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Meetings
The Midtown Alliance 2016 Annual Meeting will be Feb. 24 at the Fox Theatre.
Networking will begin at 7 a.m. and the meeting will run from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Keynote
speaker Fred Kent, founder and president of Project for Public Spaces, will offer a closer
look at the potential for public spaces in Midtown to create more of the energy that
drives both commerce and community at street
level. Kent has taken more than half a million
photographs of public spaces and their users,
which have appeared worldwide in exhibits
and publications. For more information, visit
midtownatl.com.
The Atlanta City Council will meet in full
session on Feb. 1 and Feb. 15 at 1 p.m. at City
Hall, 55 Trinity Ave. For agendas and more
information, visit citycouncil.atlantaga.gov.
The Decatur City Commission meets in
open session on the first and third Mondays of
each month at City Hall, 509 North McDonough Street, at 7:30 p.m.
Community meetings,
news & events
Neighborhood Planning Unit-M, which covers the Old Fourth Ward, meets
Feb. 22 at 6:15 p.m. at Helene Mills Center, 515 John Wesley Dobbs Ave. For further
information, visit npumatlanta.org.
News
The Georgia
Building Authority
plans to raze the
former Georgia
Archives building—
the windowless
structure that
resembles a concrete
block overlooking
the Downtown
Connector— and
replace it with a new
judicial complex,
according to a
report from Atlanta magazine. The project is projected to cost north of $110 million,
which could make it the most expensive project ever for the state government. Gov.
Nathan Deal has put $7.3 million into the state budget for the building’s design and
site preparations. Two firms - Atlanta based Stevens & Wilkinson and New York-based
Robert A. M. Stern - have been selected as architects for the new complex.
Ryan Gravel, who first conceived of the Atlanta BeltLine, has
joined the city to guide the Atlanta City Design Project. This
new project, under the direction of the Department of Planning
and Community Development, will envision what Atlanta should
look like decades from now, as well as guide future decisions
on the growth and development of the city. Gravel is an urban
planner best known for his 1999 Georgia Institute of Technology
master’s thesis, which was the catalyst for the Atlanta BeltLine.
Since then, he has remained involved in its implementation and
currently serves on the Atlanta BeltLine Partnership board of
directors. Gravel now consults with communities on planning
and design for investments in infrastructure through his company, Sixpitch.
Dr. Eloisa Klementich, CEcD, has been named as the new president and CEO of
Invest Atlanta, the city’s economic development arm. The vote was held during the
regularly scheduled meeting of the board. Dr. Klementich has previously served as
interim president and CEO, as well as managing director of business development,
and has worked with Invest Atlanta for four years. Previously, Klementich served
as special assistant for economic development at the U.S. Economic Development
Administration in the Office of the Secretary. She served as California’s assistant deputy
secretary for economic development and commerce, and has held various roles with city
governments, including the consultant for Mexico’s President Vicente Fox.
The state’s department of motor vehicles - known formally as the Georgia
Department of Driver Services - has brand new digs at 400 Whitehall Street in
Downtown. The $2.3 million building replaces the doublewide trailer that had been
parked in an open area near Turner Field for more than a decade. The center is open
weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. to noon.
The city of Atlanta paid Atlanta Public Schools $9 million last week as part of
resolving a long-running legal dispute over tax allocation district revenues from the
Atlanta BeltLine, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. The city and school
system have been negotiating since last year over the tax payments, which have climbed
past the $13 million mark. 03
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