The city of Marietta is scheduled to begin a $1.3 million improvement project to the Square January 4, which will provide better service to businesses around the Square and beautify the downtown area. When complete, upgrades will include repaving the Square; replacing the water main under the parking spaces on North Park Square, West Park Square and South Park Square; brick crosswalks at all four intersections of the Square; replacing street poles with black better-looking poles; reducing the number of signs; and replacing existing parking signs.
Project planning
To help reduce the …

Cobb voters approved the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax in 2005 to fund important transportation and public safety projects. Since then, significant progress has been made in many areas, including transportation improvements and the new courthouse project.
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Substantial progress continues on the new courthouse, which will combine all of the county’s court services on one campus and allow Juvenile Court to move to downtown Marietta. Concrete slabs have been poured for the first five floors of the building and construction was completed on the storm water detention vault. Underground sewer …

Whatever you do, don’t dare park in one of the Manning Properties spots off the marietta square. They’ll gladly take your $50 or $125 when they tow your vehicle if you park in their ‘unmarked’ spaces behind Dupree’s. They claim each space is marked but that’s up for debate if you ask em.
Trust me, they took $50 from me today with no worries while I was trying to support a local business on the square. While they claim their spaces are ‘marked’ – a washed out yellow number on each …

Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue recently certified $1,048,000 to fund the city of Marietta’s streetscape improvements on Roswell Street from Lakewood Drive to Park Street as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
When complete, the project will include brick sidewalks, streetscape enhancements and pedestrian lights, city engineer Jim Wilgus said. “The project is already underway, and was originally funded by the Livable Centers Initiative (LCI) and special purpose local option sales tax (SPLOST) funds,” he said. “When it was selected as an ARRA project, the funding changed.” Wilgus expects …

This Atlanta Flood Picture is located at I-575 from the N. Bound view of the Dupree Road Overpass. That’s Exit #8 on I-575 – Town Lake Parkway. WOW! We’d love to see your pics – Submit your flood pictures to news @ whitlockavenue.com and we’ll post them for our readers in Atlanta and Marietta!
Special Thanks to jdawg0412 for the photos of the recent Atlanta Flood!