After the challenge of narrowing 7,000 applications for its Knight Cities Challenge to 126 finalists, the Knight Foundation faced another daunting task: selecting just 32 winners to share $5 million in grant funding. Read More

When it comes to strategies for job creation, retail gets a bad rap. Read More

City-owned vacant or underutilized property can be a valuable asset for municipalities. Read More

In the early 1990s, the East Lake neighborhood was one of Atlanta’s poorest. The East Lake Meadows housing project was the neighborhood’s epicenter of poverty and rampant crime. In 1995, local real estate developer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Tom Cousins  first proposed the idea of redeveloping East Lake Meadows into a mixed-use housing development. Read More

Logistics Plus Inc. is a small but growing company in the $700 billion global logistics industry. Read More