WILMINGTON, N.C. – North Carolina is expanding its seaports and bridges in a comprehensive effort to promote economic development in shipping and tourism along its remote coastal communities.
Tag: Development
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United Way’s downtown campus eyed for sale, redevelopment
The United Way of Greater Atlanta is exploring options for its downtown campus that could include the sale of the 4-acre property, as developers and their capital partners continue gravitating back to the city’s urban core.
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Georgia’s new road funding could obliterate historic sites
A consequence of the transportation funding bill approved in 2015 by the General Assembly has prompted archaeologists to present their opposition Monday at the Capitol to a measure they say would cripple historic research and preservation.
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Let’s develop affordable housing for all of Atlanta’s residents
By Guest Columnist HATTIE DORSEY, a concerned citizen who is a former president of Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership
A policy for affordable housing has been a long time arriving.
Soon the Atlanta City Council will deliberate a proposed policy on inclusionary housing to be submitted by Councilmember Andre Dickens, chair of the City’s Community Development Committee.
Posted inMaria Saporta, WABE
Commentary: Planners eye Atlanta’s potential growing pains
What does Atlanta want to look like when it grows up? That’s a question city planners are faced with.
They’ve launched the “Atlanta City Design Project,” which aims to be pro-active about how we handle future growth and development. For decades, we’ve been reacting to proposals from developers and market forces rather than setting our own course.
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Atlanta’s design project to unfold as a movable feast in three sites around city
The first six months of public meetings for the upcoming Atlanta City Design Project will occur at Ponce City Market in space donated by its developer, pending approval of legislation the Atlanta City Council is expected to adopt Monday.
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MARTA’s Brookhaven development stalled; city wants more discussion about density
The mixed use development planned at MARTA’s Brookhaven Station has been put on hold by Brookhaven city officials, who want to have a broader discussion about the area’s infrastructure before homes, shops and a hotel are built at the site.
Posted inATL Business Chronicle
Column: Zoo working to raise $4.3 million for expansion by June 30 deadline
By Maria Saporta
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on February 19, 2016
Zoo Atlanta has been hard at work raising money – announcing another $7 million in new gifts — toward its “A Grand New View: Elephants, Events and Expansion” campaign.
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City of Atlanta designing for its future
The City of Atlanta is going where it has never gone before. It is developing a “design” for the city.
In January, the City hired Ryan Gravel, best known as the visionary behind the Atlanta BeltLine redevelopment, to be the manager of the Atlanta City Design Project.
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Legislation to block Palmetto Pipeline pending Feb. 23 in South Carolina, Georgia
The coming days could tell a lot about the potential of the Palmetto Pipeline being built across sections of Georgia and South Carolina.
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Moores Mill Road shopping center to break ground, could mark area’s upswing
The back-and-forth at Atlanta City Hall over the fate of a road project in northwest Atlanta has ended with the announced groundbreaking for a shopping center along Moores Mill Road.
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More of Atlanta’s history erased with Tuxedo home demolition
It’s so sad to see a historic home demolished – especially without a full vetting of all possible options to save it.
That was the case with the “Maddox House” designed by famous Atlanta architect Phillip Trammel Shutze at 3665 Tuxedo Road.
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Let’s design a safer Atlanta for pedestrians and cyclists
Shifting Atlanta from a city centered around cars to one focused on people on foot or bicycles faced a reality-check on Friday.
Alexis Hyneman, a 14-year-old student at Grady High School, lost her young life when a car hit her while she was riding her bicycle Thursday at the super-confusing intersection of 10th Street, Monroe Drive and the Atlanta BeltLine.
Posted inATL Business Chronicle
City, developer still committed to Underground Atlanta deal
By Maria Saporta and Amy Wenk
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on February 5, 2016
Despite another delay in the closing of the Underground Atlanta sale to WRS Realty, both the city and the developer said they are committed to the deal.
The transaction has gotten held up over a proposed land swap between the City of Atlanta and the State of Georgia.
The city has committed to the developer that the sale would include a state-owned parking facility located in between Underground and Georgia State University. And the state is interested in swapping that for the Bobby Jones Golf Course in Buckhead.
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Georgia’s coastal marshland buffer zone again protected by state rules
Georgia has a new set of rules to govern development along the Georgia coast, and they provide the state with statutory authority to enforce a 25-foot salt marsh buffer.
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Vacant houses cost Atlanta millions a year, solutions not easy or cheap: Ga. Tech report
Blighted and vacant properties in the city of Atlanta come at a great cost in terms of services such as police and fire, lost property taxes, and the way they pull down values of neighboring properties, according to a new report by a Georgia Tech professor.
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Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed agrees to transfer 10 property deeds to APS
Given the new spirit of cooperation between the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta Public Schools, Mayor Kasim Reed said he is willing to transfer 10 property deeds to the school system.
Reed, speaking at the State of the City business breakfast Thursday morning at the Georgia World Congress Center, said he would ask the Atlanta City Council to transfer those deeds “right away.”
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Georgia Ports Authority names new leader, who will serve as harbor is deepened
The board that oversees the Georgia Ports Authority on Wednesday announced the appointment of a new executive director, just a week after announcing that 2015 was the ports’ busiest year ever.
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Mayor Kasim Reed seeks to remove mystery on Bobby Jones land swap deal
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed called the possibility of the State of Georgia getting ownership of the Bobby Jones Golf Course in Buckhead as the “biggest false crisis that I’ve seen.”
In an editorial board meeting with the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Tuesday morning, Reed said he wanted to remove the mystery around the possible land swap between a state-owned parking facility at Underground Atlanta and the city-owned Bobby Jones course. The swap has been tied to the closing of the sale of Underground to WRS Realty.
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Unlocking economic growth: Atlanta’s BeltLine, corridors and public spaces are key
If we can get the City, the BeltLine and APS all working in concert to promote quality development in marginal Atlanta neighborhoods, an economic renaissance could be in our future.
The bottom line is that multi-use trails have a greater economic return on investments than stand-alone parks. Trails also are a way to provide greater equity by offering greater access to green space that connects diverse neighborhoods.
