Midtown's Piedmont Park is a popular venue for cultural festivals in Atlanta Every spring when the native dogwoods are in bloom in Piedmont Park is the Atlanta Dogwood Festival an arts and crafts fair Piedmont Park is also the finish line of the Peachtree Road Race held annually on Independence Day as ground-zero for Atlanta arts community Midtown is home of the annual Atlanta Arts Festival which brings artists from across the country to Piedmont Park Piedmont Park is also the home of the Southeast's largest multicultural festival Festival Peachtree Latino which celebrates Hispanic-American culture with arts and crafts family activities sporting events a parade dance demonstrations ethnic foods and a live music stage featuring international performers from Mexico Puerto Rico Colombia Venezuela and the Dominican Republic Midtown is also the home of Atlanta's major music festival Music Midtown which was revived in 2011 after a five-year hiatus At the corner of 8th Street and Spring Street near the Midtown MARTA station Midtown also hosts the Peachtree Music Festival a one-day two-stage music festival blending indie rock bands with electronic DJs in the fall the Atlanta Pride festival attracts the LGBT local and regional community while the week-long Out on Film gay film festival highlights films by for and about the LGBT community. O 2011 2,372,940 30,037 60.4% 15th 20th Fuchs lost control of the team in August 1935 and the new owners tried to change the team's image by renaming it the Boston Bees This did little to change the team's fortunes After five uneven years a new owner construction magnate Lou Perini changed the nickname back to the Braves He immediately set about rebuilding the team World War II slowed things down a little but the team rode the pitching of Warren Spahn to impressive seasons in 1946 and 1947.
. . 52 101, 2.4 Flora 1960 3,943,116 14.5% 2010 420,003 0.8%, Athens 51/11 In its first decade Amtrak fell far short of financial independence which continues today but it did find modest success rebuilding trade Outside factors discouraged competing transport such as fuel shortages which increased costs of automobile and airline travel and strikes which disrupted airline operations Investments in Amtrak's track equipment and information also made Amtrak more relevant to America's transportation needs Amtrak's ridership increased from 16.6 million in 1972 to 21 million in 1981. District 3 Lee Morris Republican Field hockey (2) Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has three cargo complexes that include two million square feet of space; the airport moves over 650,000 tons of cargo annually it has nearby cold storage for perishables and is the only airport in the Southeast with USDA-approved cold-treatment capabilities Delta Air Lines also offers an on-airport refrigeration facility for perishable cargo and a 250-acre Foreign Trade Zone is located at the airport. .
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