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Column: Invesco’s Marty Flanagan to lead Woodruff Arts Center campaign

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By Maria Saporta
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on May 20, 2016

The Woodruff Arts Center has tapped Martin Flanagan, president and CEO of Invesco Ltd., to chair its annual corporate campaign for 2016-2017.

The annual corporate campaign has raised more than $10 million to support all the arts and education programming of the Woodruff Arts Center and its divisions: the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the High Museum of Art and the Alliance Theatre.

“We are thrilled that Marty has agreed to chair our 2016 – 17 Annual Corporate Campaign,” said Doug Hertz, board chairman of the Woodruff Arts Center. “Marty and Invesco have been tremendous supporters of the Arts Center for years. Now he is doing even more by continuing the tradition of Atlanta’s most respected CEOs leading our annual corporate campaign.”

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Atlanta wins 2019 Super Bowl

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CHARLOTTE – Atlanta has won the Super Bowl for 2019.

A relieved contingent of Atlanta leaders celebrated after the 32 owners of the National Football League awarded the city the Super Bowl – Atlanta’s third ever.

Arthur Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons, at a press conference after the four-ballot vote, said he felt as though he was at the Academy Awards – needing to thank everyone who had played a part in getting Atlanta to this moment.

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After 20 years, LINK trips offer lasting lessons for Atlanta; Dallas delivers helpful insights

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For 20 years, metro Atlanta leaders have been traveling to other cities to gain insights on how to address our most pressing issues by seeing how other urban areas address theirs.

The LINK trips – organized by the Atlanta Regional Commission – also have played another vital role. They have helped leaders from all over the region get to know each other in an away-from-home setting – hopefully creating relationships so we can reach consensus and collaborate as we move forward.

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Heroes, dogs, and the wet nose of justice

by Jamil Zainaldin

This week, ALLISON HUTTON, of Georgia Humanities, introduces Melissa Fay Greene’s forthcoming book, The Underdogs: Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love.

“Our bond with dogs is an ancient facet of our humanity,” claims Melissa Fay Greene, award-winning author of The Underdogs: Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love, forthcoming from Ecco/Harper-Collins on May 17.

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An emotional Mayor Kasim Reed signs lease to keep Delta here for 20 years

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Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed was overcome with emotion during the public signing of the city’s 20-year lease agreement with Delta Air Lines – a lease that also includes a 10-year optional extension.

The mayor’s voice quivered as he fought back tears talking about one of his closest confidants and friends in Atlanta’s business community – Delta CEO Richard Anderson.

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How Atlanta Remembers

by Jamil Zainaldin

This week, ALLISON HUTTON, program coordinator at Georgia Humanities, explores the ways Atlanta remembers the Holocaust.

What — and how — does Atlanta remember? Recent years have seen Atlanta remember the Civil War through battle reenactments, exhibitions, and lectures on the occasion of the war’s sesquicentennial. Anniversaries notwithstanding, Atlanta’s Civil War past has always been important, as demonstrated by the city seal. The dates on the seal, 1847 and 1865, reference Atlanta’s beginning and its re-beginning, respectively. The motto spanning the top of the seal, resurgens (Latin for “rising again”), references Atlanta’s postwar recovery after being burnt by Sherman’s Union forces in November 1864. The seal’s mythical phoenix, rising from the flames, points to a connection between tragedy and triumph, the latter made all the more meaningful by the former.

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Column: American Heart Association’s Atlanta director gets national role

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By Maria Saporta
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on April 22, 2016

Michael Privette, who has served as the executive director of the American Heart Association’s Atlanta division for the past five years, is being promoted to a national role – as AHA’s nation director of the Go Red for Women Campaign – beginning July 1.

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Time running out as GM plant project stays stuck in neutral

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By Maria Saporta and Douglas Sams
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on April 15, 2016

The redevelopment of the 165-acre former Doraville General Motors plant, one of Georgia’s largest-ever real estate projects, is in danger of running into a ditch.

That dire assessment comes from the project’s developer, Atlanta-based The Integral Group LLC, which wants to turn the site along Atlanta’s northeast Perimeter into 10 million square feet of office towers, stores, apartments and restaurants on MARTA’s Gold Line. The concerns are also echoed by Doraville city officials and metro and county economic development leaders.

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Creating new cities causes social and economic fallout

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By Guest Columnist JOHN MATTHEWS, a retired city planner who specialized in urban growth policy and a retired instructor at both Georgia State’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and  at Georgia Tech

Metropolitan Atlanta is seeing the creation of an increasing number of local governments; there are many new cities and more are sure to come. There is additional movement to allow creation of new small school districts tied to the new cities.

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Column: Shan Cooper talks about why she left Lockheed for WestRock

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By Maria Saporta
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on March 11, 2016

One of Atlanta’s senior women executives – Shan Cooper – stepped down as vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin in Marietta on Feb. 5 so she could stay in town. Fortunately, she was able to stay in Atlanta by joining the executive team of WestRock, a Fortune 500 company that is co-headquartered in Richmond, Va. and Norcross.

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United Way HQ sale could cause waves for nonprofits

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By Maria Saporta and Doug Sams
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on March 11, 2016

United Way of Greater Atlanta has selected real estate services firm Colliers International to market its 4-acre downtown campus for a possible sale.

Colliers beat out three other firms, after pitching a proposal to United Way that included the possibility of selling the 18-story tower on the campus and converting it to student housing.

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Changing lives, perspectives, and cities: a GSU Study Abroad program

by Jamil Zainaldin

This week, guest columnist TANYA CALDWELL, Georgia State University professor of English, shares the special connection between Atlanta and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

By Tanya Caldwell

Jimmy Carter’s outstanding legacy is his work in developing understanding between different peoples. A little of that work is being done annually at Georgia State University as a direct result of President Carter’s first foreign visit to Newcastle-upon-Tyne on May 6, 1977.

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The “Furious Five”: A sizzling Atlanta urban Republican dialogue. Where is Black Atlanta in the “All of It”?

by Maynard Eaton

I now call them the “Furious Five” – an eclectic crew of friends and political knowers – who were invited to participate in the first of a month long series of “unbridled” conversations about the political issues of the day. And, they put on a dazzling, dynamic show; their debate was robust, riveting and revealing.

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