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Central Atlanta Progress and the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District are pleased announce that construction will begin in August 2010 on the planned sidewalk and roadway improvements along Marietta Street NW between Peachtree Street and Park Avenue West and Centennial Olympic Park Drive between Marietta Street NW and Luckie Street NW.  Click here to learn more about the planned improvements.

A Construction Kick-Off Information Meeting will be held for property owners, tenants, retailers, residents and other interested parties to lean more about the project.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

8:30 am – 10:00 am

Grand Ballroom at Omni Hotel at CNN Center

100 CNN Center, Atlanta, Georgia 30303

The meeting agenda will include

- Introductions to the Project Construction Team

- Overview of Project Schedule and Staging

- Review of Project Scope of Work

Please share this invitation with your neighbors and colleagues who have an interest in this project. We look forward to seeing you next week.  If you have questions in the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Jennifer Ball
Vice President, Planning

Central Atlanta Progress, Inc.

50 Hurt Plaza – Suite 110 • Atlanta, GA 30303

On Tuesday, August 3, 2010, the Hotel Row Historic District will host the Annual National Night Out starting at 6:30pm at ‘The Cake Hag’ on 233 Mitchell Street (between Spring St and Forsyth St). This event is organized by Atlanta Downtown Neighborhood Association (ADNA), Castleberry Hill Neighborhood Association (CHNA) and the Marietta Street Artery Association (MSAA) in partnership with Hotel Row Historic District (HRHD).

National Night Out, a year-long community building campaign, is designed to: (1) heighten crime and drug prevention awareness; (2) generate support for, and participation in, local anti-crime programs; (3) strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships; and (4) send a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back!

Members of the Atlanta Police Department (APD), Zone 5, Atlanta Fire Dept., City Council and others will be joining us! We will have crime prevention materials and tips and will be helping spread the word on what the CHNA, ADNA, MSAA, HRHD and APD are doing to help our neighborhoods become crime free!

Tell your neighbors, tell your friends and come join us for America’s Night Out Against Crime – National Night Out 2010! We will have prizes, snacks, drinks and fun times, all to promote public safety awareness in our Atlanta neighborhoods!

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The Atlanta City Council’s Public Safety and Legal Administration Committee to announce work session to discuss the formation of a task force to review the liquor license permitting and enforcement process

ATLANTA – At its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, July 13, the Atlanta City Council’s Public Safety Committee and Legal Administration Committee will announce an upcoming work session to discuss the formation of a task force to review the liquor license permitting and enforcement process as recommended in Council Resolution 10-R-1343.

Resolution 10-R-1343 would establish a community and industry working group to review the alcoholic beverage licensing process between the time an extended hours liquor serving permit application is submitted by an establishment to the city and the time it is considered by the License Review Board for approval or disapproval.

The Public Safety Committee meets at 3 p.m. in Committee Room No. 2, Atlanta City Hall, Second Floor, 55 Trinity Avenue, SW.

However no action will be taken at the Tuesday, July 13, 2010 meeting on 10-O-1342, which proposes a pilot program in the Auburn and Edgewood Avenue Districts to extend pouring hours to 4 am.

City Councilmembers Kwanza Hall and Michael Julian Bond on July 6 introduced legislation that would allow the city to establish an Extended Hours Permit Pilot Program on Auburn and Edgewood Avenues to examine the benefits and risks of extending the permissible hours for sales of alcohol for on-premise consumption in the city.

Hall and Bond also introduced a resolution calling for a comprehensive review of the current process by which businesses obtain licenses to sell and serve alcohol and the city’s ability to close businesses with liquor licenses that repeatedly violate city code and attract crime and criminality to a community.

Currently establishments with pouring licenses can only operate Monday through Friday between the hours of 9:00 a.m. of one day and 2:30 a.m. of the following day and on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, under city law.

The new legislation would allow establishments within the pilot program’s boundaries to extend the hours within which alcohol may be sold for on-premise consumption to Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. until 3:55 a.m. of the following day and on Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. until 2:55 a.m. on Sunday.

If the legislation is approved, a qualified establishment must meet the following requirements:

(1)        Possess a valid annual license for the sale of alcohol for on-premises consumption of distilled spirits, wine and malt beverages; and

(2)        Be located within the boundaries of the Edgewood Avenue/Auburn Avenue Pilot District. (Auburn: Piedmont Avenue to the Downtown Connector; Edgewood: Piedmont Avenue to Daniel Street.); and

(3)        Possess an extended hours permit issued by the City of Atlanta Police Department.

For more information contact the Atlanta City Council Public Safety and Legal Administration Committee Chairman Ivory Lee Young, Jr. at 404-330-6046.