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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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Portman Holdings is planning another big project near Midtown’s Technology Square. The Atlanta developer presented the plans July 18 to Midtown’s Development Review Committee … The project between 3rd and 4th streets would sit next to Portman Holdings’ other big development Coda, a 21-story mixed-use building rising at Spring and 4th streets. Coda will be anchored by a 300,000-square-foot lease with Georgia Tech. “There’s a tremendous amount of interest that’s being generated in the area, as evidenced by Georgia Tech and Coda. NCR is coming there,” said Hunter Richardson, executive vice president of development for Portman Holdings. “We are finding that a lot of the other companies are looking to get into the area that may or may not fit into Coda.” Those are technology companies trying to be near Georgia Tech and its pool of talent, he said. “At the moment, we are seeing some fairly large companies.”
