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.
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.
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.
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.