Atlanta is poised to ask the ARC to help fund a $200,000 study intended to help guide the redevelopment of neighborhoods surrounding Turner Field. The ARC would provide $160,000 and the city’s match of $40,000 would ...
The issue of whether the ARC board should seat citizen members who are developers who lead self-taxing-and-spending entities called CIDs gained some clarity Wednesday. The ARC again released at its monthly meeting a response that cites two ...
The city of Atlanta added more residents in the past year than it did during the entire first decade of the 2000s, according to an unofficial report from the Atlanta Regional Commission. Atlanta’s gain of 4,100 ...
Competing visions of who can serve as a citizen member of the board of the Atlanta Regional Commission emerged Wednesday as the board works to update its bylaws. Fayette County Chairman Steve Brown has asked the ...
The tangible elements of a lifelong community, one comfortable for the disabled and well as the aging, are on display through Sunday along Auburn Avenue, in downtown Atlanta. The two-block demonstration project is coordinated by the ...
ARC Executive Director Doug Hooker is pushing back against a new national ranking by Smart Growth America that shows metro Atlanta is one of the worst regions in the country when it comes to sprawl. Hooker ...
The newly formed Atlanta Aerotropolis Alliance bears a striking resemblance to Partnership Gwinnett, a public-private initiative that has created a strong record of economic development in Gwinnett County. Each entity was formed to attract jobs and ...
A new plan due for initial adoption Wednesday by the ARC board shows the extent to which $7-plus billion can go toward improving metro Atlanta’s transportation network. Planners talk up the will-do projects contained in this ...
Additional federal funding for a new bridge across I-75 in north Cobb County and a stormwater project along Ponce de Leon Avenue in DeKalb County were among six transportation projects approved Thursday in a proposed ...
The landscape of public transit has become clearer in metro Atlanta and elsewhere in Georgia, at least for the next year – not much will change. The state Senate essentially gave MARTA’s new GM, Keith Parker, ...
Richard Florida’s latest research shows metro Atlanta has become a tale of two regions and likely will continue on that trajectory. The wealth-generating creative region begins near downtown Atlanta and spreads north along Ga. 400 through ...
Metro Atlanta’s profile is changing with a dramatic growth of poverty in the suburbs. Several recent studies point to reality challenging the perception that the poor are concentrated in the central city while the middle-income and ...
One of the most vocal critics of the Atlanta Regional Commission attended his first board meeting on Jan. 23 as a new board member. Steve Brown, the recently-named chairman of the Fayette County Commission, was an ...
The Atlanta Regional Commission is embarking on its first reorganization in a generation, in order to meet the demands of the post-recession paradigm that’s emerging from the public and private sectors. Silos of expertise are to ...
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