Atlanta’s newest park is finally here, as city officials gathered this week to celebrate the opening of Rodney Cook Sr. Park in Atlanta’s Westside. The state of the art park, which doubles as a stormwater runoff reservoir, is named after Atlanta Alderman, state Representative and civil rights advocate, Rodney Cook Sr. It features monuments to key Atlanta figures such as the late Rep. John Lewis, memorializing his legacy in the Vine City neighborhood where civil rights icons like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Julian Bond, and former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson once lived. A beautiful new park honoring the legacy of Cook and other Atlanta leaders has the city’s ship RISING…
State Farm Arena a box office draw
Downtown Atlanta’s State Farm Arena is quite the box office draw. How big? From October to to March, State Farm brought in $76.2 million across 60 events, making it the third-highest grossing venue in the entire nation, behind only New York’s Madison Square Garden and the Sphere in Las Vegas, and fifth globally. Nearly 600,000 visitors took in performances from superstars ranging from Blake Shelton to Usher, plus Hawks games and events like WWE Raw. State Farm’s status as one of the premier performance venues in the world is RISING…
