Beltline visionary and tech investor partner could overhaul aging West End Mall
If Gravel and Von have their way, the massive project would comprise affordable workforce housing, job training, small-business lending help, and a $10 to $15 million fund dedicated to bolstering local businesses.
SOURCE: Curbed Atlanta
Beltline visionary part of team seeking redevelopment of West End Mall
The West End proposal is a for-profit venture, but what Gravel and Von describe is an outlier in Atlanta’s build-and-flip real estate world.
SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Opinion: Gravel: The coming revolution will not be motorized
Gravel portrays this scene as part of a revolution, one as significant as the change triggered by the post war-boom that shaped a world around suburbs and cars. People want more than a lonely commute, and that desire will reshape our cities, he predicts.
SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The rise of Southwest Atlanta’s food scene
A BeltLine-inspired restaurant boom has created an important new food destination—but its main mission is to serve the locals.
SOURCE: Atlanta Magazine
Goodbye, Silicon Valley, hello, Atlanta: Black entrepreneurs part of new migration to South
For a growing number of African-Americans in the tech world, Atlanta is beckoning.
SOURCE: USA Today
D.C.-Based Opportunity Zone Fund Focused On Development Around HBCUs
Investors are utilizing the opportunity zone program to help spark the transformation of HBCUs’ neighborhoods around the country.
SOURCE: Bisnow
Ryan Gravel part of group eyeing purchase of The Mall West End
A mall in southwest Atlanta could get a new owner, just as the area sees a new wave of investment.
SOURCE: Atlanta Business Chronicle
Tristan Walker announces acquisition by Procter & Gamble, will remain as CEO and move company to Atlanta
Once a beacon for more minorities to join him in Silicon Valley, the former tech and media darling enters a deal that will help to secure his legacy—and P&G’s.
SOURCE: Fast Company