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The Weekend Guide: Black History, Food Tours, and Orchids in Atlanta

It’s time to look at this Southern capital with fresh eyes: Atlanta is stealthily emerging as one of the country’s great urban destinations, with tantalizing eats, creative cocktails, ample museums, and plenty of green space. Atlanta has always held a particular magic, and what really makes the city shine is its abundance of Black history and culture—here’s how to see the best of it in three days. 

Day 1

Atlanta wouldn’t be Atlanta without the wealth of contributions that African Americans have brought to the city. Set out early from Hotel Clermont, which opened three years ago in a 1924 apartment building turned motor lodge, and head toward Auburn Avenue (affectionately known as Sweet Auburn), where Martin Luther King Jr. spent his childhood. 

Walk a few short blocks to Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park to learn about the civil rights hero’s life and activism. Visit the 1895 house where he was born and Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he preached until his assassination in 1968. Pay your respects at the King Center, where both he and his wife, Coretta Scott King, were laid to rest. 

Take a break to indulge in a taste of the Caribbean at Mangos Caribbean Restaurant, where you can choose from dishes like jerk chicken, escoveitch red snapper, and shrimp curry. After lunch, cross the street to For Keeps Books, which specializes in rare editions by Black authors, and continue along to the APEX (African American Panoramic Experience) Museum. You’ll need to book a timed-entry ticket in advance to explore the collection, which includes an exhibit on Black women in STEM. 

End the day with dinner at one of the city’s renowned Black-owned restaurants, Paschal’s. The original location on West Hunter Street was founded in 1947 by two brothers, James and Robert Paschal, and later served as an integral gathering place during the civil rights movement. This new location, opened in 2002, remains a favorite spot for soul food classics like fried chicken and mac and cheese.

Day 2

Head over to the Castleberry Hill historic arts district and browse through Besharat Gallery, the Granite Room, and ZuCot Gallery, the largest Black-owned fine art gallery in the Southeast. From here, drive about four miles north to the Atlanta Botanical Garden in Piedmont Park to see America’s largest permanent orchid collection; the thousands of flowers are as boldly colorful and unique as the art you’ve been viewing on gallery walls all day. 

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With Reverb hotel open, Castleberry Hill developer turns focus to apartments

You can’t miss Reverb’s towering LED board facing Mercedes-Benz Stadium

In some form or another, a Hard Rock hotel has been planned for downtown Atlanta since President George W. Bush was in office.

The Great Recession squashed a Hard Rock hotel-condo concept once pitched for a site beside the Georgia Aquarium. More recently, a few blocks away in Castleberry Hill, construction delays have plagued the Reverb by Hard Rock, which was initially expected to open in early 2018, allowing months to prepare for Atlanta’s 2019 Super Bowl.

Fits and starts aside, downtown officially got its Hard Rock on a couple of months ago. That’s when the music-themed lodge began accepting guests and flipped the switch on a huge LED lightboard that faces Mercedes-Benz Stadium, like two glowing neighbors in the night.

The 195-room, Gensler-designed Reverb, scaled back from initial plans, is the first example of a new boutique collection in the works by Hard Rock International. Read more here.

Brooklyn Tea expand: Castleberry Hill shop set to open this spring

The tea shop will feature 50 varieties (with more to come), plus lattes and vegan pastries.

Growing up, everyone in A.D. Wright’s West Indian household had a job to do; his was serving tea to his mother. In that regard, his life’s work was established at age 3. After growing up and working as a digital marketer, Wright found himself missing tea. He secured a job at a Manhattan tea shop and learning the business side while simultaneously studying to be a tea sommelier.

In 2017, he used his digital prowess to launch an online tea store with significant other Jamila McGill. A year later, the pair opened a brick-and-mortar shop near called Brooklyn Tea near their home in New York. Now, in May, their long-time friend Kerri-Ann Thomas is bringing Brooklyn Tea to Castleberry Hill in Atlanta.

