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Construction, openings, investment, and physical transformation of Atlanta's city center.
Bloomberg goes inside the rare coalition of financiers, entertainers and Black business leaders betting $5 billion that Centennial Yards can finally fill the hole at the center of Atlanta.
The fan fest drew 536,000, MARTA moved 4.7 million riders and downtown properties filled up — but hotels and street vendors found Atlanta's World Cup month tougher going.
A new Beltline Mortgage Assistance Program from Atlanta Beltline and Invest Atlanta offers up to $30,000 toward homeownership for legacy residents and public servants.
Fulton County commissioners voted 4-1 against joining Atlanta's 30-year tax allocation district extension, a setback for the funding engine behind Mayor Dickens' Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative.
Twenty-five years of talk about a linear park between Oakland Cemetery and the Connector finally has pictures attached.
Nearly half of next year's Beltline spending goes straight into finishing the 22-mile mainline loop.
A 16.5-acre pitch would drop a hydraulic 200-meter oval, a STEM center and a new headquarters onto land Atlanta Public Schools has held since the Centennial Games.
A 1941 Art Deco service station that sat fenced off for a decade is being rebuilt as a two-level shell, and it is on the market for $2.25 million.
Six months of demolition have erased the university's first purpose-built building, and Gilmer Street is going pedestrian-only in its place.
An empty block along the streetcar line is finishing its turn into 109 apartments and street-level retail, with the old Atlanta Life Insurance Building folded back into use.
A 12-story, roughly 280-unit proposal beside the rail corridor would push the district past 800 apartments and finally put income-restricted units on the board.
Metro Atlanta led the nation in self-storage construction last year — and City Hall just decided prime land deserves better tenants.
Across from City Hall, a 10-story project is going vertical with every one of its 218 apartments priced below market rate.
The studios where CNN once broadcast to the world are about to get a tea party, a rabbit hole, and room for a thousand guests at a time.
Fourteen more small businesses are landing in downtown storefronts at once, and the common thread is a $1.5 million fund most people have never heard of.
