Creative Loafing’s Thomas Wheatley does a nice job in this article of laying out the tensions coming into play over the planned redevelopment of Atlanta’s Fort McPherson. The federally recognized authority overseeing the plan is emphasizing a biotech park, while community groups hired former city Planning Commissioner Michael Dobbins, who came up with an alternative…
OK, so the EPA’s wording in a press release may have been unfortunate. The federal agency boasted that it’s providing 21 grants totaling $6.2 million “to recruit, train, and place unemployed, predominantly low-income residents in polluted areas.” What the agency meant to say was that the 21 organizations will use the money to train unemployed…
Highlights from yesterday’s press event on the roof of Ponce City Market (the building formerly known as City Hall East): • Work on the project by Jamestown Properties and its subsidiary, Green Street Properties will start slowly and won’t be evident for some time. The first phase — some 300,000 square feet of restaurants and…
Ponce City Market’s developers had to kick a big energy efficiency question down the road for the time being in order to consummate their recent purchase of the historic building formerly known as City Hall East, the developers said today. That had to be have been a disappointment, especially Green Street Properties, which cut its…
Ponce City Market will hold a coming out party of sorts today on the rooftop of the building formerly known as City Hall East (and before that the Sears building). Late last month, Jamestown Properties quietly completed its long-awaited purchase of the complex and unveiled the new name. But even before Sears built its massive…
Yet another “green cities” ranking project has placed Atlanta near the bottom among large U.S. cities when it comes to sustainability. The “Green Cities Index” — commissioned by Siemens and published by The Economist magazine — ranks Atlanta 21st out of the 27 most populous metro areas in the United States and Canada. The Atlanta…
My dog Peanut and I dropped by the Historic Fourth Ward Park well after Saturday’s official opening ceremony had ended. The temperature still must have been in the 90s, so there weren’t as many people as I’d expected. But the extension of the park south from the spectacular stormwater detention pond that opened last fall…
Interesting video from the American Society of Landscape Architects on repairing neighborhoods that have been affected by transportation infrastructure “to the detriment of their own people.” In a lot of ways, the Beltline could be considered the mother of all such projects. With all the planes, trains and automobiles around these parts, however, it seems…
The National Park Service wants to see City Hall East retain its “imposing” facade over Ponce de Leon Avenue in exchange giving historic tax credits to the developers who want to redevelop the massive building. So reports Bisnow Atlanta’s Jarred Schenke, who’s been on top of this story: [The Park Service's] Guy Lapsley has one…
I checked out the grand opening of D.H. Stanton Park in southeast Atlanta this morning, but didn’t catch too much of the dignitaries speaking. The little guy wanted to spend his time climbing in the playground, getting wet on the “splash pad,” and banging on the xylophones. In other words, he (and I) were impressed…
