By Livable Buckhead and Buckhead Business Association In a year defined by the global coronavirus pandemic, businesses and their employees faced countless challenges that tested their creativity, adaptability and resilience. Two Buckhead organizations – Buckhead Business Association and Livable Buckhead – recently honored local businesses that exemplified those qualities in 2020. On April 15, Livable […]

Ansley Whipple, Woodruff Park Project Manager, Atlanta Downtown Improvement District The Atlanta Downtown Improvement District (ADID) is embracing the spring season with the return of free community programs to Woodruff Park, plus the announcement of forthcoming capital improvements to Downtown’s central greenspace, supported by a Legacy Grant from Park Pride. On weekdays from 11:00 a.m. […]

By Shoccara Marcus, Artist-in Residence at Cousins Properties’ Promenade I describe myself as a dancer first, and a photographer second. I fulfill love of both crafts with dance photography. I get a joy out of putting dancers in different environments and creating a dialogue with the line, shape, and form of the body in relation […]

By Jim Durrett, President of Buckhead Coalition and Executive Director of Buckhead Community Improvement District By now you have heard about an effort among some in Buckhead to divorce from the City of Atlanta and incorporate as its own city within Fulton County. This is not the first time that the idea has been pursued, […]

By A.J. Robinson The news of Henry Aaron’s passing in January hit me like a hard foul ball into the stands along the first base line. Like so many boomers of the 50’s and 60’s living in the South, I grew up listening to the Braves on the radio. Back then, the “Hammer” was the […]

By Marcus Neville, Director of Public Safety and Operations, Midtown Alliance When the Midtown Improvement District was formed 21 years ago, the first imperative was for people to feel safe. At the time, Midtown was pretty disinvested, vice and prostitution were active and not a lot of positive things were happening after dark. We stood […]

Wilma Sothern, CAP/ADID Vice President of Marketing  While CAP/ADID’s work has not slowed or decreased during the pandemic, we have certainly noticed and adjusted to the absence of our usual slate of events and programs. Gone were our in-person Town Hall meetings, complete with pre-function networking and coffee. Paused were our jazz concerts and movie […]

By Denise Starling, Executive Director of Livable Buckhead  In a pandemic year when so much was unsettled in our world, asking people to share their perceptions about life in Buckhead was a risky proposition. More than once during the process of developing the 2020 State of Buckhead survey I was reminded of a golden rule […]

By Ellie Hensley, Midtown Alliance Editor and Producer After a long year of isolation and social distancing, pandemic recovery is just beginning to pick up some momentum. With the combination of spring weather and the steadily increasing availability of vaccines, it’s feeling more and more like we could be entering the late stages of this […]

By Denise Starling, Executive Director of Livable Buckhead, and Katie Gable, Program Manager for Mobility Services of Livable Buckhead The COVID-19 pandemic led to more people working from home than ever before, triggering an interruption in professional and personal routines that has continued well into 2021. With a national rollout of vaccines underway, companies are […]