“Downtown Atlanta is back, y’all.” Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens declared the urban core’s revival at the largest-ever annual Central Atlanta Progress and Atlanta Downtown Improvement District meeting and awards celebration on Mar. 11. The annual meeting came with plenty of updates about the state of downtown Atlanta, and one major announcement: The group known as […]
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Tour down Edgewood Ave – Five Points to Inman Park MARTA – various dates
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Bicycles in Atlanta – various dates
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CAP’s Stitch project moving forward as Connector park in Midtown put on hold
Three proposals to cap over Atlanta’s highways – the Stitch, the Connector and HUB404 – are now down to two.
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Atlanta Pride Parade – Peachtree Street – October 15, 2023
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Retrospective – Georgia Veterans Day Parade – Downtown Atlanta 2019
Georgia Veterans Day Parade and activities have moved to The Battery at Truist Park, but please enjoy this look back at the Parade downtown in 2019.
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Is downtown’s recovery a moment, a movement or something new in Atlanta’s history?
Is downtown’s recovery a moment, a movement or something new in Atlanta’s history? By Michelle Hiskey On July 3, you are invited to a new event at Centennial Olympic Park. Look Up Atlanta is billed as the biggest fireworks show in the Southeast, and organizers are hoping you will remember it as a turning point […]
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Underground’s new owner – Shaneel Lalani – buys nearby office tower
The new owner of Underground Atlanta – Shaneel Lalani – has bought a key office tower two blocks away.
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COVID pushed public meetings online; more Atlantans join in neighborhood planning
The digital divide is real, but a hybrid online/offline meeting model may bridge it.
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Cash from Gulch deal’s affordable housing trust fund allocated toward ‘offsetting rising property taxes’
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Monday announced the first chunk of an affordable housing trust fund spawned from the controversial Gulch redevelopment deal would go toward combating displacement among the city’s longtime residents.
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AH to install billboard atop HQ to raise money for affordable housing, scholarships
Seeking new revenue streams to fund affordable housing creation and scholarship programs, Atlanta Housing (AH) officials are planning to erect a billboard atop the agency’s downtown headquarters.
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Complaints about parking deck costs, lack of finance put three Atlanta developments in line for property tax breaks
Preliminary OK for property tax breaks worth $11.5 over 10 years to Grant Park, Atlantic Station and Downtown developers.
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Remembering the 1906 Race Riot in Atlanta
Last month marked the 113th anniversary of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot. The three-day massacre occurred from Sept. 22-24, and once the flames were extinguished, Atlanta was forever changed.
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Architect Alex Garvin reflects on Atlanta and the BeltLine
It’s hard to pigeon-hole Alex Garvin. Yes, he’s an architect. But he’s also a professor, an author, a public servant, an urbanist, a visionary and someone who has had a major impact on Atlanta.
Garvin was in Atlanta last week to give a talk Aug. 15 at a luncheon organized by Central Atlanta Progress and the Urban Land Institute –Atlanta
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Not all aboard with new philosophy of mobility in Downtown Atlanta
A new philosophy of mobility in Downtown Atlanta is to be ready for use in three years. Not everyone is on board. The Atlanta City Council on Monday issued a split decision, 11-4, in favor of the first phase of the concept – to convert part of Baker Street from a one-way to a two-way street.
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Sad song: ‘The Old Town Road’ ends at Margaritaville
By King Williams Any day now, the city of Atlanta will approve the demolition permits for 141 Walton Street and 152 Nassau Street, home of the first-recorded country music song. This demolition is for the construction of a Jimmy Buffett Margaritaville Bar and Hotel. The irony is that we are witnessing another large moment in […]
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Let’s start talking highway removals in Atlanta
By: King Williams What started as an initial tweet on my Twitter timeline concerning freeway removals has led to a great online conversation on what to do concerning our highways. So hear me out before you say “we don’t have money for X, Y, and Z.” The city and state are willing to spend money […]
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On hold: possible new tenant, parking deck for old World of Coke
The beverage shrine-turned-vacant building that was once the World of Coke isn’t going to get a new tenant — or a parking deck beside it — anytime too soon.
