Pines que coinciden con place:Georgia

Frank Gordy opened the Varsity in 1928 beside Georgia Tech, and it grew into what it still calls the world's largest drive-in - two blocks of car park, a counter shouting What'll ya have, and chili dogs, onion rings and Frosted Orange by the ton on a football Saturday.

The CDC's weekly report carried five cases of Pneumocystis pneumonia in previously healthy young men in Los Angeles, two of them already dead. It is the first published account of what became AIDS, four years before the virus behind it was agreed on.

Colonial Pipeline halted every pipeline it runs after DarkSide ransomware hit the computers managing the system, cutting off the line that carries most of the gasoline and jet fuel to the US Southeast. The company paid a ransom of about 75 bitcoin, and fuel shortages and panic buying followed along the East Coast.

Georgia's Plant Vogtle Unit 4 entered commercial operation in April 2024, completing the first new nuclear reactors built from scratch in the US in over three decades.

MARTA started service on the Rapid A-Line, a five-mile route with 14 new stations linking downtown Atlanta to Capitol Gateway, Summerhill, Peoplestown and the BeltLine's Southside Trail, much of it in dedicated bus lanes. Construction continues along the corridor, with temporary stops standing in at five stations until final revenue service in the autumn.

Cosm opened a 70,000-square-foot, three-level venue built around an 87-foot 12K LED dome in Atlanta's Gulch, showing Game 4 of the NBA Finals on its first night. It is the first attraction finished inside Centennial Yards, the $5 billion, 50-acre redevelopment of the rail gulch between State Farm Arena and Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

El chef Myles Moody (Eleven Madison Park, Aska) y la sumiller Rachael Pack abren un restaurante sureño de temporada en una antigua hamburguesería de Atlanta.

Georgia Tech cut the ribbon on Tech Square Phase 3, a 416,500-square-foot complex of the 18-storey George Tower for the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the 14-storey Scheller Tower for the business school, joined by a shared lift core. Its first three floors had opened to the campus in January 2026.

A 23km highway bypass through Georgia's Khada Valley, including a record 9km tunnel, aims to replace a route to Russia that closes for weeks each winter.

The NFL championship game for the 2027 season is played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, the city's fourth Super Bowl and the second at this venue after Super Bowl LIII in 2019. CBS has the national broadcast.

The five-year UPS-Teamsters agreement covering some 340,000 workers expires on 31 July 2028, and the union's president has already said a strike is coming.

Hyundai's CES 2026 robotics strategy commits Boston Dynamics' Atlas to parts-sequencing work at Metaplant America in Georgia by 2028, after the humanoids are trained at the group's Robot Metaplant Application Center; assembly tasks are to follow by 2030.

Atlanta is rebuilding Concourse D in place, floating 19 prefabricated steel modules into position overnight to make the 1980s concourse about 60 percent wider and able to take larger aircraft while it keeps operating. Phase two began in January 2025 with the sixth module.