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You may have noticed it, too.The person outside your grocery store. Sleeping in a car in your office lot. Sitting quietly at your train station. Homelessness in Atlanta is no longer confined to downtown. It’s more visible—and more varied—than ever. One of the biggest misconceptions about homelessness is that it’s mostly caused by mental illness […]
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It was a time of improvement for the growing city of Atlanta Continuing our march through Atlanta’s history, this week’s Stories of Atlanta examines the state of the city in the mid 1850s. Since the infamous night that members of Atlanta’s Moral Party had resorted to violence in order to rid the city of its […]
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Thousands Convene in Washington, DC, Celebrating 112 Years of Public Service, Empowerment and Impact More than a century of sisterhood, scholarship, service, and social action will take center stage as Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, convenes its 57th National Convention, bringing together attendees from across the globe to celebrate its legacy and shape its path … Continued
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Plans: Reopened Connector tunnel, more bike lanes in works for Midtown Josh Green Mon, 07/07/2025 - 14:38
Even the wonkiest of Atlanta wonks might be unaware there’s a pedestrian tunnel underneath the Connector, seamlessly linking Georgia Tech to Midtown. It’s been closed to the general public for 17 years, with the exception of special occasions such as some Georgia Tech football games.
But according to the latest alternative transportation plans being compiled by Midtown Alliance, the 3rd Street Tunnel could be part of a broader push to boost east-west connectivity across the growing subdistrict and beyond.
Midtown Alliance, a nonprofit coalition of business and community leaders, has started putting together plans for a multimodal overhaul of 3rd Street stretching between Piedmont Avenue and the tunnel. The project is in engineering and design phases now.
A reopened 3rd Street Tunnel—as Georgia Tech proposed in its first Comprehensive Campus Plan in two decades, released in 2023—would be required to open up 3rd Street connectivity beneath the Connector to all points west.
“[A]s retail, housing, and commercial development expands along and around 3rd Street in Midtown, providing multiple modes of transportation has become increasingly important,” as Midtown Alliance notes.
Just south of 3rd Street, as one example, a massive Landmark Properties proposal with more than 2,230 bedrooms geared toward Georgia Tech students is scheduled to break ground this year.
Scope of proposed 3rd Street changes in Midtown between Piedmont Avenue and the eastern blocks of Georgia Tech's campus. Midtown Alliance
Sidewalk enhancements and the tunnel entry, as seen looking east to Midtown in March. Google Maps
Currently, bike lanes on 3rd Street exist between Peachtree and West Peachtree streets, but those offer no buffer from vehicles and span just two blocks. Midtown Alliance is proposing to expand those lanes to the east and west and install protections for cyclists and micromobility device users.
To collect public input and outline plans, Midtown Alliance has scheduled a pop-up, drop-in public meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the corner of 3rd and Cypress streets. Staff will be on site to answer questions and detail the proposal.
The tunnel between Georgia Tech and Midtown was closed by the university and Georgia Tech Police Department in 2008 due to crime concerns.
Eastern entry to the closed tunnel near Midtown's torch structure in March. Google Maps
Where a reopened tunnel would restore connectivity between Midtown and Georgia Tech between streets crossing over the Connector. Google Maps
Prior to shutting down the tunnel for public use, officials tried safety measures such as closing tunnel gates after midnight and adding more lighting, but after-dark criminal activity “such as vagrancy and robberies was still a problem for the area,” as the institute’s Technique newspaper relayed in June 2008.
On the flipside of the tunnel from Midtown, Georgia Tech has completed sidewalk widening and other streetscape enhancements on campus as part of broader efforts to lessen car-dependency and open up social spaces.
