“Affordability is not just important for enabling home ownership, but is critically important for sustaining economic growth and a metro area’s economic competitiveness.”
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How a lack of housing affordability is affecting metro Atlanta's economy
The Florida Fire Frogs have found a new home, at least for this season.
The Atlanta Braves’ High-A minor league affiliate will play its games this year at CoolToday Park in North Port, Fla. The Braves’ new spring training facility will be the temporary home for the Fire Frogs, who play in the Florida State League. The news was first reported by Baseball America.
The Fire Frogs were in need of a new home after owner David Freeman agreed to a $500,000 buyout to terminate the team’s lease at…
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Atlanta Braves minor league affiliate to play games at CoolToday Park
Time’s up, Oscar.
In 92 years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has nominated five — yep, you can count ‘em on one hand — women for Best Director. They are: Lina Wertmuller for 1976’s “Seven Beauties” (a movie so anti-woman it may as well have been made by a judge at the Salem witch trials); Jane Campion for “The Piano” in 1993; Sofia Coppola, 2003, “Lost in Translation;” Greta Gerwig for her 2017 debut, “Ladybird;” and the only winner, Kathryn Bigelow…
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The Movie Biz: Greta Gerwig suffers from the utter piggish-ness of Hollywood
Atlanta real estate investor and developer Tenth Street Ventures bought the The Winnwood, which dates back to 1930.
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In Midtown, a merger with the old and new at a 90-year-old apartment building
Atlanta-based private equity firm MSouth Equity Partners added another Georgia company to its portfolio.
MSouth said it bought a majority share of Nth Degree, an Atlanta-based tradeshow and event marketing company from Gladstone Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: GAIN) and Capitala Finance Corp., both of which retained minority equity in the company.
MSouth said the deal is also “in partnership with the company’s management team.” Financial details were not released.
MSouth invests primarily in…
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MSouth adds another Atlanta company to its portfolio
Little Five Points’ Star Community Bar could be back to business as usual before the end of the month.
Point Center Partners LLC has reached a verbal agreement with a new tenant for the space at 437 Moreland Ave. NE, managing member Scott Pendergrast told Atlanta Business Chronicle.
Pendergrast stressed no documents have been signed, but the agreement is to re-open Star Bar with the same name and business model. The new tenant would retain employees and the same booking agent for talent. Monday…
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Star Bar property owner close to agreement with new tenant