Invest Atlanta approved a $925,000 grant to give Underground Atlanta a fast World Cup makeover downtown. Kirkwood threw its 23rd annual Spring Fling at Bessie Branham Park, Morehouse College sent off 578 graduates at the first commencement under new president F. DuBois Bowman with Chris Paul as speaker, and Emory's Rollins School of Public Health joined a national coalition pushing HIV prevention into neighborhood pharmacies.
Underground Atlanta Gets a $925K World Cup Glow-Up Before the Matches Arrive Downtown
Invest Atlanta's board approved a $925,000 grant to dress up Upper Alabama Street and Peachtree Fountains Plaza at Underground Atlanta in time for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The work, paid for out of Eastside Tax Allocation District money, is supposed to wrap within about four weeks of the first matches and is billed as the first of four phases to re-tenant the long-struggling complex.
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