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BMW Returns to Atlanta Fashion Week with Partnership Focused on Design and Cultural Impact
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HBCUs are Empowering Their Programs and Their Students with New Levels of Technology
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From the Atlanta Daily World:
By Hazel Trice Edney Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) produce 20 percent of all of America’s Black college graduates. That includes 80 percent of Black judges; 70 percent of Black doctors; 50 percent of Black teachers; and 25 percent of Black students who major in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Despite this level … Continued
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From the Atlanta Daily World:
JUNE 4 1972—College professor and activist Angela Davis is acquitted of charges that she assisted and conspired with the young men involved in a deadly 1970 shootout at the Marin County courthouse in California. The assault on the courthouse was an attempt to free imprisoned Black activist George Jackson. At least three people were killed … Continued
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From the Atlanta Daily World:
Managing money doesn’t require a finance degree, a six-figure income, or the latest viral budgeting hack. What it does require is a clear system—a blueprint that guides you step-by-step toward control, stability, and long-term success. In my over two decades as a money coach, tax professional, and personal finance columnist, I’ve seen the same truth … Continued
The post The Carr Report: Money Mastery…8 steps to financial power appeared first on Atlanta Daily World.
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Urbanize editor pens 'wickedly funny' Atlanta gentrification novel Josh Green Tue, 06/03/2025 - 15:22
Just in time for pool and beach-reading season comes a novel about scandalous Atlanta developers, raging NIMBYs, irreplaceable neighborhood history, gentrification run amok, and insanely dangerous snakes!
Of course, right?
Inspired by more than a decade of covering Atlanta real estate development, neighborhoods from West End to Oakhurst, and actual local mishaps involving escaped reptiles, Goodbye, Sweetberry Park is the second novel and third fiction book from Urbanize Atlanta editor Josh Green.
Work on the book—with a tongue-in-cheek subtitle “A Novel of City Life, Creeping Gentrification and Flesh-eating Snakes”—began back in the days of Curbed Atlanta (RIP). The story very much carries the spirit of that popular city website.
Green, the founding editor of Urbanize’s second city site to launch, studied creative writing (along with journalism) in college and graduate school. His first novel Secrets of Ash (2023) was nominated for Georgia Book of the Year, earned runner-up honors at the Hollywood Book Festival, and won an international competition, the IndieReader Discovery Awards for Literary Fiction, among other accolades.
The Sager Group; cover design, Siori Kitajima
Beneath its dark-comedy surface, Goodbye, Sweetberry Park is about the power of a diverse neighborhood coming together—in the face of a sweltering summer, a zoo fiasco, and gentrification pressures from invasive, shady real estate professionals who might sound quite familiar to Atlanta development watchers.
In recent weeks, the book has been the subject of coverage in Atlanta Business Chronicle, a WABE radio news segment, the Serene Stories podcast, and book club features, with more on the way. Its Amazon and Goodreads ratings are both 4.9 of 5 stars to date.
Here’s a sampling of what critics and other outlets are saying:
“The issues Green’s tale touches upon—housing, race, migration, grief, and the changing face of cities—are familiar all over... [It's a] big-hearted consideration of gentrification and the erosion of time." —Kirkus Reviews (verdict: “GET IT”)
“There’s no shortage of drama in this fast-paced, comic thriller full of snappy dialogue and big, colorful characters.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Wickedly funny.” —Gwinnett Daily Post
“What happens when you mix together Atlanta gentrification, escaped venomous snakes, and a drunk narrator nicknamed God? Anarchy that borders on being a little too real.”—Atlanta magazine Q&A
Goodbye, Sweetberry Park is available in ebook and paperback via Amazon and all other online outlets.
The first (free) public reading event for the book happens this Thursday evening in Sweet Auburn.
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Subtitle "Goodbye, Sweetberry Park" inspired by city's real estate trends, neighborhoods, actual developers
Guest Author(s) God Johnson
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Georgia Tech unveils sweeping vision for 'Creative Quarter' district Josh Green Tue, 06/03/2025 - 12:30
Georgia Tech has officially unveiled its ambitious plans for continued, multifaceted westward expansion in blocks just north of downtown Atlanta.
