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MARTA sets redevelopment sights on westernmost train station 22 acres around H.E. Holmes transit hub targeted for “diverse” development, repurposing   GALLERY3 Amid talk of MARTA’s tax-funded budget shortcomings for new transit options, and questions surrounding a planned $230-million, MARTA-led expansion of the Atlanta Streetcar system, the transit agency continues to move forward with efforts to convert underused property around… Read more »

Pearl Harbor Sailor from Georgia to be Buried in Arlington National Cemetery How many Sailors have been identified from the USS Oklahoma disinterment?  Prior to the 2015 disinterment, which marked the beginning of Project Oklahoma, 388 service members were unaccounted for. Since then, 355 have been individually identified.  Who makes identifications, and how?  Scientists at… Read more »

ChatGPT Is Already Affecting How Real Estate Business Is Done ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence system that provides answers in sentences rather than search results, has seemingly been sweeping across society at breakneck speed since it launched in November. Now its sweep is being felt in commercial real estate. Pixabay/geralt Developed by pseudo-nonprofit OpenAI, ChatGPT has already found… Read more »

Courtesy of Amazon Amazon’s former Vice President of Global Real Estate and Facilities John Schoettler speaking at a fundraising event for Seattle nonprofit Mary’s Place in 2018. Amazon has tapped a Harvard-educated designer with experience in drafting municipal land use policies as its new vice president of worldwide corporate real estate and facilities. Amazon named Shannon Loew… Read more »

Hartsfield-Jackson Celebrates T-North Extension Opening In time for the heavy holiday travel season, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) officially opened its Concourse T-North Extension at a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday. “Adding (the T North extension) to our infrastructure simply strengthens our position as a global gateway,” Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, said. “And so the extension will… Read more »

Local Nonprofit Raises More than $460K to help Underserved Students Staff Report Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 Breakthrough Atlanta raised more than $460K at its seventh annual—and record-breaking— Fund-A-Scholar event. Funds raised surpassed any previous year’s event and exceeded last year’s total by nearly 20%. Nearly 500 people came together at The Foundry at Puritan Mall… Read more »

Skanska with Joint Venture Delivers New Concourse T Gates at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Staff Report Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 The joint venture led by global construction and development firm Skanska, along with New South Construction, FS360 and Synergy Construction, announces the delivery of the first phase of a project at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport… Read more »

New State Program Launches to Support Georgia’s Veterans Staff Report Thursday, November 10th, 2022 The Georgia Department of Veterans Service (GDVS), the state agency dedicated to advising, counseling, and assisting veterans and their families in receiving their rightful benefits, and Unite Us, the nation’s leading technology company connecting health and social care, are partnering to… Read more »

City of Atlanta Receives $45 Million Federal Allocation for Community Investment Staff Report Thursday, November 10th, 2022 Mayor Andre Dickens announced that Invest Atlanta—through Atlanta Emerging Markets Inc. (AEMI)—has received a $45 million New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) allocation from the U.S. Department of the Treasury. This investment will be used for economic development projects… Read more »

Morehouse College Partners with Information Technology Industry Council to Launch New Center Aiming to Diversify the Global Tech Industry Workforce Morehouse College, the nation’s only historically Black liberal arts institution dedicated to educating and developing men, and the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), a global technology trade association representing 80 of the world’s most innovative companies,… Read more »