DeKalb County has no plans to ask voters this year to raise the sales tax to pay for transit expansion, according to DeKalb CEO Michael Thurmond’s office. The decision leaves unfunded projects including the one to serve the area at Emory University.
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Little Five Points project to improve safety of pedestrians, bicyclists, vehicles
Little Five Points is to be a safer and more pleasant place to walk and bicycle upon completion of a project that got its start Monday with $290,000 in funding approved by the Atlanta City Council.
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Portman’s $1 billion Midtown move: MARTA’s North Avenue Station, Patterson funeral home
Portman Holdings has set its sights on $1 billion in development in Midtown – the $400 million remake of MARTA’s North Avenue Station, and the $600 million development a half-mile away, at the former H.M. Patterson & Son-Spring Hill site.
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Emory University to borrow $2.1 billion with support from Georgia
Georgia has agreed to issue up to $2.1 billion in bonds on behalf of Emory University. The money is to help fund new construction and refinance existing debt.
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Atlanta officials consider more than doubling development impact fees
Atlanta City Council leaders and other city staff are hashing out a plan to update the so-called “impact fee program,” which utilizes funds collected from developers and directs them toward public services, such as infrastructure projects.
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East Point Mayor: Make sure development happens “with” residents, not “to” them
“What we do have is a real belief in the fact that things can be different.”
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Looking to the future of experiencing nature, as seen at Blue Heron Nature Preserve
Atlanta’s Blue Heron Nature Preserve has started “Spread Your Wings,” a social distancing program with a broader purpose of expanding the preserve’s role as an urban ecology center oriented around a new three-mile trail system that traverses ridgelines across 30 acres in Buckhead.
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Tom Cruise could be filming on Space Station before rockets launch from Camden County
Tom Cruise might be filming a movie on the Space Station before the first rocket is launched from a proposed spaceport in Camden County, north of Jacksonville.
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Post pandemic: Views on sustainability, racial equity, just development practices
As the pandemic crisis passes, the new orders of life provide opportunities to improve conditions in terms of sustainability, racial equity in placemaking, and more just development practices. These are among the views expressed by the head of the U.N., a national author who examines Atlanta in an upcoming book, and a longtime urban planner now teaching at Georgia Tech.
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City of South Fulton: Creating a sense of place on a blank slate
When it comes to creating a sense of place, the three-year-old City of South Fulton started with a blank slate – for starters, the name doesn’t refer to a previously known community. Now it has Wolf Creek Amphitheater, a 200-acre development planned along the Chattahoochee River, and a detailed economic development plan that offers a vision of a Town Center.
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Future of placemaking: Engaging places need affordable homes, mobility, authenticity
By Guest Columnists BILL TUNNELL, JERRY SPANGLER and TOM WALSH, leaders of TSW, a planning, architecture and landscape architecture firm
Recently we had the pleasure of celebrating our firm’s 30th anniversary. It was both gratifying and humbling to look back on three decades of designing buildings, communities and green spaces, and reflect on how fortunate we have been to participate in what has arguably been a revolutionary time period in building design and placemaking.
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Norfolk Southern could sell its new headquarters in five years, company says in disclosure
Norfolk Southern could sell its new headquarters in Midtown five years after the lease begins in 2021, the company said in a recent financial disclosure. Atlanta’s development arm expects the company to stay in place 10 years as part of the $600 million package it provided the company.
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Modular construction could provide affordable housing, lower costs across the board
I begin with the belief that if the market could build affordable housing, it would. However, the market is obviously not building affordable housing. Why not? The answer is: construction costs (principally labor costs) are just too high for affordable housing to be built – at least built conventionally.
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Northwest tollway: Revenues high, rising as commuters seek to avoid traffic delays
Georgia’s foray into the next generation of road-building projects is proving so successful that the analysts have raised the credit rating on bonds that helped pay for it. Strong revenues result in fewer concerns about Georgia’s ability to repay a federal loan that helped fund the tollway in Cobb and Cherokee counties.
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Why save it? Just pave it – Conservation becoming tool of choice in Morgan County
By Guest Columnist CHRISTINE MCCAULEY WATTS, executive director of Madison-Morgan Conservancy
Would you like fries with that? Or fruit salad? We don’t always choose the healthier option, do we? It is our right. But at least the option exists these days: a sign that healthy choices are trending. Could it be that protecting a sense of place is beginning to trend, too?
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Atlanta-backed plan to waive impact fees on affordable housing advances in Legislature
Impact fees on affordable housing could be waived under a statewide bill that’s endorsed by Atlanta and has been passed by the state Senate. Meantime, the potential state takeover of Atlanta’s airport is in a holding pattern, according to a presentation Wednesday by the city’s chief lobbyist.
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Six-month moratorium on development near Westside Park to be approved March 2
The Atlanta City Council is on track to establish a six-month moratorium for most new development in the gold-rush neighborhoods around the city’s future Westside Park. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms initiated the moratorium on Feb. 17.
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Building moratorium in Atlanta’s Westside to provide time to review housing costs, transportation
To provide a cooling-off period for review of public policies related to development in Atlanta’s heated Westside area, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has called for a six-month moratorium on new construction projects in the area. The mayor started by issuing an executive order to mandate a two-week moratorium, which expires March 2.
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New mural, ‘Seeds that are Planted,’ aims to inspire viewers in Atlanta’s Westside
The new mural that aims to connect the “past struggles, sacrifices and triumphs of our ancestors” stretches 130 feet along Joseph E. Boone Boulevard, welcoming visitors and residents to Atlanta’s historically black Vine City neighborhood.
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Tech Square’s Phase III continues momentum with naming, planned construction funding
Progress continues on the next development at Midtown’s Tech Square with the naming of the tower for a respected alumnus and nearly $31 million in construction funding that Gov. Brian Kemp included in his budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year.
