The former Atlanta Medical Center is brimming with activity as demolition crews take the first steps to tear down the hospital and put a 22-acre mixed-use campus in its place. The hospital has been closed since 2022, when Wellstar suddenly shut the trauma center’s doors to the public. It sat empty until October 2024, when […]
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Integral’s Egbert Perry on Wellstar project: ‘We see this as re-knitting a part of the city’
Integral executives speak exclusively with SaportaReport about their plans to redevelop the Atlanta Medical Center site.
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Wellstar and Atlanta moving forward on redeveloping Atlanta Medical Center site
Wellstar Health System announced Thursday morning that it is partnering with the Integral Group to redevelop the former hospital site on Boulevard with the spirit of implementing the land-use plan that was approved last month by the Atlanta City Council.
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Mixed-use project would take entire block on Edgewood, keep historic buildings
A massive mixed-use project in the Old Fourth Ward would remake an entire block of Edgewood Avenue, but keep the historic buildings that house the Thumbs Up Diner and the Ammazza pizza restaurant.
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Accessory dwelling unit would be 15 inches from property line in Old Fourth Ward
Owners who in 2019 paid $575,000 for a house in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood have asked the city to allow construction of a two-story accessory dwelling unit 15 inches from the property line. The current setback is 20 feet.
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O4W task force enlists Yang in conversation on guaranteed basic income
The idea was supported by the neighborhood’s most famous son, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Ponce City Market’s proposed expansion promises new residences at “accessible price points”
Old Fourth Ward’s mixed-use mammoth Ponce City Market is bound for a major expansion, including more than 400 new residences that are supposed to have “accessible price points.”
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Developer property tax breaks in hot Atlanta neighborhoods raising questions
Atlanta and Fulton may be winning valuable jobs and investments via property tax discounts to developers; or they may be giving away something they don’t have to.
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Four decades of the Old Fourth Ward, seen from my office window
By Guest Columnist WILLIAM VANDERKLOOT, a film director/producer with a unique insight into Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood.
A few years ago Google announced it would archive older images from its Google Maps StreetView program to create a StreetView History section for various cities. StreetView is less than 10 years old, but decades from now it will be a local historian’s delight. I only wish we had StreetView back when I moved my company to the Old Fourth Ward in 1979.
Like the proverbial frog submersed in slowly heating water, familiarity with our immediate surroundings makes us oblivious to incremental change. That is until one day we suddenly realize almost everything is different. That happened to me regarding my studio in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood.
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Loose on the Beltline by Kelly Jordan
This week’s theme is “Loose on the Beltline”