“I’m from Atlanta. Kerri-Ann and I found each other at Spelman College. [Castleberry Hill] is our stomping grounds,” McGill says.

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Upcoming Filming Schedule Notice

 

Anchor Point – Feb 20 (daytime) and tentatively Mar 6 & 20

Click here for more info about filming in Castleberry Hill.

Please notify film@castleberryhill.org if you know of filming happening or have questions about filming in the neighborhood.

Castleberry Farmers Market: Starts April 19, 2021

We’re excited about the Farmers Market!

Support our local farmers, bakers and chefs and get fruit, veggies, cheese, artisanal bread, eggs, honey, coffee, ready-to-heat-&-eat foods plus a whole lot more! The market accepts EBT and doubles your coins with GF4L from WholesomeWave GA.

 

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Call for participants: Castleberry Hill Farmers Market!

We want to support our local farmers, bakers, and chefs to obtain veggies, meats, breads, and artisanal foods available in Atlanta for our community! 

We would like to start our Farmers Market this fall. And, we wish to have it weekly on Monday’s, 4-7pm. We chose this day of the week as there are no Farmers Markets locally on this day. There is no charge to be a vendor at this time. let us know if you are interested in becoming a vendor!

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Super Saturday!
June 22, 10AM -4PM

Kick off your weekend with some fun in the sun!

The Home Depot Backyard
1 Backyard Way

From DIY workshops to kids photography lessons – and even outdoor workout classes with your favorite instructors – we’ve curated cool activities for you and your friends. And the best part is… it’s all FREE!

Experience the #BestBackyard with a lineup of activities you won’t want to miss! Read more

Home Depot Backyard: Adult Recess May 22

Adult Recess: May 22nd 11:00AM – 2:00PM

Adults need recess too. Seriously, can you remember the last time you played outside?

At the #BestBackyard we work hard and play hard! Break away from the office for some midday fun and meet new friends who will feel like family. Food trucks, music and lawn games await you – and we promise you’ll make it back in time for your conference call.

Can’t join us for this one? Click Here to check out our programming schedule and mark your calendar for the next one.

Download the complete schedule here.

CHNA General Body Meeting, September 17, 7pm

Join us tonight at RCIE – The Russell Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (https://rcie.org) at 504 Fair St SW, Atlanta, GA 30313 (Fair & Northside) for the monthly (3rd Monday) meeting of the CHNA. With the new website work we are working on getting the agenda and minutes updated so they are not current, but join us! Would love to see a representative from each building there!

Location for social afterwards (approx 8pm) – TBD

Castleberry Hill Neighborhood Placemaking Coordinator

This new position with the Castleberry Hill Neighborhood Association (CHNA) requires an energetic, results-oriented professional enthusiastic about the potential of Castleberry Hill. As a community organizer, ability to manage complex issues and projects, work effectively with a variety of constituencies, interface with volunteers and build consensus among diverse stakeholders are essential skills. Passion for Placemaking and public spaces is a must.

The Neighborhood Placemaking Coordinator will focus his/her energies on improving the public spaces in Castleberry Hill, with a focus on connecting with Downtown and the Westside neighborhoods of Vine City and English Avenue as well as the AUC. Areas of emphasis will include improving connectivity between the neighborhoods, supporting the implementation of neighborhood Placemaking projects, and activating public spaces to enhance the overall environment. In many ways this position will act as both a public safety coordinator as well as a beautification coordinator since safety is linked to neighborhood beautification allowing for once unsafe areas to become useful, activated space.

By focusing on placemaking, beautification and safety, Castleberry Hill will be able to identify social entrepreneurship opportunities that can help residents, business owners and property owners and enhance the overall community.  The planning support the coordinator offers will help the CHNA develop business, marketing and communication plans for social entrepreneurship opportunities involving placemaking throughout the neighborhood.

More info and submission info here: https://castleberryhill.org/contactus/coordinator