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MARTA said rerouting the Rapid A line and pausing construction could cost it up to $123,150 — money that would come out of the More MARTA fund if nobody reimburses it.
The tech conference's sixth year runs Aug. 12-13 downtown, and its partner companies have to be hiring in Atlanta or letting staff work here — a condition its founder built in deliberately.
A Georgia Tech assessment found another 1% of land lost its trees between 2018 and 2023, with half of all permitted removals concentrated on just 2% of development sites.
The downtown-headquartered company reported roughly one drink per attendee inside host stadiums, 4.6 million beverages served, and raised its full-year forecast on the back of it.
Barbara McKenzie shot the neighborhood at the exact hinge point in its history. Fifty years later, 25 of more than 700 images go on public view at the Cabbagetown Community Center.
The contractors who disrupted the taxi business are now organizing against automation, asking City Council for a per-ride fee funding a driver transition fund.
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.
One signal faces directly into a ground-floor apartment at the Swift & Co. Lofts, and preservation advocates say they were never consulted despite a federal easement on the building.
A discontinued 1969 Italian aperitif survives in exactly three places on earth, and one of them is the tasting room on the top floor of the World of Coca-Cola.
Eighteen months of preparation produced record transit numbers and a Fan Fest nearly as large as stadium attendance — alongside 30 small vendors still seeking compensation.
The standard household charge would climb from $559 to $685 over two years to close a $53 million solid-waste deficit and replace a garbage fleet that is nearly a third past its lifespan.
The county says its number reflects $75 million in needed renovations; the mayor had asked $80 million. The offer expired Aug. 31 and the lease runs out at year's end.
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 mayor's office is asking City Council for a special-called meeting on resolutions covering homes in Vine City and English Avenue plus a former gas station near Bowen Homes.
The 336-unit tower on Centennial Olympic Park Drive set the record for downtown's priciest apartment sale in 2021; last week it changed hands at a foreclosure auction.
