People and Streets in the News: Mayor Reed and members of the…

[A bioswale, where stormwater runoff collects and is treated naturally. Photo courtesy of Tunnell-Spangler-Walsh .] Cities across the United States have been exploring the benefits of fundament ...

For those Curbed Atlanta readers currently attending or employed by Georgia State University , this will come as encouraging news. As the state's most populous university, you'd think the GSU m ...

Like an oncologist reporting news to a patient, some fresh housing data descended upon Atlanta today. If you're a bad-news-first type of person, here you go: the average sales price for a singl ...

[A rendering of Buckhead Atlanta with Peachtree Road at lower left. Image courtesy of Oliver McMillan.] The end of the saga that was the Streets of Buckhead and is now Buckhead Atlanta will be ...

[A lantern parade led by the Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons will be part of Flux 2011 in Castleberry Hill] Flux Projects, one of the city's biggest supporters and catalysts of public art, will ...

Not sure how we missed this last week, but Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is talking up Underground Atlanta as a potential arts center full of theaters, galleries, businesses and creative spaces. Thi ...

[A container ship at the Port of Savannah, image courtesy of Georgia Department of Economic Development .] The Port of Savannah is blowing up. Behind only Los Angeles and beating stalwarts like ...

Among those weighing in on TSPLOST and the potential addition of more rail to Atlanta's transit infrastructure is former Marietta mayor Bill Dunaway. He makes the salient point that no single p ...

The drumbeat of bad news about the inviability of the U.S. Postal Service's business model gets ever louder. And Georgia will not be immune to the blowback. Looks like postal facilities in Mari ...

The first crisp air of fall is on its way and the timing couldn't be better, as excellent two outdoor events are upon us this weekend. Friday night, the one-night-only arts festival FLUX 2011 w ...

Construction is about to begin on the highly anticipated Atlanta Street Car, and MARTA's got the changed bus routes to prove it! Funded with $47 million from the federal government and $25 mill ...

In more "there's not enough money" news, MARTA chief Beverly Scott is telling the Georgia legislature that they're at least $2.3 billion dollars short in funds needed to maintain Atlanta's ligh ...

Click here to view the full photogallery. The rolling Garden Hills sit in between Peachtree and Piedmont in the heart of Buckhead, and both the location and the leafy streets make it one of the ...

[The Marriott Marquis Atlanta, photo via Portman Holdings .] · HOT lanes' first rush hour Monday [AJC] · Moody’s Lowers U.S. Lodging Industry Outlook as Economy Slows [Bloomberg] · GA 400’s Ham ...

Some of you may recall our story about Carrollton Mayor Wayne Garner's efforts to rid his town of filth by cancelling the local community theater's stage production of The Rocky Horror Picture ...

Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed is arguably one of Atlanta’s most eligible bachelors, but he be headed towards the altar! The 42-year-old political figure often makes appearances at social functions a ...

[The Buckhead skyline at night, photo credit Velvtjnz via Panoramio.] With construction on Buckhead Atlanta (aka The Streets of Buckhead) slated to finally resume in early 2012 and a density-in ...

[Rendering of the proposed design of a new bridge over I-85 in Gwinnett County via the Atlanta Business Chronicle .] A image surfaced today of the proposed design of a striking new bridge to be ...