After hearing about 70 speakers support or oppose nuclear power and the completion of the half-finished Bellefonte Nuclear Plant, the TVA board voted unanimously on Thursday to restart construction. The nine-member Tennessee Valley Authority board also authorized paying for Bellefonte’s completion by selling the nearly complete Watts Bar Unit 2 nuclear reactor in Rhea County…
Backed by Texas-based USAA Real Estate, JLB Partners will build 373 residential units on Pharr Road that it’s dubbed Buckhead Village. The 345,224-square-foot, four- and five-story project will go for LEED certification, the developers announced yesterday. More on the project here.
Supporters of the regional transportation sales taxes proposed in metro Atlanta and across the state aren’t wasting any time gearing up for their campaign in favor of the vote. Now that “executive committees” in all of Georgia’s 12 planning regions have recommended project lists to their transportation roundtables under the state’s Transportation Investment Act, sales…
In addition to revealing that Bacchanalia chef-owner Anne Quatrano plans to open a po-boy shop at Ponce City Market, this week’s New York Times profile of the property formerly known as City Hall East offered a few other fresh details. Jamestown Properties’ Michael Phillips apparently shared plans with Robbie Brown, the Atlanta-based NYT writer, that…
Mayor Kasim Reed dubbed as “transformative” the $6.14 billion list of road and transit projects approved Monday by the Atlanta Regional Transportation Roundtable’s Executive Committee. If voters eventually approve a sales tax to fund the projects (or some semblance of them), that transformation will be most evident along three transit corridors. Other transit projects didn’t…
A key panel of elected officials determined just how far metro Atlanta politicians could get in supporting transit today, before they finally voted to recommend the region’s $6.14 billion transportation project list. Now, the big question is whether a larger group of elected officials — the Atlanta Regional Transportation Roundtable, which is weighted against the interests…
More to come, but the Executive Committee of Atlanta Regional Transportation Roundtable just approved a list of transportation projects fairly evenly split between roads and transit. While elected officials congratulated each other on the 5-0 vote, it remains to be seen whether the $6.14 billion in projects gains approval next year from voters in the…
The Atlanta Regional Transportation Roundtable unanimously approved a request just a few minutes ago to extend a proposed regional sales tax for transportation to its full 10 years. The change could squeeze a bit more money out of the tax because the law allowing the tax currently requires it to sunset before 10 years are…
Here’s a concept with enormous implications for indoor air quality — especially in hospitals: Design buildings to attract microbes that are good for us and to discourage microbes that are bad for us. Engineer and ecologist Jessica Green promoted the approach earlier this month at TEDGlobal, the prestigious speaking series. Her research at the University…
As governments around the world are scaling back support for renewable energy, venture capitalists are shifting their clean technology investment strategy. They’re focusing less on high-risk technologies and more on ideas that could have a faster payoff but a smaller impact, such as technologies for improving energy efficiency. The shift is raising concerns about how…
