athenahealth's new space at Ponce City Market. (Courtesy Curbed Atlanta)
athenahealth’s new space at Ponce City Market. (Courtesy Curbed Atlanta)

Ponce City Market’s first office tenant, athenahealth, unveiled its 60,000-square-foot space yesterday inside the mammoth mixed-use development.  The Massachusetts-based health IT company will bring 200 employees initially then as many as 600 jobs to their new PCM offices. Read and see more photos at Curbed Atlanta.

Construction on the new Walmart at Suburban Plaza near Decatur is slated to get underway this month with the store expecting to open in early 2016. Suburban Plaza is receiving a massive overhaul form Selig Enterprises, which is also bringing an LA Fitness and Starbucks to the shopping center. Read more at the Medlock Area Neighborhood Association website.

MARTA police are investigating the death of a man who was struck by a MARTA train at the Georgia State station this morning after 5:30 a.m. According to MARTA, the man was in an authorized area when he was struck by the train. The station has reopened but single-tracking is in effect from King Memorial, Georgia State, Five Points, and the World Congress Center/Georgia Dome.

Collin Kelley is the executive editor of Atlanta Intown, Georgia Voice, and the Rough Draft newsletter. He has been a journalist for nearly four decades and is also an award-winning poet and novelist.