By Maria Saporta
When Kaiser Permanente was looking for a location to locate a new innovation and information technology hub for 900 new employees, it knew it wanted to be public transit and in a walkable community.
So after considering Colorado and several sites in the metro area, Kaiser Permanente decided to move just north of the Woodruff Arts Center in Midtown.
As the U.S. moves to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba, a community health care director in Clarkston is slated to leave Sunday for Cuba to tour health facilities and examine the country’s universal health care system.
The City of Atlanta has a new director of the Office of Sustainability.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed sent out an announcement Thursday afternoon that said he had appointed Stephanie Stuckey Benfield as the new director of the office.
Benfield, a long time environmental advocate and a former state representative from DeKalb County, most recently has been serving as the executive director of Green Law, an environmentally-oriented law firm.
The burgeoning degree program of culinary sustainability at Kennesaw State University will be housed in a school named for Michael Leven, the president/CEO of the Georgia Aquarium who made a $5 million commitment to the program, the state Board of Regents decided Wednesday.
Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank does not know how to say “No,” and that is costing him another $100 million.
During a panel discussion at the Rotary Club of Atlanta Monday on the rejuvenation of the westside neighborhoods, Blank let it slip out that we view the “$1.5 billion stadium” as an incredible investment.
The state program that encourages commuters to find alternatives to solo trips kicks off a weeklong series of programs Monday to launch its “Be the Solution” initiative.
A dozen years after Congress created a commission to promote financial literacy, SunTrust Bank continues to provide volunteers to help students in metro Atlanta learn methods to manage their money.
The Atlanta Regional Commission soon will begin its review of plans to redevelop the site of Glenridge Hall, in Sandy Springs, to a live-work-play community that’s to open in 2020.
The 2015 Nobel Peace Laureate Summit in Atlanta has taken another bizarre (and confusing) twist and turn.
And it is still unclear how this latest development will impact whether Atlanta will host the 2015 Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates and who would be putting on the event from November 15 to 19.
The alternate route created when Martin Luther King Jr. Drive was closed to accommodate the Falcons stadium now has an alternate of its own, which is to remain in effect through the summer.
The Atlanta Based McKenna Long & Aldridge is combining with the world’s largest law firm – Dentons.
It is a combination that the key players of both McKenna and Denton believe will set the formula of how law firms will operate in the future. They will be global enterprises with “polycentric” home offices.
“We saw the opportunity to become part of their vision for the next generation law firm and to better serve our clients – locally, nationally and internationally,” said Jeff Haidet, who is chairman of McKenna Long and will become co-CEO of Dentons US.
By Maria Saporta
Wonya Lucas will be the new president and CEO of Public Broadcasting Atlanta – the entity that oversees WABE-90.1 FM and -Channel-30.
Lucas, an Atlanta native, will succeed Milton Clipper, who has been in that position since 1994. She was selected from a national search assisted by BoardWalk Consulting that ended up with 20 prospective candidates.
The future of 2015 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates will be decided in Rome on May 2nd and 3rd, according to a release issued April 7 from the international organization that oversees the event.
The Permanent Secretariat of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates decided to convene a meeting of Nobel Peace Laureates in May to try to settle the controversy that has erupted in Atlanta between the organizing leader and City Hall.
Atlanta will host a Summit for Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in November, according to a press release written on behalf of Muhammad Yunus, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Yunus was instrumental in Atlanta winning the rights to host the event, to take place Nov. 15 to 19, from the Secretariat of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates.
The largest philanthropic foundation in the state of Georgia – the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation – on Tuesday said good-bye to one of its key trustees – Charles H. “Pete” McTier.
McTier, 76, who served as president of the Woodruff Foundation from 1988 to 2006 and has been a trustee ever since, has reached the mandatory retirement age.
Britt Pendergrast was only 17 when he saw Nan Schwab for the first time at a party at Margaret Bryan’s Dance Studio on Peachtree Street.
That was 80 years ago. On March 30, the Pendergasts celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary – and on Saturday, April 4, they invited close friends to their home to share their joy.
When Curtis Foltz looks to the future, the head of the Georgia Ports Authority sees a day when ports around the nation won’t be able handle the demand for moving freight.
“Generally speaking, our ports are falling way behind in terms of modernizing, capacity, velocity, and utilizing capital,” said Foltz, GPA’s executive director since 2010 and head of the nation’s fourth largest, and fastest growing, container port.
Poachers may be to blame for the slow recovery of alligator snapping turtles in Georgia, according to the Georgia Department of Wildlife.
Wildlife researcher Rachel King reported that people she met on the Flint River during her survey of snappers last summer complained about the turtles being protected. They told her snappers are good to eat, according to a DNR statement.
Transit can be funded with proceeds of the transportation funding bill state lawmakers have sent to Gov. Nathan Deal, and priority for highway funding shall be assigned to congested regions of the state – such as metro Atlanta.
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.
