It can be done.
To all the naysayers who view dilapidated older buildings as lost causes, stop by the Atlanta Daily World building at 145 Auburn Ave.
The attractive red brick building today stands as a testament of what a sensitive developer who has a passion for the historical integrity a place in time can accomplish.
Georgia State University chief economist Rajeev Dhawan predicted today the Federal Reserve will wait until autumn to begin raising interest rates, and even then will do so gingerly.
The Metro Chamber’s vice president of entrepreneurial development has resigned to become executive director of the new Georgia Business Success Center, in Cobb County.
SELMA – Thousands of people over the weekend descended on this small Alabama town with a population of less than 20,000.
Never before had Selma attracted these kind of crowds for the annual commemoration of Bloody Sunday – the re-enactment of the Selma-to-Montgomery March of 1965.
Two sectors of the economy of special importance in metro Atlanta present a mixed bag of indicators in the Federal Reserve’s latest “beige book.” The picture becomes even murkier once the state’s unemployment rate is counted.
Atlanta’s efforts to promote the technology industry now include a $1 million tax exemption for new and emerging businesses and an innovation campaign sponsored by the National League of Cities.
Forever 21. Atlanta now will have a new statue honoring one of its true sports legends – forever.
Dominique Wilkins was immortalized Thursday when a statue of him getting ready to lift his right arm to make a slam dunk was unveiled before of a Who’s Who of basketball legends and Atlanta dignitaries.
A running theme of several speakers – including former teammate Kevin Willis – was what took Atlanta so long.
After 16 years of planning and debate over the deepening of the Savannah Harbor, the federal government announced Wednesday it has hired a company to begin the first phase of dredging.
The Savannah Riverkeeper is sounding the alarm over a proposed 360-mile pipeline for refined petroleum and ethanol that’s to be built from South Carolina to Savannah and across coastal Georgia to Jacksonville, Fla. The first of five public meetings is set for Wednesday in Savannah.
The memorial mass for Donald R. Keough Tuesday morning resembled one for a head of state.
Actually, it was a fitting comparison. Keough actually was a head of many states – liberally defined.
So many of his various countrymen showed up Tuesday that there were overflowing crowds at the Cathedral of Christ the King as people came to pay their respects.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is slated to kick off at noon Monday the city’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March.
One of the most colorful and significant murals in Atlanta is no more.
An astute reader of SaportaReport, Joseph Hopkins, sent us an email wanting to make us aware that the Freedom Quilt Mural and the building that it had been painted on had both been demolished.
A tussle over banners for the Atlanta Jazz Festival may be emerging between the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs and Atlanta City Councilmember Joyce Sheperd.
Compared to other issues percolating in Atlanta City Hall, the banner flap may be more symbolic than significant.
After Wednesday night’s game at Philips Arena, one can no longer call fans of the Atlanta Hawks – fair weather fans.
More than 16,000 people showed up to watch the Atlanta Hawks play the Dallas Mavericks – a game that was played despite a state-of-emergency that had been called by Gov. Nathan Deal for a looming winter storm in parts of north Georgia.
As Tyler Perry prepares to purchase most of Fort McPherson, the Atlanta Regional Commission on Wednesday provided a $60,000 grant to update a 2004 master plan for the surrounding area.
The Atlanta Streetcar could make the city liable for tens of millions of dollars for repairs stemming from stray electricity used to power the system, city officials said Tuesday.
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Atlanta – and the entire Coca-Cola family worldwide – has lost a dear friend – Don Keough.
Keough, 88, served as president, chief operating officer and director of the Coca-Cola Co. over a span of decades – often serving as the public face of the company – especially to those he considered to be on the front line of the business – the bottlers and the retailers.
The south side of the Atlanta region will hit a milestone on March 21 when MARTA begins operating three bus routes in Clayton County.
It will have been nearly five years to the day that Clayton County has been living without public transportation. The last C-Tran bus rolled on the county’s streets on March 31, 2010.
Additional bus service will be added on Aug. 8, and even more bus lines will be added on Dec. 12.
State lawmakers who are still counting votes on the proposed transportation funding legislation may also be watching for opposition such as that which is mounting on the Fayette County Board of Commissioners.
Former House Speaker Mark Burkhalter took the oath of office Thursday to represent the 6th congressional district on the board that oversees the Georgia Department of Transportation.
