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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The Atlanta Regional Commission put its muscle behind making Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport an “economic engine” for the Southern Crescent by announcing Thursday the formation of an Airport Task Force. At issue is why the busiest airport in the world hasn’t enriched metro Atlanta’s south side, where it resides. The solution, according to Leithead and Nancey Green Leigh, a Georgia Tech planning expert who also spoke, would be to create community improvement districts that would lead to the area becoming an “aerotropolis” — a region around Hartsfield that would be fueled by airport-dependent businesses.
