American Impressionist Masterpieces come to Millennium Gate Museum
Transcending Vision: American Impressionism 1870-1940 opens July 4, 2009 at the Millennium Gate Museum and remains on view through December 6. The exhibit is on loan from Bank of America through its Art in Our Communities Program.
The exhibition explores both the dissemination of Impressionism from its French roots into the American idiom and its reinterpretation of American landscape painting, including more than 120 important works by a diverse group of more than 75 artists such as Childe Hassam, Arthur Wesley Dow, Robert Spencer and others...
The American Boot Camp Company Brings Urban Boot Camp to Atlantic Station
The American Boot Camp Company is adding to their metro Atlanta locations with the debut of their Urban Boot Camp at centrally located Atlantic Station in midtown Atlanta.
The American Boot Camp Company will host a free workout on Saturday, May 30, 2009 to introduce the newest style of boot camp workout. The free workout will begin at Stairway 16, Street Level, at 7:30am. The first four-week session will begin on June 1st...
High Museum Wine Auction Nets $1.3 Million
In its 17th year, the 2009 High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction reached a live auction total of more than $900,000. The High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction celebrated its anniversary in 2009 with the theme “The Genius Inside: Wine + Food + Art.” Organized by volunteer co-chairs Crystal Cox and Karen Hughes, the auction events were held in Atlantic Station under festive big-top tents...
Local Vietnam Vets to honor sacrifice of a fallen soldier
A local group of Vietnam vets plans to honor fallen soldier by placing a monument to him at the Millennium Gate at Atlantic Station.
For the last 23 years during the week before Memorial Day, the organization has erected a plaque to a single soldier, sailor, airman or Marine who died in combat in Vietnam as a way of honoring their families for their sacrifice in what had been one of the country’s most unpopular wars...
A Series of Controlled Environments - A Group Show
May 8- May 24, 2009 A Series of Controlled Environments is an exhibition that explores unfamiliar surroundings and their effect on our sensory perception.
As our everyday environment becomes increasingly ambiguous and multi-layered, we implement many systems of control to maintain order and grasp an understanding of our place in current society. These attempts to dictate our environment are often met with limited success. This show creates a dialogue about the limitations we encounter when we attempt to control our environment, and alternately how our environment often determines our actions...
Green & Global; National Building Museum Exhibit Takes a World View of Sustainable Living
...Brownfield redevelopment: Atlantic Station, a new neighborhood on a former steel mill site in Atlanta, was close to public transit but separated from it by an interstate highway. A new pedestrian bridge has changed that, but to see if it and a car-sharing program are improving the health of residents, Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control will conduct a two-year study...
Sprawl to meet its limit in Atlanta
...Metro Atlanta is following a national trend in creating and growing high-density, walkable urban places. The two-week party that was the Olympics in 1996 first showed you how exciting a temporary walkable urban place could be, and you set out to make it permanent over the subsequent decade.
But it definitely is not confined to downtown.
Midtown, Atlantic Station, Virginia-Highland, Buckhead, Vinings and Decatur have also emerged as walkable urban places. There will be many more...
Help growth happen wisely
Here's a suggestion for a bumper sticker for metro Atlanta: Growth happens. In metro Atlanta, growth happens a lot. And fast. The question is, then what? ...Giving people sensible options to live where they want to live. Take Atlantic Station, for example. Atlantic Station provides housing for many residents and does it in a way that inconveniences almost no one. At least three reasons make that so. It's close to a MARTA rail station, with shuttle service. It's close to I-75/85. The restaurants and stores in Atlantic Station give residents the option of walking or driving a very short distance for errands and entertainment. Every time someone walks to the cleaners or restaurant, we erase one car trip...
New Motorcycle Policy
After receiving a number of complaints from Atlantic Station residents and guests about the noise and disruptions caused by motorcycles, a policy is now in place that prohibits motorcyclists from riding through and parking in the main retail district in Atlantic Station... However, we welcome motorcyclists to park throughout Atlantic Station outside of the main retail district. Much of this parking is well within walking distance of all Atlantic Station stores, restaurants and entertainment options. This policy applies to motorcycles only and does not apply to mopeds or scooters with engines smaller than 150 cc...
Outer Limits Sprawling Atlanta seeks new routes to the future
...The city's best known green building project is Atlantic Station, a mixed-use complex rising on the site of a former steel mill that's been widely hailed as a successful merging of development and economic interests. When fully built out in the next decade, this city-within-a city will include six million square feet of LEED-certified office space; 5,000 high-rise, loft-style units, townhouses, and single-family residential homes; nearly two million square feet of retail; and 1,000 hotel rooms...
Metro Atlanta ranks 14th among 30 walkable cities
By one new measure of walkability, metro Atlanta is middle of the road. Or, depending on where you are, middle of the sidewalk.
The region ranked 14th among the 30 largest American metropolitan areas in a survey of walkable urban places released Tuesday by the Brookings Institution. The think tank based in Washington, D.C. put it's home city at the top of the list, followed by Boston, San Francisco, Denver and Portland...
Atlantic Station wants you to go carless
Atlantic Station opened what they say is the nation's first "commuter cafe," designed as a clearinghouse for transportation alternatives aimed at the approximately 11,000 people who live and work within the mixed-use development.
"Atlanta is a city where we're conditioned to drive," said Brian Leary, vice president of AIG Global Investment Real Estate, which developed Atlantic Station. "We want a community where you're conditioned to walk."...
