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Atlanta's 34 days of World Cup hosting are shaping up as a rhythm of crescendos rather than one big bang — and downtown is the stage for all of it.
Eighty-four percent of readers polled before the first match doubted the system was ready; a month of data says the doubters lost this one.
Thirty-five frames document the biggest night this district has staged since 1996, from Centennial Olympic Park to the last chorus at Centennial Yards.
The tournament's final weekend stacked a free Piedmont Park festival on top of two arena tours, a Braves homestand and a documentary about how 1996 happened.
Atlanta's tournament run ended with a sold-out semifinal, an Underground Atlanta takeover in sky blue, and a British ambassador handing out compliments.
For two days the city parked its 2.7-mile loop and handed the blocks around Mercedes-Benz Stadium to people on foot.
Atlanta United's partner-pub network reaches from Doraville to Virginia-Highland, but the rooms that filled first sat within walking distance of the stadium.
The stadium on Northside Drive did not fall into FIFA's lap; it was designed, funded and filled for exactly this moment years before the bid was won.
A federal emergency approval is sending a pair of young males from Niagara Falls to Pemberton Place, and downtown's biggest attraction is making room.
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 James Beard Foundation is shopping for a host city through 2033, and the one organization positioned to bid for Atlanta has already said no.
Downtown is finally getting the thing it has been conspicuously missing: a bookstore you can sit down in.
Downtown's museum for the under-10 crowd is giving families two more weeks and a free souvenir ball before its most-loved contraption goes dark.
Twenty-five years of talk about a linear park between Oakland Cemetery and the Connector finally has pictures attached.
