By Mike Dobbins June 15 – Lower income people, often lacking cars yet more bound to their work locations, suffer greater travel inequities than others. Getting to jobs, shopping, health, education, and other services costs more and takes longer. Shortening the distance and the accessibility both by highway and by transit from home to these […]
Affordable Housing
2 Peachtree tower: A behind-the-scenes look at developers’ questionsBy David Pendered June 13 – The questions developers have asked about Atlanta’s plan to flip the 2 Peachtree office tower into housing shine a light into their thoughts on how the deal might come together. A five-page document lists 52 questions submitted by potential redevelopment partners, along with responses from Invest Atlanta. The city’s […]
Environment
UN to adopt first treaty to protect biodiversity in high seasBy David Pendered June 4 – The United Nations remains on track to formally adopt this month an historic treaty to protect oceans around the world. The treaty represents the UN’s first-ever attempt to establish an international agreement to safeguard biodiversity in the high seas, the term for the unregulated sections of the world’s oceans […]
Women Sailors
Canadian woman named ‘living embodiment of all the values’ of Globe40By David Pendered March 31 – The only female skipper to enter the inaugural Globe40 round-the-world race finished the race in France as just one of four boats to campaign each of the eight legs of the journey. Candadian skipper Mélodie Schaffer completed the race, landing the Whiskey Jack in Lorient, France, on March 19. […]
Affordable Housing
Private investors want to own more affordable housingBy David Pendered March 21 – Private and institutional investors are planning a big surge of investments in new and existing affordable multifamily housing in states that could include Georgia, according to a report by the New York Fed. “The majority of respondents indicate that they anticipate raising more equity in the next 12-24 months […]
Short Takes
Correcting Atlanta’s Growth Mythology – Why It MattersBy Mike Dobbins March 9 – As a member of AIA Atlanta’s Architect Principals Roundtable back in 2015, I looked forward to our meeting welcoming Tim Keane as Mayor Kasim Reed’s newly appointed commissioner of planning. His emphasis on elevating design quality as a core value was music to our ears. Leaving the meeting, though, one […]
Environment
Historic American shad: Dams hamper reboundBy David Pendered BEAUFORT, N.C. – The downward spiral of the once-abundant American shad can be traced to an era of aggressive fishing techniques that arose after War of 1812, according to one of the latest programs at the North Carolina Maritime Museum. By the 1840s, competition for shad was so intense that fisher folks […]
Women Sailors
Canadian woman sets record in leg of Globe40By David Pendered Feb. 19 – Candadian skipper Mélodie Schaffer set a speed record as she sailed into Grenada in first place on the leg of the Globe40 sailboat race from Brazil to Grenada. Schaffer and co-skipper Tom Pierce set a 24-hour event record by covering 347 miles at an average speed of 14.5 knots. […]
Affordable Housing
HouseATL expands board, mission, aid for familiesBy David Pendered HouseATL has expanded its Advisory Board as it focuses on new efforts to expand beyond Atlanta’s city limits, help Black and brown families purchase homes and establish a formal visioning plan. HouseATL announced Wednesday that, as a result of voting at the group’s Feb. 10 meeting, HouseATL now has a board with […]
Affordable Housing
Wealthy benefit when land rezoned for more dwellings: paperBy David Pendered Feb. 12 – Allowing more homes to be built on land once zoned for single-family detached houses benefits the wealthy and educated, while homes of existing residents lose value, according to a paper released by scholars with Wharton business school and Princeton University. The paper could provide guidance in Decatur. The City […]
