Atlanta Club: METRO & GEORGIA IN BRIEF
NEIGHBORHOOD
ATLANTA: Club owners continue fight for liquor license. The owners of the Cotton Club have scheduled a Tuesday press conference to outline their plans for a legal fight to keep the Midtown live-music night spot open. Co-owners Mike Reeves and Dan Nolen, who have defied Mayor Manyard Jackson's order to stop selling liquor, said both they and their attorney will discuss the case at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Cotton Club, 1021 Peachtree St. N.E. The mayor's decision Friday to...
Atlanta Club: NBA KEEPS EYE ON KNICKS STRIP CLUB CASE
The NBA is awaiting more information before taking possible action following a report that strippers from an Atlanta club offered sex to New York Knicks players in Charleston, S.C., in 1997. The report Friday in the Daily News of New York quotes federal sources close to an investigation that resulted in an indictment of 16 people in Atlanta. The charges include prostitution, racketeering, money-laundering, loan-sharking and credit-card fraud."We're in touch with the...
Atlanta Club: DAF loses No. 1 spot
The Denver Advertising Federation lost its hold on the American Advertising Federation's Club of the Year Award last Friday. After five years at the top, Denver was ousted by the Atlanta club. However, the DAF won awards in five of seven categories for AAF clubs of 500 or more members: first place - communications, government relations and membership; second place - programming, and third place - club management."It had to be very, very close" between...
Atlanta Club: NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE WEEK
30024 Suwanee
Gwinnett-Forsyth area offers variety, convenience
If you bought a new home in Gwinnett County last year, it's a good bet you --- like 935 other buyers --- wound up in the 30024 ZIP code.The expansive area that spills over the Gwinnett line into parts of south Forsyth County led the metro area in the number of new homes sold in 1997, with 1,191 in both counties combined. In Gwinnett, a total of 1,298 properties changed hands at an average price of $181,334, an almost 10 percent increase over the previous year. In Forsyth, the...
