http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:36:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/02/are-piedmont-parking-decks-green-features-a-sham/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/02/are-piedmont-parking-decks-green-features-a-sham/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:21:48 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=21827 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/02/are-piedmont-parking-decks-green-features-a-sham/feed/ 10 Grist says 'pretty much none of [parking deck's] touted green factors are particularly green, nor are they part of the LEED system' http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/12/piedmont-park-parking-deck-opponent-to-receive-award/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/12/piedmont-park-parking-deck-opponent-to-receive-award/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:02:10 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=14695 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/12/piedmont-park-parking-deck-opponent-to-receive-award/feed/ 123 Doug Abramson to be honored by Georgia First Amendment Foundation on Feb. 28. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/25/judge-friends-of-piedmont-park-must-damages/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/25/judge-friends-of-piedmont-park-must-damages/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:20:57 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/25/judge-friends-of-piedmont-park-must-damages/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/25/judge-friends-of-piedmont-park-must-damages/feed/ 93 A Fulton County Superior Court judge yesterday ruled in favor of the Atlanta Botanical Garden in its case against Friends of Piedmont Park, the nonprofit citizens’ group that fought a parking deck in the city’s iconic Midtown greenspace. Judge T. Jackson Bedford determined two of the four claims filed by the garden against the group [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/10/friends-of-piedmont-park-responds-to-botanical-garden-in-legalese/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/10/friends-of-piedmont-park-responds-to-botanical-garden-in-legalese/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:26:08 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/10/friends-of-piedmont-park-responds-to-botanical-garden-in-legalese/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/10/friends-of-piedmont-park-responds-to-botanical-garden-in-legalese/feed/ 23 Friends of Piedmont Park, the nonprofit park advocacy group that was one of the most vocal opponents against the Piedmont Park parking deck, responded today to the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s claim seeking $273,000 in legal fees after last year’s bitter Open Records dispute. The nonprofit group filed an answer motion to contest the garden’s [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/07/so-about-this-273000-lawsuit-the-atlanta-botanical-garden-filed-against-the-friends-of-piedmont-park/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/07/so-about-this-273000-lawsuit-the-atlanta-botanical-garden-filed-against-the-friends-of-piedmont-park/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:18:37 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/07/so-about-this-273000-lawsuit-the-atlanta-botanical-garden-filed-against-the-friends-of-piedmont-park/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/07/so-about-this-273000-lawsuit-the-atlanta-botanical-garden-filed-against-the-friends-of-piedmont-park/feed/ 5 Well, that went relatively unnoticed. On Dec. 7, 2007, the Atlanta Botanical Garden filed a $273,000 lawsuit against the Friends of Piedmont Park and Doug Abramson, the park advocacy group’s president. The garden claims that because of an earlier suit filed by Abramson seeking the garden’s financial records, it had to spend unbudgeted funds — almost [...]