Charlie Loudermilk and John Portman sat shoulder to shoulder on a brilliant Tuesday in Atlanta as civic leaders thanked Loudermilk for his public service before cutting the ribbon on the Charlie Loudermilk Park.
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Woodruff Arts Center launches $100 million “Transformation” campaign
The Woodruff Arts Center held a Kumbaya breakfast Wednesday morning to launch its $100 million “Transformation” campaign.
The performing arts and cultural organization also announced that it already had raised $61.8 million towards its $100 million goal.
It also was the first time that anyone can remember, the Woodruff Arts Center brought together all of its board members as well as those of its various divisions.
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Mayor Kasim Reed willing to support 2015 Nobel Peace Summit in Atlanta – only if Mohammad Bhuiyan is not in charge
Mayor Kasim Reed is open to the city hosting the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Summit in November in Atlanta.
But he has one condition – that there is a change in governance and leadership in the organization and that Mohammad Bhuiyan was no longer involved.
“The takeaway is that I’m willing,” Reed said of the city being part of the Summit. “But there is no path forward with Dr. Bhuiyan as the leader of the effort.”
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Ronald A. Johnson of Texas Southern University to be new president of Clark Atlanta
Clark Atlanta University has named Ronald A. Johnson of Texas Southern University as its next president.
The university conducted a nationwide search to succeed Carlton Brown, the current president of Clark Atlanta, upon his retirement on June 30.
Johnson currently serves as the dean of Texas Southern University’s Jesse H. Jones School of Business.
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Kasim Reed: Atlanta Streetcar’s fare to be free through 2015
The Atlanta Streetcar will continue its free fares through the end of the year, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed announced at the annual breakfast meeting of Central Atlanta Progress.
The Atlanta Streetcar, which began operating its downtown loop on Dec. 31, was supposed to be free for the first three months. Then the fare was supposed to be $1 and be collected through MARTA and its Breeze card system.
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Andrea Young to join GSU’s School of Policy Studies as ‘scholar’
Andrea Young is joining Georgia State University as a “scholar in residence” at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.
Andrea Young has been executive director at the Andrew J. Young Foundation working to preserve and leverage the legacy of her father – a former mayor of Atlanta who also was a Civil Rights leader, a U.S. Congressman and the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
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Georgia Legislature provides a few wins for environmentalists: Solar energy, plastic bags
Georgia lawmakers have resolved two bills in favor of environmentalists – by passing one bill that promotes the installation of solar power, and by killing another that aimed to prevent local governments from regulating plastic bags.
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Mary Schmidt Campbell named new president of Spelman College
Spelman College has named Mary Schmidt Campbell as its 10th president of the Atlanta-based historically-black women’s institution.
Campbell, who will begin her new job on Aug. 1 following the tenure of Beverly Daniel Tatum’s 13 years as Spelman’s president, is the dean emerita of
the Tisch School of the Arts and university professor in the Department of Art and Public Policy at New York University.
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Cobb Chairman Tim Lee announces bid for reelection in 2016, touts Braves move
Cobb County Chairman Tim Lee touts the Atlanta Braves’ relocation to the Cumberland area as he announced his campaign for reelection in an email sent Saturday morning.
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Mayor Reed’s office responds to report on proposed sustainability ordinance
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s administration has what it describes as, “serious concerns over the accuracy of claims made,” in a March 24 report of an Atlanta City Council committee meeting on the administration’s proposed sustainability program for commercial buildings. The following is the complete text of a column produced by Denise Quarles, director of the city’s Office of Sustainability, in response to the story:
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Atlanta’s leading commercial real estate players blindsided by Mayor Reed’s sustainability plan
Major real estate interests in Atlanta, including Cousins Properties, Inc. and the Atlanta Hotel Council, said Tuesday they were blindsided by Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s proposed water and energy sustainability program.
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Parks can ignite growth in cities
Transit-oriented development now is becoming as common as highway-oriented development. The interdependent relationship between transportation and development has been undeniable.
But what about park-oriented development? Cities are now beginning to discover the economic ripples that come to communities when there are thriving parks close by.
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Georgia Tech awards Mike Dobbins for his students’ work with Atlanta’s blighted communities
Mike Dobbins is the first non-scientist to win Georgia Tech’s Innovation and Excellence in Laboratory Instruction Award, which recognizes his work with the CityLabs program in the School of City and Regional Planning.
Dobbins is best known these days for the reports and proposals his students have produced on sweeping urban redevelopments. Recent topics include Memorial Drive; Fort McPherson; West End; and Northside Drive (which influenced the debate over Atlanta’s provision of $200 million in bonds to build the Falcons stadium).
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Potential Atlanta mayoral candidates discuss design, development issues with AIA
For more than two hours Thursday evening, four potential candidates for Atlanta mayor in 2017 discussed the city’s design and development issues in a panel discussion hosted by Atlanta’s chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
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Georgia’s middle class shrinks even as household income plummets, Pew reports
A report released today by Pew Charitable Trust shows that Georgia’s middle-class has shrunk since 2000 – even as the benchmark, which is median household income, plummeted by 18 percent during the period.
Here are the numbers:
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CARE’s Helene Gayle to lead new global nonprofit for McKinsey & Co.
The outgoing CEO of CARE – Helene Gayle – will become the inaugural CEO of the McKinsey Social Initiative, a new nonprofit arm of the consulting giant.
Gayle, who had announced in October her intention to step down as CARE’s CEO at the end of June, sent an email to her colleagues Thursday morning informing them of her next career move.
“MSI is a new nonprofit organization founded by the global consulting firm McKinsey & Co.,” Gayle wrote.
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Mayor Reed’s legacy list grows as Wall Street approves city’s course
Following voter approval of Tuesday’s $250 million bond referendum, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed can add the improvement of Atlanta’s roads, bridges, sidewalks, and public facilities to his lengthening legacy list.
As Reed begins his sixth year as mayor, legacies of his tenure include:
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Clayton County welcoming MARTA as the start of a new day
As dignitaries and Clayton County residents gathered Saturday morning for a ceremonial ribbon-cutting of MARTA beginning bus service on March 21, Angel Lemond was trying to find out when buses would start serving Clayton State University.
“It costs me between $35 and $40 a day for a taxi to get and forth to Clayton State,” said Lemond, who found out that service to the university will start in August – the same month she is set to graduate.
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GRTA’s draft strategic plan envisions Xpress buses direct to airport, more service on major routes
GRTA is completing a strategic plan that envisions Xpress bus service direct to Atlanta’s airport as part of an expansion of a transit service that has consistently received state funds for operations since the great recession.
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Xernona Clayton celebrates her “Life to Remember” documentary with friends
The forever-young Xernona Clayton showed her life on the big screen Saturday night to a “small” group of 600 of her closest friends at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. They came to honor a woman who was born in Oklahoma and made it to Atlanta in 1964 after stops in Chicago and Los Angeles – becoming a close friend and associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
