Atlanta's 1 Hotel will be LEED certified

Condos and a stylish boutique hotel will be built in the center of Buckhead where partiers used to whoop it up into the wee hours of the morning.

Barry Hotel Partners and Starwood Capital Group Global LLC on Friday will jointly announce plans to develop 1 Hotel & Residences, a brand that's new to Atlanta.

1 Hotel will be a two-tower structure with a spa in the middle. One tower will have 175 hotel rooms topped by 48 condos; the other tower will house 50 condos.

1 Hotel will be LEED certified, meaning it will have to meet certain "green" building standards.—by Kevin Duffy, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Design steps up in disaster's wake

After Hurricane Katrina destroyed Karen Parker’s house on Division Street two summers ago, her first instinct was to leave her storm-ravaged hometown of Biloxi, Miss., behind. But she couldn’t bring herself to abandon two generations of extended family there, any more than she could see living indefinitely with her six children in their 10-foot-wide FEMA trailer. So, a few weeks after the storm, Ms. Parker decided to rebuild on her street.—by Allison Arieff, The New York Times