A new report by Atlanta’s planning department promises the city will monitor the city’s tree canopy and update the tree ordinance, address blight and promote affordable housing, and make sure the planned bike share program starts this year.
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Atlanta BeltLine negotiating sale of 1.5 acres near Piedmont Park with up to five entities
The Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. is continuing negotiations, with perhaps up to five experienced real estate developers or practioners, to sell 1.5 acres of land that’s adjacent to Piedmont Park and now is a parking lot next to Park Tavern.
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Visioning plan for Atlanta’s first black suburb reveals anxiety about Falcons stadium, hope for BeltLine
A new visioning plan intends to guide the revitalization Atlanta’s first suburb developed for African Americans, a neighborhood where two thirds of residents who took a survey think the new Falcons stadium will have a negative impact on their community.
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Local initiative to address foreclosure crisis receives national Housing Visionary Award
Piece by Piece, a regional initiative to address metro Atlanta’s foreclosure crisis, received a national award Thursday for its comprehensive approach that brings together 155 public and private partners.
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State likely to continue transit funding, as it plans to dispense $75 million for transit hardware
Georgia is likely to provide money in the future to support transit, in addition to the $75 million the Legislature provided this year, Jay Roberts, the governor’s recently appointed transportation planning director, said Wednesday.
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Atlanta steps up to help Georgia Tech promote pedestrian-friendly Eco Commons
A committee of the Atlanta City Council voted Tuesday to help Georgia Tech advance its plans to improve the pedestrian nature of the central campus, while ensuring vehicles can still traverse the campus, as Tech pursues plans to create an Eco Commons that is to speak to Tech’s social and environmental ambitions.
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Metro Atlanta’s new economic development plan evokes ties to mythical phoenix
Given that Atlanta’s symbol is the phoenix, it’s only natural that the region’s latest economic development plan begins by emphasizing the worst. Implicitly, the plan calls on the “can do” attitude of locals to fight back from wrack and ruin.
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Atlanta’s new planning commissioner should be allowed to plan
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed announced May 28 that he has selected Tim Keane of Charleston, South Carolina, as his new commissioner of planning and community development.
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Atlanta advances plan to retool MLK into complete street, with sidewalk, bike lane, linear park
Atlanta is moving forward with plans to create a pleasant place to walk and cycle along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, all the way from the future Falcons stadium to Fulton Industrial Boulevard. A new linear park is to be built.
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Atlanta budget predicts development cycle to expand over next 12 months
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 predicts the construction cycle will expand in the upcoming 12 months. A similarly rosy outlook on development also is evident in a report released Wednesday by the Federal Reserve.
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Final four appointees to Atlanta BeltLine Design Review Committee to be confirmed Monday
The Atlanta City Council on Monday is slated to confirm the final four members of the committee that is to review all construction and major renovation proposed along the Atlanta BeltLine.
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Midtown to benefit from $314 million bond deal Atlanta provided NCR to build, equip campus
Midtown took a major step Thursday in its evolution into a hub of high tech business when Atlanta’s development arm approved the issuance of up to $314 million in bonds to help fund the construction and equipping of the future global headquarters of NCR Corp.
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Atlanta BeltLine plans bike lanes, sidewalks, park near Ponce City Market
Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. proposes to upgrade the area near Ponce City Market with a new park, the addition or improvement of amenities for bicyclists and pedestrians along Ponce de Leon Avenue, and five new traffic signals along North Avenue.
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Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. proposes budget increase, trail extensions, planning for Streetcar extension
Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. has proposed a budget for the upcoming year that’s 27 percent larger than the current budget. Money is provided to design an extension of the Atlanta Streetcar, figure out how to connect the BeltLine to MARTA, build a park, and extend the Eastside and Westside trails.
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Midtown’s new IT firm is part of global consortium that seeks to profit from parking
Another high tech firm is moving from the suburbs to Midtown. This time, the company has global backers focused on digitizing the way drivers locate and pay for parking spaces.
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In wake of, “A River of Booze,” Georgia’s higher ed system to review alcohol, drug abuse
Six months after a national publication featured University of Georgia in a story titled, “A River of Booze,” the chancellor has formed a task force on alcohol and substance abuse.
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Atlanta Habitat for Humanity taps BeltLine’s Lisa Gordon as president/CEO
Lisa Gordon, who helped navigate the Atlanta BeltLine through the waning days of the great recession, will now serve Atlanta Habitat for Humanity as president/CEO, habitat’s board announced Tuesday
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Memorial Drive update: Legislation filed to rescind moratorium, compel task force to finish job
The construction moratorium along Memorial Drive could be lifted in early June, and new energy could be put behind a dormant task force that was supposed to implement a well-received planning study for the corridor, according to legislation introduced Monday to the Atlanta City Council.
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Memorial Drive construction moratorium reminds: ‘All politics is local’
Atlanta is a curious town when it comes to residents’ views of development. The latest example is unfolding in the wake of a six-month moratorium applied to development along the Memorial Drive corridor.
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GRTA revising service for those who aren’t flocking to Atlanta’s new condos
For those who don’t want to be, or can’t be, one of the “select few” to own a new condo in Midtown and walk to work and play, GRTA is preparing to change its Xpress bus service in ways intended to improve the commute for current and future riders.
