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."... 
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BB&T to consolidate at Atlantic Station tower
Atlantic Station's third, and tallest, office tower will break ground next week, and will be anchored by the local and state corporate bank offices for BB&T Corp., according to an announcement by the bank on Thursday.
The new 25-story tower will be at 271 17th Street, adjacent to Atlantic Station's most recent high-rise project at 201 17th Street, which is scheduled to open this month.
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AARP magazine chooses Boston, four other best cities for seniors
ATLANTA - Urban renewal plans that favor mass transit, encourage walking, and allow older people to downsize while staying in their neighborhoods are the reasons that led the AARP to recognize Atlanta, Beacon Hill in Boston, Chandler, Ariz., Milwaukee and Portland as the best places for seniors to live.
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17th St. becomes Midtown development hot spot
...Seventeenth Street used to be a small-scale Ansley Park thoroughfare that people used to parallel park near the High Museum of Art and a nearby Starbucks. But that changed suddenly with the coming of Atlantic Station, metro Atlanta's leading mixed-use project, and the big yellow bridge the DOT built to link that project to Midtown's office district...
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Golden Shoe Awards go to pedestrian-friendly groups
At the 7th annual Golden Shoe Awards Celebration in October, PEDS recognized projects, people, and places that have contributed signficantly during the past year to improving metro Atlanta's pedestrian environment.
Pedestrian-friendly Public Place: Atlantic Station, for The District, a vibrant mixed-use center that’s a delightful place to walk, shop, and hang out.
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ATLANTIC STATION® ADDS SERVICES AND RETAIL VARIETY TO GROWING COSMOPOLITAN COMMUNITY
ATLANTA – October 2, 2006 – Atlantic Station, LLC today announced the addition of eight new and varied retailers and service providers to the Atlantic Station community, located in the heart of Atlanta’s cosmopolitan Westside.
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Atlanta in top 10 as home to big companies
Metro Atlanta has come up in the world over the past dozen years or so. It's home to six of the world's biggest corporations, or twice as many as in 1992, according to Fortune.
The magazine's latest Global 500 list of the biggest industrial companies puts Atlanta in ninth place as a world headquarters city.
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Atlantic Station's new building gets new name
Atlantic Station's One Market Street, although barely under construction, is history. Mike Shelly, senior vice president with Carter, has ditched the Market Street moniker in favor of 201 17th St. ..."we're going to brand 17th Street. People are familiar with the $34 million bridge. They know it's Atlantic Station," Shelly said.
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Atlanta Ranked 2nd Hottest City in America for New Business
Despite labor force news that Atlanta has lost its luster in regards to booming job growth, the area continues to attract about 100,000 people annually and continues to be recognized by consultants as a top five place to do business. |
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Special Report
Best Places For Business & Careers
Where are the best places to jump-start a business or a career? Texas and Virginia, with highly educated labor forces and relatively low business costs, score well on our annual ranking of the 150 biggest metros (populations over 345,000), with seven areas in the top 20. No other state places more than one locale in the upper echelon.
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Atlantic Station Continues to Take Shape and Exceed Expectations as Construction Passes Halfway Point
A city rising within a city, the 138-acre mixed-use Atlantic Station on a once-polluted steel mill site in Midtown Atlanta is exceeding many expectations, reports New York Times real estate writer Lisa Chamberlain, quoting Georgia Institute of Technology Associate Dean of Architecture Douglas C. Allen, who says, ''There's a serious attempt to create some form of urbanity out of a relic of another world.''
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Car is optional
UPS logistics engineer Brian Fish grew up in Roswell, but three years of living in New York City refined his vision of the type of home he wanted when he returned to Atlanta....That's why he and his wife, Bernadette, 34, a human resources manager, were among the first to sign on for a $419,500, three-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath house at the perimeter of Atlantic Station...
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Best in Atlanta Real Estate
Atlantic Station shopping a retail rush for city
Retail Winner
It's the mixed-use development that changed the face of Midtown, created a frenzy with the opening of its stores last year and is now the model for live-work-play communities nationwide...Atlantic Station has been selected as the winner in the retail category for Atlanta Business Chronicle's Best in Atlanta Real Estate Awards.
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Atlantic Station fills the bill
...the enigma of Atlantic Station... This new urbanist colony already offers a handful of restaurants, some of which --- like Rosa Mexicano and Lobby at Twelve --- debuted as big news in town. According to the development's Web site, an eventual 18 dining choices will help make Atlantic Station a ...
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Building a City Within the City of Atlanta
ATLANTA — "Make no little plans" was the sentiment espoused by the celebrated architect and city planner Daniel H. Burnham at the turn of the last century, and it seems to be making a comeback at the turn of this one. From Denver to Dallas to downtown Los Angeles, multibillion-dollar large-scale mixed-used developments are taking shape. But Atlantic Station here is Exhibit A.
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