The 665 Marietta St. district, dubbed “Creative Quarter,” could include high-rise residential, hotel, and academic buildings, along with greenspaces and an adaptive-reuse food hall, among other uses, according to a Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill-designed rendering released by Georgia Tech.
Creative Quarter would replace the former Randall Brothers Construction Materials headquarters, a century-old complex situated near the western fringes of campus where North Avenue meets Marietta Street, a few steps north of downtown and directly west of Bobby Dodd Stadium.
Like Tech Square and the growing Science Square districts before it, Creative Quarter would aim to expand the campus and link existing portions together, but with a focus on arts and entertainment.
Another component would be the student-designed Westside Community Connector Bridge, a link over active railroad lines between the new district, Science Square, and the Westside, according to drawings.
Overview of long-term Creative Quarter redevelopment plans at 665 Marietta St. NW near the western fringes of Georgia Tech. Courtesy of Georgia Tech; designs, Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill
Specific uses at the creative hub call for “modern and collaborative facilities, spaces, and technology for performance and rehearsal, recording and filming, virtual reality and AI, makerspaces and studios, and more,” per Georgia Tech’s announcement. The broader goal would be to boost the region’s “reputation as a creative hub in the world of film, television, music, gaming, and the visual and performing arts.”
A Georgia Tech spokesperson tells Urbanize Atlanta no timeline for development of any Creative Quarter component has been set.
The vision is described as long-term and one that would rely on public-private partnerships to include retail, dining, hotel, offices, and residential uses alongside the core buildings, per the university.
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Northernmost section of the 665 Marietta St. site, as seen in September. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta
Earlier, predevelopment activity razed most buildings at the expansive Marietta Street property.
According to city filings in September, Georgia Tech was seeking a Special Use Permit to eventually build a hotel and dormitory buildings on the 7.3-acre site, which also counts 294 feet of frontage on North Avenue near Coca-Cola’s headquarters.
Creative Quarter would continue Georgia Tech’s growth spurt on the western rim of campus and beyond, where the university’s first new student housing since 2005 is fully under construction and the latest phases of the Science Square project debuted last year.
For now, the Marietta Street site is empty and idle, home to large concrete slabs and one old brick structure that was mothballed for future adaptive-reuse purposes. (According to new visuals, that use would be the Creative Quarter food hall component.) Eight commercial buildings totaling 101,000 square feet were razed in 2023.
Randall Brothers initially put the Marietta Street property up for sale in early 2018, citing the area’s post-Olympics boom and rise in property value during Atlanta’s long current development cycle.
Eastward views from the site to Midtown. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta
General overview of how ongoing redevelopment projects in the area west of Georgia Tech's main campus could come together in coming years. Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech Foundation paid $36 million for the property in November that year, noting that its bones and adaptive-reuse potential echoed two success stories on the flipside of downtown: Ponce City Market and Krog Street Market.
After selling the Marietta Street property, Randall Brothers relocated its Atlanta facility to an overhauled headquarters building overlooking Atlanta Road near Interstate 285.
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Overview of long-term Creative Quarter redevelopment plans at 665 Marietta St. NW near the western fringes of Georgia Tech. Courtesy of Georgia Tech; designs, Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill
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How the 7-acre property long owned by Randall Brothers Construction Materials related to Marietta Street, Coca-Cola's complex, and campus.Google Maps
The 665 Marietta St. warehouse site in relation to Georgia Tech, the downtown Connector, and other landmarks. Google Maps
General overview of how ongoing redevelopment projects in the area west of Georgia Tech's main campus could come together in coming years. Georgia Tech
Prior to demolition, the 7-acre cluster of warehouses, at left, with downtown ahead in the distance. Google Maps
Northernmost section of the 665 Marietta St. site, as seen in September. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta
Looking north, the lone century-old structure that remains standing at the former Randall Brothers Construction Materials headquarters. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta
Eastward views from the site to Midtown. Josh Green/Urbanize Atlanta
Subtitle Marrietta Street development aims to echo Tech Square, Science Square, help connect campus
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