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.
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State likely to continue transit funding, as it plans to dispense $75 million for transit hardware
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.
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Atlanta Community Food Bank picks Kyle Waide, its own executive, to follow Bill Bolling
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.
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Atlanta steps up to help Georgia Tech promote pedestrian-friendly Eco Commons
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.
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GRTA’s Xpress bus service up for major overhaul; final plan to be presented Wednesday
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.
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Atlanta advances plan to retool MLK into complete street, with sidewalk, bike lane, linear park
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.
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World Summit of Nobel Laureates: good-bye Atlanta; hello Europe
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.
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Dave Fitzgerald to become chairman of ad agency; Matt Woehrmann to become CEO
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. […]
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Atlanta budget predicts development cycle to expand over next 12 months
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.
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It’s over: last attempt to host 2015 Nobel Peace Summit in Atlanta fails
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.
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Hank and Wendy Paulson protect Little St. Simons Island forever
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.
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Final four appointees to Atlanta BeltLine Design Review Committee to be confirmed Monday
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.
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Midtown to benefit from $314 million bond deal Atlanta provided NCR to build, equip campus
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.
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City of Atlanta hiring Charleston planner to be new commissioner of planning-community development
(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,…”
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Doug Shipman to join new BCG-BrightHouse venture after Center for Civil & Human Rights
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….”
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Atlanta BeltLine plans bike lanes, sidewalks, park near Ponce City Market
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.
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Atlanta BeltLine Partnership closes out $12.5 million campaign for Westside Trail
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.
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Fifty-five young adults selected as part of 2016 LEAD Atlanta Class
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.
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Georgia Research Alliance – 25 years of partnerships between academia, business and government
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.
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Anglers, hunters could pay more for licenses under plan to be vetted around state
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.
