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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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Halfway between downtown and Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, served by two MARTA stations, amid southwest Atlanta and East Point neighborhoods, lies Fort McPherson, 488 acres of beautiful grounds, housing and high-quality office and other buildings with fantastic development potential. The communities around the base, with the support of Georgia Stand-Up, the Ford Foundation and Georgia Tech planning students, have developed a community action plan that addresses Fort McPherson’s near and long-term potential. For two years, they have called upon the McPherson Implementing Local Redevelopment Authority to include them in the planning process, to address the immediate and certain realities of closure, to look for creative ways to save and maintain existing base facilities, and to manage the base to the mutual benefit of the communities and the city, as well as for its own future.
