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Atlanta Georgia Plans For The Next 40 Years.

The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) is the regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency for the 10-county area including Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and Rockdale counties, as well as the City of Atlanta. For 60 years, ARC and its predecessor agencies have helped to focus the region’s leadership, attention and resources [...]

VIDEO: Chamblee GA is a great ITP neighborhood

This is Chamblee Ga Chamblee is a city on the move. With several new residents and businesses moving in every day, I don’t believe that we can ever have too much communication within our community directed at improving civic awareness and encouraging citizen involvement. This website is intended to be a valuable tool in helping [...]

Atlanta Georgia's midtown skyline photo by Bruce Thompson

VIDEO: Inman Park

Inman Park was the first planned residential suburb developed in Atlanta. Its promoter, Joel Hurt, was one of the city’s most important early builders. Improvements to the district, such as streets, a park, part of Atlanta’s first electric streetcar line, landscaping and tree planting were well underway by the time the first lots were put up [...]

Stone Mountain GA Has Many Faces

Say Stone Mountain around here and people arent sure if you mean the City of Stone Mountain, the village or the park, which of course includes the actual mountain. If you live ‘in town’ here in Atlanta, you likely think first of the park, and for good reason. Stone Mountain is an unmistakebale outcrop of [...]

Bristol at Briarcliff

New townhomes that will thrill you with value, location and features

Atlanta BeltLine Skate Park Opens With Big Fanfare

Posted by rbarnes on June 15th, 2011

The newest ‘world-class’ skate park opened this weekend in Atlanta’s historic Old Fourth Ward, adjacent to the developing Atlanta BeltLine. See the videos here for a first hand look.

This park features 15,000 square feet of bowls, rails, walls, and bumps that keeps the gang stoked for a visit, and away from the Po-Po! Bring it on.

There’s a huge grassy field for play and a well equiped play zone for the smaller kids too. The 17 acres of green space is impressive. Park hours and rules are a bit vague at the moment but Kwanza Hall says it’s open till 11pm. What are you waiting for?

Tony Hawk made an unannounced walk-on visit to help christen the park on Saturday June 11th. He also was helpful in the parks design. Last year the Tony Hawk Foundation awarded the park a $25,000 gift to help development. Awesome!

Who knows where the next truly sick skater will show. The odds of some Atlanta talent making the scene just went through the roof. This park is going to really raise the bar!

The park is a little off the beaten path, as it should be, but you’ll find it easily by following the big WSB-TV tower!

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Tony make it look so easy!

Atlanta Loves Great Street Food

Posted by rbarnes on June 8th, 2011

There’s lots of ‘common ground’ in Atlanta these days where everyone can come together for a good time and have some fun. The Food Truck trend is a great new wave that is making friends and spreading smiles to many around town.

The food trucks very diverse offerings suit a very diverse people and are best enjoyed where a group of them can corral into a space and offer what the people want. A little of everything! These happenings around town are becoming more frequent and the Friday events are tops.

Food Truck Friday is currrently underway at Atlantic Station and Lenox. Take your pick as both offer a varying mix of trucks and treats and are sure to please.

This past Friday (June 3) was the first for the Shops around Lenox location but the event was well attended with plenty of delicious variety. They start rather slow at 11am but by noon the crowd is growing fast. The lines are often long but as everyone will attest it is sooo worth it. Just ask your neighbor if you’re unsure because they will usually be glad to share advice on the best dishes.

Eating amazing food from a truck is affordable with most dishes priced from $2 to $7. My personal preference is to sample 3-4 items from different trucks and finish it off with cupcakes, or pops, or ice cream.

Food trucks have big followings and are definitely tied to social media for their success. Follow the trucks on twitter and/or facebook and you’ll be able to know when and where to connect. The Atlanta Food Truck Coalition is the mothership for this group and can be your best resource.

We have begun a twitter list for the vendors and players, and hope you will suggest any that we need to add.

Thursdays in Midtown and Fridays in Lenox & Atlantic Station will get you started, but look for these vendors at events and parking lots, and street corners each and every day. There’s lots of ‘common ground’ in Atlanta these days where everyone can come together for a good time and have some fun. The Food Truck trend is a great new wave that is making friends and spreading smiles to many around town.

Atlanta Weather; From Megan’s Tub!

Posted by rbarnes on May 2nd, 2011

When Megan gives you a storm warning, you’d better listen up! Thankfully this day turned out ok, but it could have been trouble!

Video Tests

Posted by rbarnes on March 11th, 2011

The City of Lovejoy Georgia is just south of Atlanta. The grand openning of a new city municipal building is cause for great celebration on a cool Saturday morning.

This is a test of a new video plugin using FLV, Flash video format. Not for phones and Mac stuff

How about this little mpeg4 version? I might ‘activate the software if it works well. Doe it play on your iProduct?

Old Houses Are Celebrated in Decatur GA

Posted by rbarnes on March 11th, 2011

The City of Decatur Georgia and the DeKalb County History Center is holing the 3td Decatur Old House Fain on March 19th. The day long event is happening in the Decatur downtown Holiday Inn.