Raquel Nelson’s ordeal has become a cause since I wrote about it here on Thursday. In that time, national petition sites have gathered thousands of signatures asking that the Cobb County mother — convicted of vehicular homicide and reckless conduct in connection with her four-year-old son’s traffic death — is treated with leniency during her sentencing…
Suzanne Burnes, a veteran environmental program manager, will become the new leader of Sustainable Atlanta on June 1. The nonprofit — formed in 2007 to partner with the city of Atlanta on environmental policies and programs — has been without an executive director since its founding executive director Lynnette Young left last December. Burnes brings a…
Atlanta’s first LEED Silver apartment is complete and has pre-leased half its 333 units, Jarred Schenke reports in today’s Bisnow Atlanta newsletter. You may have noticed this complex across Bill Kennedy Way from the Glenwood Park eco-village just south of I-20. More (with permission) from Bisnow: The $45M project (with loans from both Regions and Signature banks) was…
Those who know Georgia Tech architecture professor Ellen Dunham-Jones know that she’s a cheerful and at the same time thoughtful advocate for retrofitting sprawl in sunbelt metro areas — as the metro area where Dunham-Jones now lives. Retrofitting Suburbia, the 2009 book Dunham-Jones co-wrote with June Williamson of City College of New York, is now…
Less than two days before the city of Atlanta must submit its official wish list of transportation projects to a special metro-wide panel, Atlanta Beltline Inc. holds the last in series of public planning meetings tonight designed to help come up with that wish list. The Beltline’s Westside Study Group, which is open to the…
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…
I’m Not So Fed Up with the brand known as Sarah Susanka. But I’m pretty darned close. Susanka, as you no doubt know, is an architect-turned-writer-turned-motivational-speaker — the author of the “Not So Big House” book series. She was a “master speaker” earlier this week at the Greenprints Conference and Tradeshow in Atlanta. It was…
Midtown real estate investors ought to be delighted — or at least intrigued — by the Atlanta Beltline’s new strategy to get taxpayer funding for certain segments of the project. Of course, some property owners are likely to end up more delighted than others. Let’s put it this way: If I owned commercial property on,…
