For probably the next 20 months (or more), the Complete Street Project will span 12 blocks of Juniper between 14th Street and Ponce de Leon Avenue. The project will add a bikeway and better pedestrian features. Automobile lanes will be reduced to two vehicular travel lanes with dedicated turn lanes at key intersections. Traffic signals will also be upgraded throughout the corridor.

RoughDraft Atlanta: https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2023/05/10/midtowns-juniper-street-headed-for-big-makeover/

Mike Reeves, who powered Atlanta’s music and restaurant scene, dies

... In 1994, Mike Reeves along with Dan Nolen opened Smith’s Olde Bar on Piedmont Avenue, in the building that once housed the restaurant and cabaret Gene and Gabe’s. ...

... Smith’s improved its food menu in 2004 with a one-day-a-week pop-up featuring barbecue from twins Jonathan and Justin Fox. A few years later the Fox brothers were serving their pulled pork and sliced brisket at Smith’s seven days a week. ...

RoughtDraft Atlanta: https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2023/05/04/mike-reeves-who-powered-atlantas-music-and-restaurant-scene-dies/

The Immersive Disney Animation experience incorporates 46 beloved films

Atlanta Magazine: https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/a-new-immersive-disney-experience-at-armour-yards-will-be-a-delight-for-kids/

View the news clip on Atlanta News First: 

https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/video/2023/04/26/neighbors-voice-opposition-over-proposed-high-end-spa-cheshire-bridge-road/

Cheshire Bridge fully reopens roughly 20 months after fire

Catch the video on 11Alive.com

More details on Segment 1...

AND – Segment 2 is on schedule to open this fall, according to BeltLine officials. That will provide a paved route from Piedmont Park, behind Ansley Mall, to the Armour district near SweetWater Brewing Company’s longtime home.

https://atlanta.urbanize.city/post/beltline-paved-piedmont-park-pathway-coming-soon

Two years after Halpern Enterprises—the owners of Amsterdam Walk for nearly four decades—launched an initiative called “Reimagine Amsterdam Walk” to let Atlantans chime in about the property’s future, Portman Holdings hopes to purchase and redevelop the 9-acre shopping center, taking advantage of its prime-time frontage on the BeltLine’s Northeast Trail and Piedmont Park.

Read more from Urbanize Atlanta: https://atlanta.urbanize.city/post/amsterdam-walk-new-movie-studio-coming-city-jail-news

Two years have passed since the deadly shootings at spas in the Atlanta area that left eight people dead, including six Asian women.

On the week of the anniversary, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) lawmakers mourn and reflect on progress and challenges since the shootings.

RoughDraft Atlanta: https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2023/03/16/aapi-lawmakers-reflect-on-progress-and-hurdles-two-years-after-atlanta-spa-shootings/

Southern Living names Fox Bros. best barbecue joint in Georgia

RoughtDraft Atlanta: https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2023/03/10/southern-living-names-fox-bros-best-barbecue-joint-in-georgia/

KRA Haus applies for alcohol license in Armour Yards 

(Your PHCA Board voted not to support this license at our February meeting, and KRA Haus deferred their NPU-F appearance until March)