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Scope of proposed 3rd Street changes in Midtown between Piedmont Avenue and the eastern blocks of Georgia Tech's campus. Midtown Alliance
Where a reopened tunnel would restore connectivity between Midtown and Georgia Tech between streets crossing over the Connector. Google Maps
Sidewalk enhancements and the tunnel entry, as seen looking east to Midtown in March. Google Maps
Eastern entry to the closed tunnel near Midtown's torch structure in March. Google Maps
Tunnel patrons during a Georgia Tech football game day in September. Google Maps
State of the 3rd Street Tunnel, as seen from Georgia Tech's closed gates in 2018. Explore Atlanta/YouTube
Western entry to the tunnel under the Connector seven years ago. Explore Atlanta/YouTube
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Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees (HWHR) welcomes the Eastern District Court of New York’s decision to reject the Trump administration’s attempt to cut short the most recent extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians. The ruling affirms what we and our communities have known all along: any effort to strip status from Haitian TPS … Continued
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Amid dwindling numbers of Black players, Major League Baseball is partnering with HBCUs during All-Star weekend in Atlanta. Kicking off at Truist Park on July 11, 50 of the most promising student-athletes from Division I programs at HBCUs will gather at the home of the Atlanta Braves for the HBCU Swingman Classic. HBCU players, selected […]
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The Cop City RICO trial of Ayla King is once again headed to the Georgia Court of Appeals after Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kevin M. Farmer declares a mistrial.
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Last month I wrote a column about the inconvenience that arriving international passengers face when trying to access MARTA at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. The column, “Atlanta can improve interconnectivity between the airport’s International Terminal and MARTA,” suggested potential ways to fix what one can best describe as a clumsy connection today. The existing Atlanta International Shuttle […]
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Atlanta’s streets were overrun with over 50,000 costumed athletes for the 56th annual Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race on the Fourth of July, marking another year of the world’s largest 10k run. The race kicked off in Buckhead and stretched down to Piedmont Park. After completing the race, runners decked out in their Fourth-of-July best celebrated […]
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Mixed uses bound for heart of Kirkwood's commercial village Josh Green Mon, 07/07/2025 - 11:47
One of eastside Atlanta’s walkable commercial nodes could soon become denser with new construction and a variety of uses.
Infill development is on the menu for a downtown Kirkwood site that operated for nearly a decade as Anna’s BBQ at 1976 Hosea L Williams Drive, according to new property owners.
In place of the former barbecue hotspot and parking lot, “residential, retail, and office [uses are] coming soon,” per a promotional website compiled by new owners Stryant, a Kirkwood-based developer.
The property is situated across the street from another mixed-use hub, Kirkwood Station, built in the mid-aughts. (Banner signage at the site proclaiming, “Coming soon! Krazy Stan’s Discount Mattress” is a joke, according to the property’s new ownership.) Exactly what redevelopment could look like has yet to be determined.
“We are still working on the plans,” Stan Sugarman, Stryant managing partner, wrote to Urbanize Atlanta via email. “The website will be updated once they are approved.”
The 1976 Hosea Williams Drive property in question, at left, while operating as Anna's BBQ in 2021. Google Maps
According to LoopNet, the property in question spans about a half-acre total, with the lone structure on site dating to the 1960s.
Its sale closed in late May for $910,000 after 33 days on market, per listings.
Elsewhere on the eastside, Stryant’s recent projects have included affordable housing ventures Ralph David House and an infill corner build at 111 Moreland Ave., both in Reynoldstown. The company’s preliminary plans for an affordable housing venture for formerly homeless people on church-owned property on one of Kirkwood’s best-known residential streets caused a stir among some neighbors this past spring.
Overview of the .47-acre property recently purchased by Stryant in Kirkwood. Google Maps
Other Stryant projects in the city have included the adaptive-reuse conversion of the 1912 George W. Adair School in Adair Park.
Anna’s was in business in Kirkwood for nine years but shuttered in 2022 when owner Anna Phelps decided to retire and open a food truck. Following Anna’s closure, the building operated for a while as Georgia Boy BBQ.
What, dear Atlantans, should the next incarnation of this strategically located property look like?
The central Kirkwood property, at right, in proximity to Kirkwood Station across the street. Google Maps
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Most weekends, within the shadow of its controversial history, Stone Mountain Park is teeming with a diverse group of attendees. Located just east of Atlanta, Black women gather to power walk along the winding trails while others climb the jagged rocky path to the top of the Confederate memorial in the 3,200 acre park. Billed […]
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Another cohort of Atlanta micro-business owners has graduated from Goizueta Business School’s Start:ME Accelerator. This free, four-month intensive program provides business training and mentorship, culminating in the award of grant investment capital. This year, 68 ventures completed the accelerator. The May graduation ceremony featured catering, photography, music, and other services provided by program alumni. The ceremony also included […]
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The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, the largest biomedical engineering program in the country, began as a partnership between Georgia Tech and Emory University intended to maximize research and educational opportunities in fields of intersecting biomedical interest. Today, its labs are producing innovative technology with the potential to change lives while fostering the […]
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High-rise to lord over Midtown's original Varsity shows signs of life Josh Green Mon, 07/07/2025 - 10:20
A Midtown tower that would rise in a high-profile location near a landmark restaurant and hundreds of thousands of daily commuters is showing signs of rumbling to life in coming months.
