BALTIMORE – Once upon a time, Atlanta wanted to create the same kind of magic that enabled Baltimore to build a tourism destination around an aquarium. Those days seem long ago.
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Common Cause forces resignation of Georgia leader as part of national realignment of interests
The forced resignation of William Perry, former executive director of Common Cause of Georgia, speaks to the breadth of redirection of the national organization under the leadership of former Clinton cabinet member Robert Reich.
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The Castle, home of Atlanta’s “most interesting & creative humans,” could gain historic status
The Castle mansion in Midtown has been nominated for the National Register of Historic Places, according to an agenda item slated for consideration Wednesday by the Atlanta Urban Design Commission.
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Fox Theatre releases economic impact report showing $25 million impact in 2014
The Fox Theatre released today an economic impact study that shows the financial returns of the effort begun 40 years ago to save the theater from demolition.
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Update of Atlanta’s 1952 truck route plan seeks to balance needs of freight industry, residents
Atlanta is completing the first update since 1952 of the city’s designated truck routes, and one road that is to be removed from the freight map leads to the Goat Farm Arts Center.
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Atlanta plans sustainability facility at airport to handle up 200,000 tons a year of trash, yard trimmings
Atlanta’s airport plans to hire a company to build and operate a recycling facility that ultimately is to handle 200,000 tons a year of airport waste and yard clippings collected around town, refuse that otherwise would end up in a landfill, according to a bid released Monday.
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Atlanta provides $48,000 for ongoing efforts to revitalize West End
The Atlanta City Council has provided $48,000 to the ongoing effort to improve the area around West End and Morehouse College, an area that a Georgia Tech plan suggests is on the brink of revitalization.
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Tim Keane: Atlanta’s new planning commissioner has a conversation with residents
For any number of reasons, Charleston, S.C. tugs on Atlanta’s heartstrings. Atlanta’s new planning commissioner seems comfortable with this relation, and has devised a deft response to questions about why he left his job as chief planner with the Holy City.
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Environmental challenges around metro Atlanta began with early settlers: State report
Georgia’s population boom of the past 35 years is just the latest contributor to environmental challenges facing metro Atlanta and much of the state’s Piedmont region. Past activities to cultivate trees, crops and animals set the stage for today’s conditions, according to a state report.
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Plans to promote walking, cycling, transit help Chattanooga win federal transportation award
A plan to double spending on bicycle and pedestrian amenities by 2040, and add transit capacity, has earned a federal award for the transportation planning organization for Chattanooga, and its suburbs in Georgia.
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South Carolina joins Georgia in ruling against use of condemnation to build Palmetto Pipeline
A legal opinion issued by the office of South Carolina’s attorney general presents a new obstacle for a proposed pipeline for petroleum and ethanol to be built along the Savannah River and down the Georgia coast, to Jacksonville, Fla.
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Taking another crack at Atlanta’s food desert, this time targeting chronic disease
Georgia State University and Morehouse School of Medicine have received a $400,000 federal grant to promote healthier food and physical activity in black neighborhoods in southwest Atlanta, where rates of diabetes and cardiovascular disease are especially high.
In addition, Atlanta is poised to address the city’s food deserts through a $50,000 grant to a program that’s not related to the GSU/Morehouse partnership, a spokesperson for Invest Atlanta said Thursday.
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Memorial Drive may get self-taxing CID to help pay for bike lanes, sidewalks, round-abouts, etc.
Sidewalks, bicycle lanes and round-abouts could be installed along Memorial Drive sooner rather than later if commercial property owners support a possible tax hike. A newly formed group of volunteers is to devise a plan and gauge interest.
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Georgia ports seek to expand rail service as cargo traffic keeps rising
Most days at the port of Savannah, about 20 trains arrive to drop a load of goods for export, reload with imports, and depart a few hours later. The state plans to grow this business with a network of transport hubs in five surrounding states.
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Turner Field neighbors to Mayor Reed: Defer any deal until after ARC-funded study is complete
A coalition of organizations around Turner Field intend to ask Mayor Kasim Reed on Tuesday to defer any deal to redevelop the ballpark and its parking lots until after a $275,000 visioning plan is complete.
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Georgia was a magnet for lower income folks over the past 20 years
A new study from Georgia State University reveals that Georgia generally attracted lower income taxpayers during the boom of the 1990s and through the Great Recession, to 2011.
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Ga. Supreme Court ruling casts pall over Cobb County funding of Braves stadium
In a ruling Monday that validated the sale of bonds for the Braves stadium, the Georgia Supreme Court said the deal “may push the law as far as it can go.” The order also raised the question of political ramifications of the transaction.
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Metro Atlanta ranked 4th in green buildings as certification rates dip nationwide: CBRE report
Metro Atlanta ranks fourth nationally on a green building adoption index, according to a new report by CBRE that also revealed a slump in the national growth rate of certification for sustainability or energy efficiency in office buildings.
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I-285/Ga. 400 reconstruction to improve mobility, is part of GRTA’s expansion plans
Priced at about $1 billion, the reconstruction of the interchange of I-285 and Ga. 400 is to cost almost a third of some estimates for building the $3.6 billion transit system envisioned for the Atlanta Streetcar and Atlanta BeltLine.
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Atlanta poised to adopt $3.65 billion transit plan for BeltLine, Streetcar
Atlanta’s $3.65 billion proposal for transit along the Atlanta BeltLine and Atlanta Streetcar could soon be adopted into the city’s comprehensive transportation plan, following a public hearing scheduled for Tuesday at Atlanta City Hall.
