Atlanta City Council | Urbanize Atlanta

MARTA declares audit results ‘clear win’ in tussle with city

Results should green-light transformation of Five Points station, transit agency contends

March 12, 2025 by Josh Green

Virginia-Highland

Neighbors start petition to thwart Amsterdam Walk redevelopment

Before Atlanta City Council vote, revised project's opposition calls for "smart and sensible development"

March 7, 2025 by Josh Green

Atlanta mayor reaffirms commitment to Beltline rail

Reports due this month could hugely impact intown transit future, Dickens tells reporters

February 12, 2025 by Josh Green

Old Fourth Ward

Atlanta Medical Center demolition is coming. What should go here?

Process of turning shuttered medical campus into mixed-use hub set to start in coming weeks

January 29, 2025 by Josh Green

MARTA's $230M Five Points transformation is officially back on

Remake of transit system's largest, busiest hub rolling forward with "slight modification," agency reports

November 14, 2024 by Josh Green

Downtown affordable housing build finally moves toward construction

Mixed-use Trinity Central Flats project has been three years in making

October 14, 2024 by Josh Green

Phase one components of downtown’s Stitch start to emerge

Officials: Highway-capping park project has tallied $42M; public visioning session planned soon

October 26, 2023 by Josh Green

Downtown affordable housing build finally shows signs of life

Trinity Central Flats project planned for vacant site called one of downtown's most convenient locations

October 10, 2023 by Josh Green

$10M awarded for Stitch project as timeline comes into focus

Funding from Eastside TAD would go toward "preliminary engineering activities"

July 21, 2023 by Josh Green

Images: Vision for remade Bankhead MARTA station comes into focus

Final community engagement meeting for MARTA’s transit-oriented redevelopment scheduled next week

June 8, 2023 by Josh Green

New promo emerges for downtown's highway-capping Stitch project

Atlanta mayor to Washington, D.C. congregation: "Now is the time for change”

June 1, 2023 by Josh Green

MARTA wants your 2 cents on Bankhead station's extreme makeover

Public sessions this month to help “frame the master-plan process”—with or without Microsoft next door

April 6, 2023 by Josh Green

City Council calls for audit of More MARTA program; MARTA fires back

Councilmembers call review of expansion initiative necessary, but MARTA blasts move as “disappointing and disingenuous”

March 21, 2023 by Josh Green

Downtown's 'Stitch' concept scores another boost of federal cash

Project meant to weave Connector-divided downtown back together lands one of first Reconnecting Communities program grants

February 28, 2023 by Josh Green

Atlanta mayor vows to protect forest around controversial police complex

In wake of fatal shooting, Atlanta, DeKalb leaders say public safety training center—aka, "Cop City"—will spur business, boost jobs

January 31, 2023 by Josh Green

UPDATED: More MARTA expansion plans to fall drastically short. Now what?

Report: 17-project list faces insurmountable funding shortfall, declared impossible by MARTA brass

January 26, 2023 by Josh Green

Downtown's highway-capping park concept launches (useful) website

New Stitch info source provides cost updates, breakdown of park sections, history

November 16, 2022 by Josh Green

Downtown's Stitch proposal scores largest federal investment to date

But $1.2M is drop in the bucket for greenspace project described as transformative

October 28, 2022 by Josh Green