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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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Over the past year, City of Atlanta has lured The Coca-Cola Co. and athenahealth Inc., back inside the perimeter, bringing with them thousands of jobs. Some credit for the reinvestment in downtown Atlanta by major high-tech operations goes to the increased quality of life brought on by the BeltLine and other major projects in the city. Ryan Gravel (MCP/MArch '99), who imagined the 22-mile BeltLine in his 1999 thesis said, “Increasingly, instead of people moving toward jobs, which gave Alpharetta and places like that a strategic advantage a generation ago, jobs are moving toward the more compact, walkable, transit-friendly communities where young people want to live today.”
