Additional Performances for Kooza Announced
18 performances added - February 10 to 22, 2009

Due to overwhelming demand, Cirque du Soleil™ announced that 18 additional performances, from February 10 to 22, 2009, will be added to the KOOZA show schedule in Atlanta. Proudly presented by iShares, KOOZA will perform for a limited engagement under the trademark blue-and-yellow Grand Chapiteau (Big Top) in Atlantic Station.

Tickets for these 18 additional performances will be available beginning Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 9:00am online at cirquedusoleil.com or by calling 1 800 678-5440...

Hate the malls? Here are shopping alternatives

The Holiday Shops at Atlantic Station, East District Avenue at 18th Street
9 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Saturday, noon-6:30 p.m. Sunday through Dec. 31 (closed Christmas Day)

The second annual open-air market designed to resemble the holiday street markets of New York brings 24 vendors to Atlantic Station. Shops feature handcrafted or homemade food, artwork, clothing, jewelry and unique holiday items. Local jewelry designer Robyn Canady says the market gives her a unique opportunity to reach shoppers who may never otherwise see her designs. Market shoppers, she said, get something special. “It’s more unique and right now with the economy, people are looking for things they can buy that are different.”

Bodies Exhibit Returns to Atlanta

BODIES...The Exhibition, returns to Atlanta. Seen by more than 10 million visitors world-wide, and nearly 400,000 in Atlanta during its 2006 run, BODIES...The Exhibition features 15 real, whole body specimens and more than 250 partial body specimens that have been preserved through a revolutionary technique of polymer preservation.

The Exhibition will open to the public beginning November 7th at the Premier Exhibition Center at Atlantic Station, 265 18th Street, Second Floor, Escalator 5.

For more information, visit www.bodiestickets.com or call 1-866-866-8265...

You’re in the Dark, But That’s OK

As an art history major obsessed with museums, visual perception is sort of my thing. I write down people’s names when I meet them because seeing the letters helps me remember; I get excited when I see a well-designed layout in a magazine.

Thus Dialog in the Dark, on view at Atlantic Station starting last Saturday, was an initially uncomfortable, yet ultimately refreshing, experience...

Smart Wash Eco AutoSpa Opens November 1st

Smart Wash is an eco-friendly, premium auto detail service that uses biodegradable cleaning products and 99% less water than other services... Having been in the car detailing business for more than five years, the idea to switch to an eco-friendly service came when owners Jorge and Jessica Gonzalez decided to "do their part" for the environment — especially with a drought plaguing Georgia. As we enter the second year of water restrictions, their modified business model continues to prove beneficial to not only them and the environment, but area cars as well...

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...

Upscale day care center promotes green lifestyle

Call it the Four Seasons of day care. It's FIO360, nestled in the heart of Atlantic Station, and it could very well be the most upscale day care in metro Atlanta.

And with a monthly price tag ranging from $1,529 for preschoolers and $1,708 for infants, it could be the most expensive, too.

Stretching 21,000 square feet, the plastics-free space features bamboo floors, Solatube skylights and saltwater fountains. It also boasts an alphabet climbing wall, non-toxic art supplies and a Lego Dome....

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."...