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The historic Sweet Auburn market celebrates the continued revival with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, emphasizing its role as a community staple rather than a World Cup-only attraction.
The historic Atlanta Municipal Market on Edgewood Avenue in Sweet Auburn welcomed a wave of new tenants, several of them Black woman-owned, with a ribbon-cutting on June 5. A Taste of Secrets brings Jamaican-Puerto Rican fusion, Dolce Tropical pours fruitnadas and shakes, and The Retro Grill and Edgewood Pizza are on the way. City officials and business leaders gathered to mark the additions to the century-old market.
Four new businesses have opened in the historic Sweet Auburn market, including A Taste of Secrets (A.T.O.S.), a Jamaican-Puerto Rican fusion restaurant opening June 13.
Mayor Andre Dickens is relying on tax allocation districts to bankroll a $5.5 billion Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative aimed at long-neglected Atlanta neighborhoods. Councilmember Michael Julian Bond has introduced legislation to extend six TADs through 2056, which the mayor's chief of staff projects could generate $5 billion to $7 billion over 30 years. Even at the high end, the initiative will need other public funding sources to reach neighborhoods outside the TAD boundaries.
The building that anchored downtown Atlanta for fifty years under the CNN banner officially reopened Wednesday as The CTR, a redeveloped mixed-use destination with a new atrium, food, art, and the city's new Atlanta Cultural Exchange platform. Mayor Andre Dickens and CP Group, the developers who bought the property, marked the milestone with about three and a half weeks to go before FIFA World Cup matches start drawing visitors downtown.
U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock secured $2 million in federal funding to establish a John Lewis Memorial Park at the corner of Auburn Avenue and Jesse Hill Jr. Drive, around the HERO mural honoring the late congressman and civil rights icon.
Habitat for Humanity's signature build event returns to Atlanta for the first time since 1988, honoring the late President Carter's legacy of service with a week-long construction blitz in the city where Habitat's international headquarters is located.
Georgia pastors who remember the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act are warning that recent Supreme Court decisions have stripped the landmark law of its power to protect Black voters in the South.
The construction giant founded by Herman J. Russell in 1952 will receive a marker at the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs on Fair Street.
The annual festival returns to Auburn Avenue this weekend, marking four decades of celebrating Black Atlanta through food, music, and community events.
Nine small businesses at the Municipal Market in Sweet Auburn will each receive $10,000 grants for storefront improvements ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The Tax Allocation District funding aims to help the historic 1924 market handle international visitor traffic this summer.
The streetwear and culture brand founded by Bem Joiner, Tory Edwards, and Ian Ford has opened a new store at Concourse B of Hartsfield-Jackson. The expansion from AIE's Sweet Auburn hub on Edgewood Avenue puts locally designed Atlanta merch in front of millions of travelers a week.
The task force's 615-page Harm Report documents over $1 trillion in losses to Black descendants, including $8.9 million in stolen labor from over 4,200 enslaved individuals between 1854 and 1864.
The comprehensive report documents historical harms from slavery through urban renewal and recommends policy changes in education, housing, and criminal justice. Fulton is one of the largest counties nationally to produce such a study.
The Grammy winner joined Senator Raphael Warnock's Easter Resurrection Service at one of America's most historic Black churches, drawing a packed crowd to Auburn Avenue.
Governor Kemp and Mayor Dickens attended the ribbon-cutting for Georgia Works' new headquarters on Auburn Avenue. The nonprofit has served more than 1,200 unhoused men since 2013.
Sweet Auburn is one of the most historically significant neighborhoods in American civil rights history, home to the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park, Ebenezer Baptist Church, and the APEX Museum. Auburn Avenue was once called "the richest Negro street in the world" by Forbes magazine. Today the neighborhood is seeing new investment while working to preserve its immense cultural heritage. The Sweet Auburn Curb Market is a public market that has been operating since 1923 and remains a beloved food destination.