PodPonics, an Atlanta produce-growing startup, has just signed a lease with the Atlanta Development Authority to move into more spacious digs in the Southside Industrial Park. Well, “digs” may not be the right word, because PodPonics — which currently is located on Ponce de Leon Avenue — apparently needs little more than a bit space…
Porsche made official on Thursday the scoop we’d picked up from Bisnow Atlanta a couple of days earlier: The German sports car maker is moving its North American headquarters from Sandy Springs to Jacoby Development’s new Aerotropolis Atlanta project. Now that the move’s been announced, what interests me is the setting and the architecture. Remember passing…
The Atlanta Beltline will re-open a small, under-used park in southeast Atlanta on Saturday with unique bragging rights: It’s the first metro Atlanta park and one of only a handful in the country that will generate from clean energy sources as much electricity as it uses. “D.H. Stanton Park will serve as a best-in-class model…
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is on track to attain LEED Silver certification for its huge new Maynard H. Jackson International Terminal, airport officials say. The green building certification would be the first for a terminal at the world’s busiest airport, although one small airport fire station has been granted LEED while another is expecting to…
Heery International, the big Atlanta-based architecture and engineering firm, reports that the renovation of its 58,000-square-foot office received LEED Gold certification. The office is located in Midtown Atlanta’s 999 Peachtree Street building. Some of the sustainable features include low VOC (volatile organic compound) materials that contain as much recycled content as possible. Designers specified that…
Atlanta’s City Hall East still seems to be under some sort of slow-motion voodoo spell. Katharine Kelley, one of the project’s lead developers, told a real estate audience March 3 that she hoped to close the deal to buy the giant building and the block of land surrounding it from the city within 30 days. But…
Ken Benfield, a prominent smart growth advocate who blogs for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, is Emory U. graduate. Who knew? With permission, we’re republishing his post from earlier this week on his alma mater. It’s the most complete rundown on Emory’s impressive sustainability efforts that I’ve seen. I can’t claim to have…
Until yesterday, the last time I saw Vance Smith Jr. was during the 1996 state legislative session. He was a junior state representative from west Georgia, and the state Department of Transportation was talking about a “multimodal passenger terminal” in downtown Atlanta. Today, Smith is Georgia’s transportation commissioner — perhaps the most powerful un-elected public…
Portugese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura famously once said: There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture, no fascist architecture, no sustainable architecture – there is only good and bad architecture. That shouldn’t be taken to mean that Souto de Moura — who today learned that he’s this year’s winner of architecture’s highest award, the…
An abandoned Ford assembly plant site near Atlanta’s airport could soon become the largest clean energy producer — by far — in the state of Georgia. With a capacity of up to 10 megawatts, the arrays would generate nearly 10 times the amount of electricity of any other solar project planned in the state —…
