MARTA’s interim leader Jonathan Hunt will be the next permanent CEO. On Aug. 13, the MARTA board of directors announced Hunt would permanently take on the transit agency’s top job after a lengthy search. The finalists were announced four days ago; he beat out Cleveland Ferguson III from the Jacksonville Transportation Authority and Leroy Jones from […]
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Undeveloped Acreage
G.W. Collier was one of those Atlantans who arrived just as the ground itself was beginning to whisper opportunity. When he first came to the region, there was little more than wilderness, wagon ruts, and the faint outlines of a future not yet agreed upon. By the time Marthasville took on the name Atlanta, Collier […]
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Anonymous account uses art to fill holes and create a rallying cry: ‘Fix ATL’
Fix-ATL means two things. First, it’s a handle for an anonymous social media account covering sidewalk holes across the city. Second, it’s a call to action to fix the city of Atlanta. And it all began as an art project. Editor’s note: The person behind the Fix-ATL social media account wished to remain anonymous for […]
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The streetcar that almost wasn’t
Most people assume Atlanta’s first street railway began with rails and horses. It didn’t…It began with an idea. Just one year after the Civil War ended, while Atlanta was still clearing away the wreckage of war, a handful of visionary citizens convinced the Georgia legislature to charter a street railway company. It was a bold […]
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Decide DeKalb puts another $75 million to major housing bond program
Decide DeKalb Development Authority is set to administer another $75 million bond for its ambitious $155 million Housing Investment Bond Program, according to a July 31 announcement from the Board of Directors. Weeks earlier, the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners greenlit the Housing Investment Bond Program with an initial $25 million bond issuance. The resolution […]
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Century-old mansion on Peachtree Street seeks buyer with passion for preservation
One of the city’s only remaining unrenovated Victorian mansions on Peachtree is up for sale, and the owner is seeking a preservation-minded buyer with $2.58 million to spare. Nestled among condos and high-rise buildings sits the “Rufus M. Rose House,” a Victorian home built in 1901 for local physician Dr. Rufus M. Rose. The red-brick […]
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The Mission has Changed
What if one sentence could change the way you see an entire story? Years ago, I told the story of Roger Babson and the unusual monument he placed on Emory University’s campus. While revisiting that story, one phrase on the monument’s inscription caught my attention and sent me down a path I hadn’t explored before. […]
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Atlanta’s First Great Nickname
Atlanta knew how to throw a party. When the nation’s railroad leaders came to town in 1857, the city welcomed them with such enthusiasm that many Atlantans climbed aboard the departing train and traveled all the way back to Charleston just to keep the celebration going. Somewhere along that unforgettable journey, Atlanta earned a nickname […]
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Invest Atlanta greenlights $18 million bond to Clark Atlanta University improvements
At a July 16 Invest Atlanta board meeting, the city’s economic development agency approved an $18 million tax-exempt revenue bond to pay for construction of improvements and new amenities to the Clark Atlanta University campus. It will pay for a new dining facility, new North Campus gateway and the demolition of two vacant, outdated dorms. […]
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Atlanta marks 30 years since Olympics with documentary screening on the Games’ legacy
On July 18, 1996, the Olympic torch touched down at Atlanta City Hall. On Saturday, a group of Olympic aficionados will celebrate 30 years since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics at the Tara Theater. The theater will host a screening of the award-winning local documentary “The Games in Black & White,” which tells the story of […]
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Atlanta History Center opens ‘More Perfect Union: The American Civil War Era,’ its most ambitious exhibit so far
On July 10, the Atlanta History Center will open its most ambitious exhibit yet: “More Perfect Union: The American Civil War Era.” With hundreds of artifacts and roughly 9,000 square feet of space, the exhibit takes on the herculean task of telling the long tale of the Civil War. And it begins with a bang […]
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A Photographer’s Wink
Every photograph captures a moment. Most are forgotten. In 1927, someone walked the streets of downtown Atlanta with a camera, methodically photographing storefront after storefront. At first glance, the images seem almost painfully ordinary. A grocery store. A hardware shop. People standing on a sidewalk, unaware that anyone would ever care. A century later, those […]
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The magic of the World Cup has come to Atlanta
On June 15, Atlanta hosted its first ever FIFA World Cup game. While the game ended scoreless, it provided one of the most stunning upsets in World Cup history, as Cape Verde, the smallest country by land area and the second least populated country to ever qualify, stopped tournament favorites Spain from scoring. After the […]
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Before the Storm
By the late 1850s, Atlanta had already transformed from a rough railroad settlement into one of the South’s fastest-growing cities. In this installment of Iron and Ambition, our ongoing series of the history of Atlanta, we explore the final years before the Civil War as the young city worked to keep pace with its remarkable […]
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An affordable housing development in English Avenue was almost dead in the water. Then a city council member introduced new stream buffer legislation.
Outside the mixed-use development at 880 North Avenue, a “before” photo on an easel showed an abandoned house that had fallen into disrepair. The gray house was missing siding in places, and part of the roof had caved in — a striking contrast to the modern multi-story building that sprang up to take its place. […]
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Queer Atlanta filmmaker explores the ‘in between’ with debut feature
In August 2025, Atlanta-based actor Nicholas Molencupp decided he wanted to make a feature film. Now he’s putting the finishing touches on his debut feature as a writer, director and star, a project called “In Between.” It’s the object of many filmmakers’ fantasies. In less than a year, Molencupp went from table reads to the […]
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How Atlanta could combat climate-driven flash flooding
On May 20, a storm cell hit Atlanta, causing catastrophic flooding and extreme traffic congestion. With inches of water covering much of the Downtown Connector, commuters became stranded, and local waterways were filled with polluted runoff that killed an unprecedented number of fish. With many climate experts warning that flash flooding will only continue to […]
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Atlanta’s Forgotten Pioneers
It is not hard to imagine how difficult life must have been for America’s early settlers. Most of us today would be ill-equipped at best to walk out into the wilderness and make a home for ourselves. In the 1800s however, it would have been expected of you. Tales abound in American history of the […]
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The Rise and Fall of the Peachtree Arcade
For nearly fifty years, Atlantans passed through a grand archway and entered a world unlike anything else the city had ever known. Beneath a soaring skylight, shoppers wandered marble corridors, entrepreneurs launched businesses, friends met for lunch, and generations of Atlantans gathered in what was once one of downtown’s most remarkable destinations. Known as the […]
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There’s a nickname for that
What if you moved to Atlanta and suddenly couldn’t understand the conversation around you? Not because people were speaking a different language, but because they were speaking Atlanta. Over the years, Atlantans have developed a remarkable habit of renaming the places, landmarks, institutions, and traditions that shape daily life. Some of those names are so […]
