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After five years at the Georgia World Congress Center, Earn Your Leisure's founders aired their frustration on national radio. The mayor answered from a benefit dinner stage.
MARTA said rerouting the Rapid A line and pausing construction could cost it up to $123,150 — money that would come out of the More MARTA fund if nobody reimburses it.
The tech conference's sixth year runs Aug. 12-13 downtown, and its partner companies have to be hiring in Atlanta or letting staff work here — a condition its founder built in deliberately.
A Georgia Tech assessment found another 1% of land lost its trees between 2018 and 2023, with half of all permitted removals concentrated on just 2% of development sites.
The downtown-headquartered company reported roughly one drink per attendee inside host stadiums, 4.6 million beverages served, and raised its full-year forecast on the back of it.
The contractors who disrupted the taxi business are now organizing against automation, asking City Council for a per-ride fee funding a driver transition fund.
Eighteen months of preparation produced record transit numbers and a Fan Fest nearly as large as stadium attendance — alongside 30 small vendors still seeking compensation.
The standard household charge would climb from $559 to $685 over two years to close a $53 million solid-waste deficit and replace a garbage fleet that is nearly a third past its lifespan.
The Academy for Innovation in Medicine opens with about 200 students on a model that sends graduates out with an associate degree and industry certifications already in hand.
A decade of fighting over how More MARTA sales tax dollars were spent on enhanced bus service ends with $52 million headed back into the program account by 2028.
A Hubble study of 203 U.S. cities put Atlanta first for hybrid-work readiness, citing 41.7 coworking spaces per 100,000 residents and $199 average memberships.
Regional planners say downtown's 92-sign pedestrian wayfinding network held up under World Cup crowds, and the same playbook could reach other Atlanta districts if the city funds it.
Five routes have already been realigned and more than 30 others are getting adjusted timetables, with knock-on effects for MARTA Mobility paratransit service.
At a Midtown roundtable overlooking a gridlocked Spring Street, JPX developer Jarel Portman named a torn-up streetcar network as the Atlanta thing he would most like to bring back.
Riders who leave a car at a MARTA deck overnight will pay more beginning Sept. 14, when the agency's first system-wide parking increase since 2009 takes effect at nine stations.
