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Renderings: Emory breaks ground on glassy new Midtown tower
The new Winship facility aims to consolidate cancer care services under one roof, replacing a parking lot.
Georgia State and Emory are 3-D mapping Oakland Cemetery, Manuel’s Tavern-style
Every single headstone and statue will be immortalized as a 3-D rendering.
Revised More MARTA list calls for more Beltline rail, less Clifton Corridor funding
Previous plan for billions in tax spending mapped out just seven miles of light rail along the future Atlanta Beltline loop.
More MARTA votes are in: Beltline rail, Clifton Corridor are most sought projects
Meanwhile, some activists claim the transit agency’s questions helped stack the deck against full-loop Beltline transit.
MARTA board to vote on spending $2.5B for transit expansion in October
Some activists worry the Beltline won’t get the transit system it deserves; MARTA’s public survey closes next week.
Emory Midtown Hospital bulldozing old parking deck to build ... nothing
Empty lot is bound for neighborhood in need of quality development.
It’s official: Atlanta will gain 744 acres in 2018
Emory and CDC annexation marks largest expansion of the city in more than six decades.
Emory annexation into City of Atlanta clears hurdle
Deal between the city and DeKalb County makes the grade.
Emory petitions to join Atlanta, signalling potential boost for Clifton Road MARTA
Upon annexation, Emory would be the sixth major university within city limits.
MARTA’s Clifton Road expansion could hinge on this one little house
By purchasing a home abutting both the City of Atlanta and Emory’s campus, the university could be pushing toward annexation—and transit.
Druid Hills neighbors fight development in shadow of Fox 5 tower
Around the corner from Emory University, a group of Druid Hills neighbors says their opposition to a residential project goes beyond traditional NIMBY concerns of noise and traffic and is a matter of life and death.
Atlanta’s most annoyingly vacant places: three years later
In late 2013, we strapped on our collective thinking caps and set out to photograph, for posterity’s sake, some of Atlanta’s "most annoyingly vacant places" as one of the first installments in the Visual Journeys series. Here’s an update.
Historic Briarcliff Mansion could become boutique hotel
The long-neglected Candler Mansion on Briarcliff Road could soon be providing upscale accommodations near Emory University. Plans for the adaptive-reuse, revealed at a public meeting last week, include a 50-room hotel and events facility.
Emory annexation could be a smart move for Atlanta
The City of Atlanta is home to an array of institutions of higher learning, including Georgia State, Georgia Tech, and the schools that make up the Atlanta University Center. But Emory is gunning for freshman status with an annexation proposal.
