NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN

Each January, we feature students from Intown’s public schools, private schools and colleges who have given back to their community in a significant way. Over the last seven years, we’ve featured students who have created their own nonprofits, have given up summer vacation to work domestically and abroad to help the less fortunate and one even helped build a library by collecting books.

The 10th annual 20 Under 20 will appear in our January 2018 issue and we are now seeking nominations of students ages 19 and younger who have committed themselves to service to the community. Nominations are welcome from teachers, counselors, administrators, parents, siblings, fellow students or community leaders. Here’s the information we need:

• Nominator (name, relationship to nominee and contact information)

• Nominee (Name, age, grade, school, parent or guardian names, contact information)

• Characteristics and service: Please provide a paragraph describing why this nominee deserves recognition. Include service projects, goals, interests and areas of interest to help illustrate your point.

The deadline for nominations is Nov. 15. Please email your nominations to editor Collin Kelley at collin@atlantaintownpaper.com.

Real Estate Briefs

Post Midtown Atlanta is now open near Piedmotn Park and only steps away from MARTA. The development itself includes studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments and features 332 units with 32 different floor plans. Units start at $1,670 per month.

Trinity Walk is now open in downtown Decatur, replacing the old Gateway Manor and Oakview apartment complexes. The apartment community at 421 West Trinity Place is fully occupied and boasts 121 one, two and three-bedroom energy-efficient apartment flats and townhomes in six contemporary, three-story buildings. Thirty-two of the apartments were created for the elderly and/or disabled, while the remaining 89 units were designed for families.

Veteran Realtor Ken Altshuler has joined RE/MAX Metro Atlanta, Inc. He originally became a licensed real estate agent in Florida in 1982 and has real estate in his blood: His father was a developer and his mother owned a residential firm. While he focuses on single family homes, condos and townhomes in intown neighborhoods like Virginia-Highland, Morningside and Midtown, he also serves clients in other Metro neighborhoods and cities, like Sandy Springs.

Laura R. Rittenberg has been named president of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Atlanta. In this position, Rittenberg will oversee the daily operations of the company’s 11 real estate offices and more than 850 affiliated sales agents and employees serving the Greater Atlanta metro. Rittenberg most recently served as the president of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage on Long Island in New York with direct oversight of 13 real estate offices doing business throughout Nassau, Suffolk and Queens counties. Under her direction, the company boasted more than $1.4 billion in total sales volume in 2016.

Jenny Pruitt , founder and CEO of Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty , was honored as one of Atlanta’s “Most Admired CEOs” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle for Residential Real Estate. At a formal dinner and ceremony at The Foundry at Puritan Mill in Midtown, Pruitt was saluted for her leadership of the real estate company, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this summer. Also honored as Residential CEOs were Jim Borders , President and CEO of Novare Group , and Kevin Palmer , CEO of PalmerHouse Properties