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New Atlanta Regional Commission estimates put the city at 549,615 residents, finally clearing the 497,000 peak it set in the 1970s and never matched until now.
The 3,010-square-foot burger stand at 85 Centennial Olympic Park Drive NW runs until midnight most nights and 1 a.m. on weekends, with $1 per sandwich going to Camp Twin Lakes on opening day.
Two of the biggest mixed-use projects ringing downtown just landed their restaurant anchors, one in a 1928 Midtown landmark and one at the base of Mailchimp's Old Fourth Ward headquarters.
Nine years after it won its first grant, the 15th Street extension is finally due to open, threading two new blocks from West Peachtree over to Spring and Williams streets.
The 17-story tower at Peachtree and Memorial is the subject of a widening gap between Fulton County and City Hall, with a lease expiring in December and no deal in sight.
Three finalists are up for the permanent MARTA job, and whoever lands it inherits the CQ400 railcar delays, the faregate mess and a rail map that stopped growing in 2000.
After a decade of planning and two years of construction, the 15th Street extension is set to open by the end of August, adding a rare new connection to Midtown's street grid.
The transit agency that moves most downtown workers and visitors is about to get its first permanent chief since August 2025, with a board vote set for Aug. 13.
Trademark Property Company now runs retail and operations across the 138-acre district, and it is bringing back a former general manager and surveying the community before making changes.
Georgia's high school football season opens downtown Wednesday, with Grayson and North Gwinnett headlining an 8 p.m. game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium and more dates running through Aug. 21.
Nearly 40 hand-built wooden covers have gone down over missing water meter lids across Atlanta since April, and the city's Watershed department wants them gone.
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.
