- MARTA’s board voted unanimously Thursday night to select Keith Parker, current head of San Antonio’s VIA transit agency, as new general manager and CEO. Before VIA, Parker was head of the Charlotte Area Transit System from 2000 to 2009. [Creative Loafing]
- State Attorney General Sam Olens is still investigating a complaint filed by MARTOC chairman Mike Jacobs that MARTA’s board members violated state open meetings law by submitting their choices for the new general manager via email weeks before the official vote was held. [WABE]
- Atlanta Streets Alive is back Sunday, this time with a route that includes the Atlanta Beltline Eastside Trail
- Another new residential project – the perhaps aspirationally named “Bohemian House” – broke ground this week on Rankin Street near Historic Fourth Ward Park. The 276-unit building is scheduled to open next fall. The apartments are being built by North American properties, which also owns the retail portion of Atlantic Station. [Creative Loafing]
- Speaking of Atlantic Station, a 156,000 square-foot youth sports complex has been proposed for construction in the industrial pocket in the Loring Heights neighborhood, just across the railroad tracks to the north of Atlantic Station. [Midtown Patch via Curbed Atlanta]
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5 OctAtlanta Streets Alive Moves to North Highland
25 Mar
Atlanta Streets Alive is moving from downtown to a route planned to run two miles along North Highland Avenue from Inman Park to Virginia-Highland. from Old Fourth Ward, through Inman Park and Poncey-Highland to Virginia-Highland.*
The free, semiannual street festival and bike tour, scheduled for 2 to 6 p.m. May 20, was launched downtown in 2010. The event’s food, fitness, arts, dance and music activities took place along parts of Edgewood and Auburn Avenues for the first two years, but with construction of the downtown streetcar loop now underway, ASA’s organizers had to find a new site.
Rebecca Serna, executive director of Atlanta Bicycle Coalition, said that organizers had planned to eventually try other sites around the city, but the construction “was the kick that we needed” to go ahead and take the show on the road. Increasing bike-friendliness is a Poncey-Highland neighborhood priority, Serna said, and response from residents and businesses in the area has been “really enthusiastic.”
ASA is still seeking volunteers, sponsors and “activity partners” for this year’s event.
*Updated to reflect ASA’s amended route outline, which now aligns with the boundaries in the City of Atlanta’s NPU and neighborhood maps.
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