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One year later: How metro Atlanta has changed since COVID-19 pandemic A look at how metro Atlanta has changed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to what many are calling the 'new normal.' Author: Jason Braverman (11Alive), Angela Chao Published: 5:30 AM EST March 11, 2021 Updated: 3:28 PM EST March 11, 2021 ATLANTA — One year ago, the coronavirus pandemic started to hit home: panic shopping, grocery store shelves empty and nerves running high.  It was March 14, 2020. Gov. Brian Kemp declared the state's first ever public health stat...

UpdatedMon, Mar 8, 2021 at 4:13 pm ET Reply The calls to split Buckhead from the City of Atlanta continue as the non-profit Buckhead Exploratory Committee makes its case in email. (Marcus K. Garner | Patch) ATLANTA — The Buckhead Exploratory Committee released a memo this morning launching a campaign to separate the Buckhead neighborhood from Atlanta. Citing concerns about an increase in taxes and violent crime, and offering a blistering assessment of the city's infrastructure and schools, the non-profit study group voiced its demands in a three-page digital mailer headed with three bold, c...

Bar Vegan, an “experiential” restaurant and cocktail bar from Slutty Vegan founder Aisha “Pinky” Cole, opens Sunday, February 28, at Ponce City Market. The full-service restaurant takes over the space formerly occupied by the Mercury, which closed in 2019 after three years on the second floor of the central food hall. Expect riffs on classic cocktails like a pineapple and Texas margarita, the cosmopolitan, old fashioned, and gimlet, along with vegan beer and wine, non-alcoholic cocktails, and wildly over-the-top tableside drinks served in a fire extinguisher, Ferris wheel, or a gas ca...

Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood is rich and mostly white, but the same jump in violent crime that many cities are seeing has alarmed its residents. Some of them think secession is the answer.

Reply Town Center at Cobb, located in Kennesaw, will now be managed by its lead lender, Deutsche Bank Trust, and other investors. (Shutterstock) Deutsche Bank Trust claimed the property from Simon Property Group, according to the MDJ, which also owns Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza in Atlanta. The Town Center at Cobb section of Simon Property Group's website was taken down as of Wednesday afternoon. Deutsche Bank is the lead lender and trustee for a $200 million loan for the mall, granted in 2012. Attorney Matthew Norton of the law firm Polsinelli said the bank and other investors in the loan w...