He's already the brewmaster when it comes to craft beers. Now the co-owner of the 5 Seasons Brewing Co. is hoping to do to pizza what he's done with beer. Crawford Moran, brewmaster at the 5 Seasons, which has three spots in Metro Atlanta, including the city's westside, is opening a new venture in Emory Village called Slice & Pint. The concept behind the eatery, which is slated to open in June, is to do to pizza what he's done to beer. "Our goal is to do a higher quality pizza," Moran told Virginia-Highland Patch of the planned eatery at 1593 North Decatur Road. To that end, Moran and his …

After a few years of a hard market in the commercial real estate space, there's noticeable uptick in activity as several new projects have come online and several more are in the planning stages. Among them: The 23-story planned tower for the Centergy complex. The office tower at 12th and West Peachtree streets. The 17-story high-rise on Spring Street. The luxury high-rise at Peachtree and 7th streets. Midtown Patch sat down recently with Michael Bull, the prinicpal and managing broker of Bull Realty, to discuss changes in the Midtown and Buckhead commercial corridors and how the commercial …

A Midtown-based company is developing a line of mobile apps geared toward African American kids with an educational focus aimed at making learning fun. Lucy Holified, who is chief executive of Identity Kids LLC, said despite the explosive rise of digital and mobile content in terms of apps across a host of sectors, the market for educational and entertaining interactive games for African American kids remains largely unfilled in the $38 billion apps market. “I believe the timing is right to leverage our unique content to serve a market that has been largely overlooked,” Holifield told Midtown…