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Rough Draft's station-by-station series has reached Downtown — Civic Center, SEC District, Peachtree Center, Five Points and Georgia State, plus North Avenue and Centennial Yards.
The city has folded real-time traffic data, a Citymapper trip planner and downloadable navigation guides into one page — arriving just as school traffic returns and Downtown construction multiplies.
Roughly 75,000 Dragon Con attendees, a sold-out Aflac Kickoff Game and 2.3 million airport passengers land on Downtown in the same five days. Here is where the trains stop and what is still closed at Five Points.
A photo booth, a variety show and a local market drew lunchtime crowds to Broad Street to kick off the school year.
With the World Cup crowds gone, South Downtown Atlanta is reminding visitors about a standing perk: two free hours across 315 street parking spots on four blocks near Mitchell, Forsyth, and Nelson.
Thirty years after the Olympics, the Ambassador Force lines up again on the same escalator, minus the pith hats.
793 beds across 305 units are going up at 850 West End Ave. after AUC enrollment grew about 25% in five years, adding roughly 1,100 students to the campuses.
New renderings for the 8.5-acre linear park running from the Downtown Connector to Oakland Cemetery lean on Atlanta's tree canopy — and on what neighbors asked for at a June open house.
The Lucian Books + Wine team's second restaurant brings a bookstore, a raw bar and 230 wines to North Angier Avenue, with a storefront visible from the Eastside Beltline.
Blue Meridian Partners and the Blank Family Foundation would fund workforce development, early childhood education and affordable housing, contingent on the city matching them dollar for dollar.
A Morehouse graduate who grew up on the New York subway spent a summer riding from Ashby to Midtown — and argues Atlanta's global ambitions run through a system it undervalues.
Chef Anish Nair's modern Indian restaurant is the fifth to open at the Spring and 10th development, and property reps say the retail space is now fully leased.
Residential permits fell more than 18% in a year, and ARC's research chief says the affordability that once pulled people to Atlanta no longer does the same work.
Five-minute headways, ambassadors at every portal and English fans comparing it to the Tube — then a date-night ride with no police, broken tap-and-pay and trains off schedule.
After five years at the Georgia World Congress Center, Earn Your Leisure's founders aired their frustration on national radio. The mayor answered from a benefit dinner stage.
