Business leaders tell Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens they stand ready to help the city navigate its recent hardships.
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Atlanta Council committee hits “pause” on tighter flood-control rule
An environmental update is going forward minus an attention-getting paragraph.
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Storm brewing over Atlanta’s draft flood-control rules
New draft rules set off enviros, developers.
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Trees in Peachtree Hills on chopping block while developer gets easement through park
Hundreds and hundreds of trees will be cut down in the Peachtree Hills community as a result of two developments currently being proposed.
Ashton Woods – an ironic name for the developer – is planning to clear cut a 4-acre parcel next to Peachtree Hills Park – removing a total of 148 trees.
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Green infrastructure plan can link Atlanta’s HBCUs with Westside communities
Westside Atlanta represents the rise and fall and the impending revival of a community.
The historic core of the community is the Atlanta University Center, a consortium of historically-black colleges and universities. The consortium of the black colleges began in 1929.
“We were in the business of aspirations and dreams,” said Mary Schmidt Campbell, president of Spelman College.
