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Architect Tom Ventulett III, whose firm TVS shaped the Georgia World Congress Center and the Omni, has died.
Salvation South editor Chuck Reece looks back on working at Centennial Olympic Park through the 1996 Atlanta Games.
The Georgia World Congress Center Authority wants to move the 1996 cauldron to Centennial Olympic Park. The mayor says a city's greatest moments should belong to its people first.
After 25 years empty and a quarter-million dollars of structural work, the Rufus M. Rose House is for sale between the Fox Theatre and the first phase of The Stitch.
The Fox's partially covered terrace above the Peachtree Street entrance is now a fully enclosed lounge, giving Marquee Club members a second indoor bar on show nights.
Opened in 1956 and nearly lost during Covid, Manuel's Tavern was saved by a GoFundMe that raised $187,000 — and it still refuses to play music, on purpose.
A communications executive who worked at Ground Zero of the 1996 Games recounts the rooftop briefings, the ambush marketing and the hospitality-tent improvisation that defined downtown that July.
A street railway chartered by the Georgia legislature just one year after the Civil War went nowhere until two businessmen picked up the dormant paperwork and laid actual track.
The 1901 Rufus M. Rose House at 537 Peachtree St. is listed at $2.58 million after a $250,000 structural repair push and four separate revival plans that never got off the ground.
Thirty years after the flame was lit, Georgians who lived the 1996 Games say the moments that stuck were never the medals — they were the chance encounters that rerouted whole lives.
As the World Cup rolled out of town, the city paused to remember the summer that first put Atlanta on the world stage 30 years ago.
Atlanta Magazine tracked down the bid team behind the least likely win in modern Olympic history, and found a group that never really stopped.
Thirty years after Muhammad Ali lit it, a proposed move downtown has turned the cauldron into a neighborhood standoff.
The Olympics did not just leave Atlanta a park and a stadium; it left the city a working method for saying yes to things it had no business hosting.
The Auburn Avenue house where Dr. King spent his first twelve years reopened on the Fourth of July with its structure secured and its storytelling upgraded.