Athens-based developer Landmark Properties in late 2024 unveiled designs for a revised, taller student-housing project at 680 Spring St. that would claim surface parking lots immediately north of The Varsity’s iconic original location.
On Wednesday, Landmark filed plans with the city for a foundation permit review that would cover structural components such as drilled piers, retaining walls, footings, and slabs for the 40-story building, according to Department of City Planning records.
Signage along Spring Street at the site in question shows the deadline to appeal tree removal to make way for the student-housing build is today.
When asked for a construction update last week, a Landmark spokesperson relayed via email: “We are still on track to break ground before the end of the year.”
The Landmark project would claim the final large surface parking lot on Spring Street south of 14th—now that Tech Square’s Phase 3 has risen—in an area that was formerly riddled with them.
Department of City Planning tree removal signage at the 61 North Ave./680 Spring St. site on June 26. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta
The most detailed look available for street-level retail plans and other aspects of the tower's base. Landmark Properties; designs, CNNA Architects
Renderings indicate the Olympics-era Centennial Tower at 70 3rd St.—colloquially known as torch tower, or the torch—will remain in place beside the new student housing high-rise.
Landmark plans to develop a U-shaped tower standing 40 stories—up from 34 stories initially pitched—that would mark one of Midtown’s tallest buildings erected during the current development cycle.
Other changes to Landmark’s proposal include a greater number of units, from 560 to 626, for a total of 2,235 bedrooms for students, according to plans submitted for review in December. (That’s 243 more bedrooms than were initially planned when the tower project came to light last year).
Scope of the surface parking lot between Spring Street (right) and the downtown Connector today. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta
The roughly 2-acre site in question immediately north of the original Varsity location. Google Maps
Elsewhere, revised plans for 431 parking spaces (in a six-and-1/2-story podium, wrapped on three sides with student apartments) are less than the 554 parking slots initially pitched.
The amount of proposed ground-floor retail in the building, meanwhile, was bumped up from 8,100 to about 8,600 square feet.
According to the Midtown Development Review Committee, the tower’s southern drive near The Varsity would be an extension of Ponce de Leon Avenue and provide on-street parking.
The tower would claim about 2 acres of surface parking immediately north of The Varsity, near the point where North Avenue meets the downtown Connector, which the restaurant group leases to parking providers but has been looking to sell for several years. Next door, the eatery has been dishing chili dogs and frosted oranges for nearly a century.
For Landmark, the project would mark its fourth student-housing project in downtown and Midtown. Others include The Standard, a student-housing tower also standing just north of The Varsity's parking lots. More recently, the company completed the Legacy at Centennial tower downtown.
The company has also made recent headlines in Atlanta for buying 40-acre Northcreek Office Park in Buckhead with plans to renovate.
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The southern face of the 40-story Landmark Properties proposal between Spring Street (right) and the Connector. Landmark Properties; designs, CNNA Architects
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Scope of the surface parking lot between Spring Street (right) and the downtown Connector today. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta
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The roughly 2-acre site in question immediately north of the original Varsity location. Google Maps
The most detailed look available for street-level retail plans and other aspects of the tower's base. Landmark Properties; designs, CNNA Architects
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The southern face of the 40-story Landmark Properties proposal between Spring Street (right) and the Connector. Landmark Properties; designs, CNNA Architects
Original rendering showing perspective from the south for the 1,992-bed proposal. The scope has since been revised. Courtesy of Landmark Properties; designs, CNNA Architects
The Varsity property in the shadow of high-rise construction in December 2020.Shutterstock
The Varsity's iconic signage and main building in 2017. Shutterstock
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Repeated Evidentiary Violations, Dismissals of Charges, and More Than 200 Unresolved Motions Have Plagued the State’s Efforts to Criminalize a Political Movement Nearly two years after being indicted on State racketeering charges in Georgia, the first of 61 Stop Cop City defendants charged with RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) will go to trial today, … Continued
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This November, the entire Atlanta City Council is up for election, including the council president position currently occupied by Doug Shipman, who will leave the role as this term ends. […]
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