponce City Market with a new park, the addition or improvement of amenities for bicyclists and pedestrians along Ponce de Leon Avenue, and five new traffic signals along North Avenue.
A gift of nearly $600,000 from Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson and his wife, Susan, helped close out the $12.5 million campaign to fund the Atlanta BeltLine’s Westside Trail.
The private fundraising campaign was crucial in securing an $18 million TIGER V grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, which is accelerating construction on the Westside Trail by two to three years.
Leadership Atlanta has selected 55 community leaders to join its 2016 LEAD Atlanta Class – a program that empowers young leaders early in their careers.
The LEAD Atlanta program seeks to teach the young professionals the skills and knowledge they will need to create enduring positive change in the community.
It was June 6 (D-Day), 1990.
The Georgia Research Alliance was holding its first board meeting with Larry Gellerstedt Jr. chairing the meeting in the “war room” at the former offices of Central Atlanta Progress in the Hurt Building.
An “iconic” photo memorializing that historic first meeting adorned the cover of the workbooks of GRA members attending the board meeting May 21 at the Commerce Club to celebrate the organization’s 25-year anniversary.
Georgia is considering a hike in the cost of fishing licenses for the thousands of anglers who flock to wet a line on Memorial Day and other days during the year. The cost of a hunting license could increase, as well.
Another high tech firm is moving from the suburbs to Midtown. This time, the company has global backers focused on digitizing the way drivers locate and pay for parking spaces.
Six months after a national publication featured University of Georgia in a story titled, “A River of Booze,” the chancellor has formed a task force on alcohol and substance abuse.
Lisa Gordon, who helped navigate the Atlanta BeltLine through the waning days of the great recession, will now serve Atlanta Habitat for Humanity as president/CEO, habitat’s board announced Tuesday
Atlanta’s quest to host the 2015 Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates has taken yet another twist falling just short of a final decision.
The last week could be described as one where the Summit moved two steps closer and one step back with receiving a final green light to move forward from all the necessary players.
The construction moratorium along Memorial Drive could be lifted in early June, and new energy could be put behind a dormant task force that was supposed to implement a well-received planning study for the corridor, according to legislation introduced Monday to the Atlanta City Council.
For those who don’t want to be, or can’t be, one of the “select few” to own a new condo in Midtown and walk to work and play, GRTA is preparing to change its Xpress bus service in ways intended to improve the commute for current and future riders.
