The trend of mixed-use development has taken shape throughout the metro area in recent years. Stemming from an alternative to decades of homogenous development, the “live, work and play” concept is now embraced by some suburban communities seekin...

When Pat Patterson writes his memoirs, he wants to call it The World Went Digital and I Went Along for the Ride. The ride for Patterson got a little faster a month ago when the author and his Promagic Digital Media publishing company was signed to a ...

Bob Thiele remembers one proposal in particular from about two years ago. Someone wanted to start a daycare center specifically for 3 year olds and younger. Why? Because they wanted to work only with toddlers. After some research, Thiele sat them dow...

A group of property and business owners under threat of annexation along East College Avenue plan to start tidying up the area this month with the help of a county commissioner. On Feb. 27 commissioner Kathie Gannon will join on a small group of busi...

An Orlando development company plans to purchase the shuttered General Motors plant in Doraville to turn it into a large commercial and residential center. Details, including the 165-acre site’s sale price, remain under wraps, but the developer, Ne...

The popular Avondale Estates eatery Our Way Café suffered substantial damage from a fire that destroyed most of the back part of the establishment. Co-owned by Eva Marie Rosewall and Jody McFerren, Our Way was originally located in the former Towne ...

Two hundred struggling DeKalb County residents could find themselves in new “green” jobs through a federal program. Goodwill Industries International will partner with DeKalb County to train south county residents for jobs in areas such as weathe...

The percentage of unemployed workers in DeKalb County has hovered around 10 percent for the last several months, and local officials believe that number could slightly worsen before it improves. The county’s unemployment rate was 8.4 percent in Jan...

Art crawls and twists from floor to ceiling at Donna Van Gogh’s gallery like colorful kudzu directed by a natural force of feng shui. It is, all at once, complex and charming and evocative and bright, from covering the gambit of traditionalist conc...

The percentage of unemployed workers in DeKalb County has hovered around 10 percent for the last several months, and local officials believe that number could slightly worsen before it improves. The county’s unemployment rate was 8.4 percent in Jan...