The Atlanta Streetcar will begin traveling the route under its own power starting next week as testing continues. A media release reminds residents that the overhead wires that provide the power for the streetcar are energized, carrying 750v DC and contact with them will cause serious injury or death. The testing and commissioning phase for the streetcar is a multi-step process that will continue as the system achieves significant milestones. It is intended to ensure that the system meets national standards and is certified as safe to carry passengers in mixed use traffic.
A car crashed into an Atlanta water treatment facility on Howell Mill road in Midtown Friday morning, causing authorities to block traffic in both directions as they pulled the car out of the water. According to our media affiliate CBS46, Officers reopened Howell Mill Road at about 7:45 a.m. For four hours, it had been shut down in both directions between 17th Street and Huff Road. The Infiniti with a Florida tag drove through a fence and into a mixing basin at a little before 4 a.m. Three men fled the scene on foot, police said. Officers caught up with one man, arresting him. Officers are still trying to track down the other two men. According to Glennis Curry of the City of Atlanta Watershed Management, the facility’s reservoirs are not impacted.
Real estate development firm Jamestown and SunTrust Community Capital, a subsidiary of SunTrust Bank, have formed a partnership that will fund the preservation efforts of Atlanta’s Historic Sears and Roebuck distribution center, which is being transformed into Ponce City Market, through approximately $48 million in capital contributions. This project is part of the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives program, and the partnership with SunTrust Bank is an important part of Jamestown’s plan to fund the restoration of the building. The aim of the program, which is administered by the National Park Service, is to lower the cost of construction for a historic property to be comparable to the cost of new construction. This is achieved through tax credits that equal 20 percent of the certified rehabilitation costs for qualified projects.
