Despite MARTA's suburban defeat, however, its progress continued apace. After its establishment, MARTA purchased assets of the old Atlanta Transit System, a privately owned company that had operated bus routes in the city. With generous federal assistance and a 1 percent special sales tax collected in Fulton and DeKalb counties and the city of Atlanta, rail construction began in 1975.
Publish your University Ranking. Established in 1983, University of Advancing Technology is a for-profit private higher education institution located in the the urban setting of the large town of Tempe (population range of 50,000-249,999 inhabitants), Arizona.
The Innovation Crescent is becoming the hub of life science in the Southeast. When you consider that Athens is at one end of the crescent and Emory, CDC, and Georgia Tech are at the other end, you see that the City of Dacula is at the center of the Innovation Crescent. We are cradled between the important transportation routes of Georgia Highway 316, U. S. 29, and the CSX Railroad.