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A transportation planner stood on the trail with a hand-lettered sign for two days in late July, and the 193 answers he collected show a Beltline public that agrees on very little.
The hole left behind by the collapsed No. 2 Opus Place tower is now sod and walking paths, and Midtown Alliance plans food trucks, markets and fitness on it starting next month.
A graffiti-covered wedge of masonry at 1075 Boulevard SE, bought for $202,500 two years ago, has city approval to reopen as two-tenant retail with patios on both floors.
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 four-day birthday party at Manuel's, a citywide restaurant week worth planning around, a Summerhill potluck and a 16-year Buckhead closure headline the week in Atlanta dining.
A three-year archival project built inside Cleaver's own home is now on the walls of the Auburn Avenue Research Library, where it stays open to the public through Jan. 4, 2027.
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 Kilpatrick Townsend partner who watches the abandoned Campanile site from his office window says the city could seize it and reroute Peachtree traffic to make room for a walking street.
A 13-0 council vote funds a citywide inventory of every gravel and dirt street, alongside tens of millions in pump station and wastewater repairs approved the same night.
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.
Free Aug. 8 event at Monday Night Garage puts Invest Atlanta, Atlanta Housing, Habitat and the Beltline's new down payment assistance program under one roof.
SoDo ATL says the building blitz is over for now: 26 renovated apartments at 85 Peachtree and nine empty Broad Street storefronts are the next test of whether the district becomes a real neighborhood.
Two years of work on Northside Drive have produced 201 apartments, 171 of them income-restricted, with move-ins underway and rents opening at $1,100 a month.
With the World Cup crowds gone, Atlanta Ventures' 58-building historic district is filling storefronts on Mitchell, Broad and Hotel Row, and 14 retail suites are still open.
More than 30 restaurants opened across metro Atlanta in July, and the downtown share was small but pointed: an Asian food hall in Castleberry Hill and a soul food room in South Downtown.
