Atlanta’s proposal to create a freestanding Department of Transportation – reporting exclusively to the mayor – was part of the long-term plan suggested by the city’s management consultant, but only after a slow transition to a new department. The Atlanta City Council begins its deliberations on April 22.
The mayor of Atlanta sat with her top staff and something near 100 written questions heavy on potholes and paving, received from attendees at a Cascade town hall Tuesday night. But the first question was in the form of a chant from protesters, demanding justice in the case of Jimmy Atchison, shot dead by a city police officer who’s now under investigation.
The idea is to make a one-stop-shop, and better coordination, for all things road-related.
“We’ve had the world’s busiest and most efficient airport for many years running, and this notion that the state can somehow run it better is presumptuous,” said Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms
Atlanta scored high marks in its hosting of Super Bowl LIII.
At a press conference Monday morning, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Atlanta did a great job hosting the largest U.S. sporting event.
John F. Kennedy Park in Atlanta’s historic Westside will be a lasting legacy of Super Bowl LIII.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms officially unveiled the renovated park Thursday morning, a cool but sunny occasion.
In honor of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the Atlanta Hawks took full advantage of the team’s relationship with its city and its native son.
Atlanta Public Schools will forego some property taxes as part of a city-state plan to subsidize development in the Gulch, in a deal that touches on such development subsidies across the city.
The Atlanta Regional Housing Forum celebrated its 30th anniversary this morning with remarks from Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.
“The whole idea of being county-specific is obsolete,” said Michael Thurmond, a board member of the new state-created transit authority that covers 13 counties, several transit operators and something around five million Georgians.
The groundbreaking of Ashley 1 at Scholars Landing in the Atlanta University Center campus on Nov. 2 broke more than ground.
It broke the ice that had existed for the past nine years between the City of Atlanta, the Atlanta Housing authority and the Integral Group, a development company specializing in community transformations.
After an eight-year freeze between the administration of Mayor Kasim Reed and the pioneers of Atlanta’s modern day transformation of public housing, a thawing is taking place.
That thaw was evident on the night of Oct. 18 when top leaders in Atlanta and the nation attended Integral’s 25thanniversary celebration at the Fairmont in west Atlanta.
Gov. Nathan Deal has appointed nine members to the under-represented board that oversees the redevelopment of Fort McPherson, including seven new members and two current members whom Deal reappointed. The seven new members include the spouse of an influential state senator, a Fulton County commissioner, a veteran housing executive and the Atlanta mayor’s chief of staff.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has sent a revised, and somewhat simpler proposal to City Council Council that still makes a big ask for future tax dollars to subsidize major new construction in the Gulch.
For the City of Atlanta, there’s nothing more important than affordable housing.
That’s what Richard Cox, the city’s chief operating officer, said at the ground-breaking of “The 1300” – a 47-unit apartment building across from the City of Refuge that will open next summer.
A revised MARTA expansion proposal now includes more light rail than originally envisioned. It leans on other sources of money besides a sales tax to complete those big-dollar projects.
By the end of a roughly 90-minute public meeting at Atlanta City Hall on Wednesday night, two things were getting familiar through repetition: the city’s pitch for up to $1.75 billion in tax incentives for a developer pursuing a Gulch re-do; and opponents saying the people of the city ought to get a lot more out of the deal.
By Maria Saporta It’s a different day at Atlanta’s City Hall. Although it is still early in her administration, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is emerging as a far different kind of executive than her predecessor – Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed. The most notable change is attitude. Bottoms is not the bully that Reed was. […]
Duriya Farooqui, executive director of the Atlanta Committee for Progress, will be leaving at the end of her contract on Dec. 31.
ACP serves as a blue-ribbon cabinet of influential business and civic leaders to advise the mayor of the City of Atlanta. It was founded by former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, and it has remained in place during the Kasim Reed administration and during Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms tenure.
The City of Atlanta has selected John Selden, the deputy commissioner of New York City’s JFK Airport, to be the next general manager of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
Selden was one of the five finalists submitted to Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms by her transition group’s airport general manager search committee, which was co-chaired by Carol Tomé, chief financial officer of the Home Depot Inc.; and Dave Abney, CEO of United Parcel Service Inc.
