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AT&T to add 600 Jobs In Georgia

AT&T Midtown Atlanta

The telecommunications company, AT&T has announced plans to create nearly 600 jobs in Georgia. AT&T is hiring full- and part-time employees in network construction and maintenance, customer support, retail and other positions. The company plans to begin filling these positions immediately. The announcement did not say WHERE the jobs would be located. AT&T has a [...]

Atlanta to install free WiFi in Piedmont and Grant Parks

Piedmont, Grant Park to get Free WiFi

“For a city this size that’s called itself the most connected city in the Southeast, we want to be the leaders of that,”said Interim Chief Information Officer Michael Dogan. “It’s expected you’ll be able to work, play, and enjoy whenever you are.” Dogan was quoted in an article in Creative Loafing. Atlanta to install free [...]

Midtown Atlanta To Get New Condo Building Seventh

Seventh New Midtown Atlanta Condo Building

Is the condo building vacation about to end in Midtown Atlanta? It would seem so. Coming soon to the corner of Peachtree and 7th Streets is….Seventh. (Hey, nobody said our Atlanta developers were creative in naming buildings….) It will be the first new condo building built in Midtown Atlanta in SEVEN years…. Midtown Atlanta To [...]

Atlanta Streets Alive 2013 on Peachtree Street | Midtown Atlanta Sunday, May 19 2-6pm

Atlanta Streets Alive May 19 2013

Happy Friday one and all! This is a big one for Midtown Atlanta….but even if you don’t LIVE in Midtown, come on out for…. Atlanta Streets Alive on Peachtree Street Sunday, May 19th from 2-6pm,  join your neighbors, family and friends and take to Peachtree Street! Some 2.7 miles, from just shy of the Brookwood [...]

Atlanta Spring Festivals 2013 Guide – May 2013 | Festivals in North Georgia

Helen to the Atlantic Balloon Race

  Atlanta Spring Festival Guide – May 2013 | Festivals in North Georgia Indeed, if you are a festival attendee-type of person, you have got your work cut out for you in May in the Atlanta and North Georgia area. I was reading a couple different magazines to use as a source for this article, [...]

SoNo (South Of North) Midtown Sees Burst of Construction

New Apartments at Ponce and Juniper

An area of Midtown Atlanta that has seen minimal development is SoNo (South of North) But those times, they are a changing! In January, construction (or demolition of existing buildings) started on 131 Ponce de Leon Avenue, a 280 apartment mixed-use project on a 2.5-acre property bounded by Juniper Street, and Ponce de Leon, North and [...]

Midtown Alliance Receives LCI Grant for Transit Station Designs

LCI Grant Awarded to Midtown Alliance for Transit Station enhancements

  Midtown Alliance Receives LCI Grant for Transit Station Designs The Midtown Alliance has received a Living Centers Initiative (LCI) Grant to study and design potential enhancements around transit stations. According to the LCI website from the Atlanta Regional Commission: The Livable Centers Initiative (LCI) is a program that awards planning grants on a competitive [...]

12th & Midtown Adds To It’s Master Plan

1010 Midtown Atlanta Condomiums

After what the real estate market did around the country, and in Atlanta, news of expansion is always a good thing. And when that Atlanta news is in Midtown Atlanta, I say all the better, right? It would appear that 12th & Midtown developers Daniel Corp. and Selig Enterprises Inc. are assembling land to expand their 12th & [...]

Atlanta Chinese New Year Celebration February 9th & 10th

Atlanta Chinese New Year Festival February 9-10 Chamblee GA

The Chinese Lunar New Year falls on February 10th this year.  According to the traditional Chinese zodiac, the new year will be the Year of the Snake, although many Chinese prefer to call it the Year of the “Little Dragon.”  The Chinese New Year celebration–referred to in Chinese as “Spring Festival”–is the most important of [...]

New Property Acquired to Connect the Atlanta BeltLine with Historic Fourth Ward Park // Atlanta BeltLine

Old Fourth Ward Park on the Atlanta Beltline

See on Scoop.it – Other Atlanta News Events ATLANTA, GA. – On the last day of 2012, Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. (ABI) purchased a critical property from The Trust for Public Land that will connect the   Thom Abbott‘s insight: It’s going to take some time, but this entire Beltline concept is EXACTLY what Atlanta should [...]