Atlanta Wire

The Atlanta City Council unanimously passed Ordinance 26-O-1396 on July 7, enacting a 180-day moratorium on the construction of new self-storage facilities across the city. Sponsored by District 9 Councilmember Dustin Hillis, the ordinance halts the acceptance of all new building permits, land disturbance permits, special use permits, special administrative permits, and rezoning applications related to self-storage, secure-storage, and mixed-use storage facilities.

By: Alexa Avenson Authors pop the champagne when the bestseller badge lands and then spend the next several months quietly panicking as the numbers crater and the inbox goes cold. The launch height evaporates faster than anyone warned them it would. Steve Kidd has watched this story repeat itself across thousands of authors over nearly four decades, and something in him clearly refused to keep watching without doing something about it.

Machine Investment Group and Lionshead Capital Partners have acquired the Atlanta Airport Marriott, a 641-room full-service hotel adjacent to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, from the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System. The joint venture plans a comprehensive renovation of the 1980-built property, positioning the deal as an opportunistic play on the airport’s $11.5 billion expansion program and its standing as the world’s busiest by passenger volume.

By: ES Savannah Most conversations about organizational culture happen at the wrong level of abstraction. They happen in the register of values and vision and engagement scores, and they stop before reaching the specific, practical, sometimes uncomfortable work of actually changing how an organization functions day to day. Michele Herlein is not interested in the conversation that stops too soon.

The 57th Northside Hospital Peachtree Road Race sent roughly 56,000 runners down Peachtree Road on July 4, 2026, keeping Atlanta’s signature Independence Day tradition and the largest 10K in the world intact despite dangerous heat. Kenya’s Patrick Kiprop and Ethiopia’s Tsigie Gebreselama claimed the elite men’s and women’s titles on a course that ran from Buckhead to Midtown.

By: Christian Cooper Some lessons arrive with fanfare. Others sneak in through the most boring job you’ve ever had. John Berra’s defining lesson came from the second kind. Early in his career at Monsanto, he spent his days doing repetitive engineering work, wiring connections over and over, the kind of task that leaves plenty of room for your mind to wander. And wander it did, repeatedly, toward one question: there has to be a better way, doesn’t there?

In the world of fitness, there’s often pressure to follow extreme diets, adopt intense workout routines, and achieve rapid results. However, for many people, these approaches simply aren’t sustainable. Trent Harrison, the founder of Ransomed Bodies Training, understands the challenges of balancing fitness with the demands of everyday life.

Metro Atlanta added a series of corporate headquarters relocations across the first half of 2026, drawing technology, healthcare, and manufacturing companies into the region as firms consolidate operations near Georgia’s talent base and infrastructure.

England came from behind to defeat Congo DR 2-1 at Atlanta Stadium on July 1, with captain Harry Kane scoring twice in the final 15 minutes to send the Three Lions into the World Cup Round of 16. The Round of 32 match drew a global audience to downtown Atlanta, one of eight matches the city is hosting during a tournament projected to deliver more than $500 million in regional economic impact.

In today’s publishing world, your book is only part of your story. Before a reader buys your book, before a reviewer covers it, and before a media outlet features you, one of their first steps is often to look you up online. What they find in that moment can shape their entire impression of you as an author. That is why professional author website design services have become a valuable investment for writers who want to build credibility and grow their readership.