Tag: Midtown
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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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Photo Pick: Before & After 75 12th Street, 1010 Midtown by RENTCafe.com
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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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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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Atlanta provides NCR $3.2 million for Midtown move; terms unavailable
By David Pendered
Atlanta has provided a $3.2 million grant to NCR to help fund its relocation to Midtown. Terms were not available.
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Midtown DRC approves two projects along West Peachtree Street
Two mixed-use residential developments in Midtown are moving forward following their approval Tuesday by the Midtown Development Review Committee.
Both projects are on West Peachtree Street and within a few blocks of each other. Both continue an uptick in construction this year that Midtown Alliance has highlighted.
Urban Realty Partners won approval from the DRC to convert the old John Hancock Life Insurance office building at 1330 West Peachtree, which the Arthritis Foundation bought and renovated, into homes, shops and restaurants. The Hanover Co. also won approval for a six-story mixed-use project at 1010 West Peachtree.
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MARTA to open bids today for land in Midtown, Stone Mountain Village
MARTA officials today are slated to open bids for land MARTA intends to sell near the Arts Center Station in Midtown, and an additional property in Stone Mountain.
The minimum prices set by MARTA indicate that a sliver of land in Midtown is significantly more valuable than a parcel in Stone Mountain.
The Midtown site is barely more than a tenth the size of the one in Stone Mountain. The minimum price for this tract is set at about 75 percent of the Stone Mountain parcel, according to bid documents.
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Weekly potluck dinner turns Atlanta friends into family
The bonds of family and friendship can be created through the sacrament of a regular shared mealtime, and it doesn’t have to be as seldom or elaborate as the big Thanksgiving event many of us will travel thousands of miles to celebrate this Thursday.
For several years, Owen Mathews has hosted what he calls Potluck Dinner every week at his Midtown studio. It has grown into a broad range of young to early-middle aged professionals of assorted ethnic backgrounds and experiences.
“It’s almost like we have family dinner once a week,” said Sara Le Meitour, who is engaged to another potluck regular.
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Column: Subie Green to retire from Center for Visually Impaired nonprofit
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Friday, February 15, 2013
Subie Green, one of Atlanta’s most respected nonprofit executives, is retiring as president of the Center for the Visually Impaired at the end of June.
“It’s really time, but it was a hard, hard decision because I have loved this job so much,” said Green, who has been CVI’s top executive since May 2001.
During her tenure as president, Green oversaw an $8 million capital campaign to buy and renovate a new Midtown home for the organization that serves people who are blind or with significant visual disabilities.
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’56 Up’ – Michael Apted revisits his cinematic beginnings with the same group of people every seven years
You may know Michael Apted as the prize-winning director of “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “The World is Not Enough,” “The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader” and dozens of other movies.
However, the work that has secured him a unique place in cinematic history began over 50 years ago when he was working for Granada Television.
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Crum & Forster building – Court order preserves a third, rest to be razed
The front third of the Crum & Forster building in Midtown will be saved, and the rest of the building razed, according to a consent order signed Tuesday by Fulton Superior Court Judge John Goger.
These terms were reached Tuesday in an amended consent order negotiated by lawyers for the Georgia Tech Foundation and two defendants – the city of Atlanta and its Board of Zoning Appeals. The ruling appears to end a preservation battle that has raged since GTF filed a request for a demolition permit in April 2008.
Goger denied a motion to allow five interveners in the case, a ruling that affirmed a comment from a lawyer for the city who said all concerns of the proposed interveners were resolved by the consent agreement.
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Unfortunately, we’re easily reminded that crises occur daily
Watching Good Morning America Monday morning while I got ready for work, I was captivated by the recent tunnel collapse in Japan. I sat with half-blow-dried hair and watched George Stephanopoulos report on the tragic scene. Nine people – eight of them burned – were pulled from vehicles crushed in the collapse 50 miles from Tokyo. An […]
