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The Cobb Galleria Centre buzzed with activity on June 26 as about 125 mayors, city council members and county commissioners from across metro Atlanta gathered at ARC’s inaugural Regional Assembly…
(ATLANTA – February 3, 2025) Atlanta Regional Commission’s third Local Leadership Housing Action Committee (LLHAC) cohort recently announced their commitments to address housing affordability challenges in their jurisdictions. ARC created…
About 1,500 metro Atlanta leaders attended the Atlanta Regional Commission’s 2024 State of the Region event today to take stock of metro Atlanta and explore key regional challenges through the…
The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) is accepting public comment as part of its application for the HUD Pathways to Removing Obstacles (PRO) housing grant. This competitive grant allocates funds to…
(ATLANTA – January 18, 2024) The Atlanta Regional Commission announced last week that DeKalb County and the cities of Alpharetta, Brookhaven, Dunwoody, Johns Creek, Peachtree Corners, and Sandy Springs have…
Atlanta Regional Commission Board Chairman Andre Dickens today made officer and committee appointments for 2024 and outlined a regional agenda for the year ahead. The meeting marked Dickens’ first as…
The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) Board today elected Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens to serve as Chair of the Board of Directors. His two-year term begins on Jan. 1, 2024. Dickens…
About 1,500 metro Atlanta leaders gathered today to take stock of metro Atlanta and explore key regional challenges at the Atlanta Regional Commission’s 2023 State of the Region event. In…
2023 Regional Excellence Award Winners Recognized at State of the Region Today, the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Regional Excellence Awards recognized projects in metro Atlanta that exemplify cutting-edge, livable design that…
The Atlanta Regional Commission is taking public comment on a major update to the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP), which allocates $168 billion in federal, state, and local funding through 2050…
The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) on Thursday, October 19 will be coordinating a full-scale training exercise designed to prepare the region from a potential large-scale incident. Emergency responders from the…
The Atlanta Regional Commission today announced that Katherine Zitsch has been promoted to Deputy Chief Operating Officer. In this role, Zitsch will be responsible for coordinating special initiatives that span…
About 1,400 leaders from across metro Atlanta gathered today at the Atlanta Regional Commission’s 2022 State of the Region to take stock of metro Atlanta and explore key regional challenges,…
Metro Atlanta added 64,940 new residents in the past year, or 1.3%, pushing the region’s 11-county population to 5.1 million, according to 2021-2022 population estimates released today by the Atlanta…
Atlanta Regional Commission Chairman Kerry Armstrong today made the following officer and committee appointments for 2022: ARC Officers: Vice Chair – Rochelle Robinson (Mayor, Douglasville) Secretary – Romona Jackson Jones…
The Atlanta Regional Commission Board today voted to appoint Anna Roach as the agency’s next Executive Director. Roach has served as Chief Operating Officer for Fulton County since 2017 and…
More than 1,400 leaders gathered at the Atlanta Regional Commission’s State of the Region to explore the key issues facing metro Atlanta. ARC executive director Doug Hooker presented his final…
Doug Hooker, Executive Director of the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), today was named a winner of the 2021 President’s Award by the National Association of Regional Councils (NARC). NARC presented…
The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) today announced Georgia Power and Uber as the agency’s 2021 Annual Strategic Partners. The initiative is aimed at further engaging stakeholders in supporting ARC’s efforts…
Today, the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) announced that its executive director, Doug Hooker, will be retiring on March 31, 2022. Hooker began his tenure with the agency in November 2011…
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