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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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Richard Dagenhart, a retired professor of architecture and urband design at Georgia Tech, says business drives Atlanta’s development. “Everything about Atlanta is about making a transaction,” said Dagenhart. “It’s not about building things that are permanent. It’s not about history at all. It’s about making of transactions. That’s the entire mentality and history of Atlanta.” Now that the city is poised to tear down another stadium, Dagenhart says there’s one thing that will survive: a wall from Atlanta Fulton County Stadium over which Hank Aaron’s 715th homerun ball flew in 1974. It’s preserved in the parking lot outside of Turner Field and he says it will be part of any future development.
