Republic Services Charitable Foundation announces $105,000 grant to support critical repairs to locally owned Westside businesses The Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc. (ANDP) has received a grant from the Republic Services Charitable Foundation to support the revitalization of locally owned small businesses disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic. The $105,000 grant is part of Republic Services’ Committed […]

By Shane Totten,  Catherine Butler Gunter, and Lisa Bianchi-Fossati of Southface Institute Part 2 in a three-part series on the Regenerative Economy. Read Part 1 on Regenerative Design. As the American population increased over the last 150 years, the cost of the “take-make-use-dispose” nature of the linear economy was not fully understood or appreciated. The […]

By Alex Heaton, ULI Atlanta Member and Project Manager on the Technical Assistance Panel Project The Fulton County Executive Airport (Airport) occupies 985 acres on the industrial corridor located along Fulton Industrial Boulevard (FIB corridor) and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Bookended by recent and significant investments by companies such as Amazon and UPS, the […]

The forgotten forest long known as Lake Charlotte Nature Preserve stands to become one of  Atlanta’s largest public parks, an archaeological treasure trove, and a model for urban forestland  preservation  The original version of this article was published by Atlanta Magazine on December 30, 2020 and can be found here. By Josh Green One Saturday […]

By: Daphne Bond-Godfrey, Director, ULI Atlanta If knowledge is power, or so the saying goes – then HouseATL’s charge to ‘demystify affordable housing’ has never been more important. In the midst of a global pandemic, there should be no doubt left that safe, stable, and affordable housing is bedrock to our communities. The power of […]

At the December Housing Forum, we were reminded that the Atlanta region is segregated with a history of racist housing policies and practices. As we learned from a mapping presentation from Mike Carnathan of the Atlanta Regional Commission, this isn’t ancient history — “segregation’s role in the systems of metro Atlanta lead us today to […]

By Shane Totten, AIA, BIT Pro  Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the health of Western societies/economies has been measured by their year-over-year growth. Much of that growth has relied on harvesting readily available, cheap materials to produce products for a growing consumer base. Once those products are no longer needed or wanted, consumers […]

We spoke with Dixon about his Atlanta roots, his pivot from tech startups to real estate, his mission to uplift some of Atlanta’s historically disinvested communities, and how he approaches life one day at a time. From a young age, Joel Dixon learned the grass is greener where people water it. The Atlanta native was […]

For many, the events of 2020 have spurred a long-needed national awakening on issues of inequity, injustice, and systemic racism.  One needs to look no further than the history of American housing policy to witness the terrible impacts of systemic racism. How did decades of misbegotten policy, attitudes, and actions create concentrated poverty, cripple transportation […]

By Shannon Lee For the past two decades, The Conservation Fund has protected and enhanced public natural lands here in Atlanta. Like you, we live, work, and play in and around the metro area. Now more than ever, we need time outside to reconnect with nature and recharge our spirits. But we also want to […]