Thirty years after the torch: how 1996 built the downtown Atlanta that keeps landing the big game
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.
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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.
Downtown's oldest entertainment district is answering the World Cup's biggest week with live bands, a futsal pitch and a fan march to the stadium.
One month, one metro, nearly forty new restaurants — and the map shows the center of gravity sitting squarely inside the Connector.
After 14 years of quarters, cabinets, and cocktails, one of Edgewood Avenue's defining bars has hit the continue screen.
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.
From a South Downtown soccer bar to suburban patios stocking Quilmes, the tournament's cash-register effect reached far beyond the stadium gates.
South Downtown and Centennial Yards dominate a list where the farthest walk from the stadium gates is still under 20 minutes.
College football's oldest on-campus stadium is getting chairbacks, a speakeasy, and a massive videoboard — without touching its 1913 bones.
Before the stadium had a name, some of these kitchens were already feeding the neighborhood — one since 1947.
Metro Atlanta led the nation in self-storage construction last year — and City Hall just decided prime land deserves better tenants.
A first-person dispatch from Centennial Olympic Park captured what the tournament actually felt like at ground level — and who really showed up.
Across from City Hall, a 10-story project is going vertical with every one of its 218 apartments priced below market rate.
Skip the chains near the arena — the places downtown regulars actually line up for run from a 1918 market hall to a revolving rooftop.
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.
The grocery experiment inside downtown's Olympia Building has performed well enough that the city-backed model is getting a sequel across town.