The Red Bull Showrun will descend upon Atlanta's Summerhill neighborhood on Saturday, but some residents are concerned about how the event will impact the community.

Why it matters: The Showrun will take over Hank Aaron Drive between Fulton Street and Georgia Avenue, making a major north-south thoroughfare in the neighborhood inaccessible to those who live and work in the area.

The latest: Red Bull's event starts at 5pm, allowing fans to "see, hear and feel Formula 1 right on their city streets," Red Bull said, noting that attendees will be able to see high-speed demos, burnouts and precision driving.

What they're saying: John Helton, president of Organized Neighbors of Summerhill, said the community's Neighborhood Planning Unit voted to recommend denial of the event's permit over concerns about crowd control, street closures and security.

• Cheron Pitchford, executive director of the Summerhill Neighborhood Development Corp., told WSB-TV the event could be "positive" for the community if it's organized with residents in mind.
• "It can be a good time, but make sure that you're managing it in a way that makes sure it doesn't overflow into us having issues later," she said.

Flashback: Helton said he also hopes Atlanta can avoid what happened in February when Red Bull's event was held in San Francisco.

• An estimated 40,000 people packed the designated area, but since there were no bleachers, visibility was limited for those who weren't in the front row.
• Videos shared to Instagram showed people climbing trees, utility poles, private balconies and even roofs to get a good view of the action.

The other side: Axios has reached out to Red Bull for comment.

State of play: MARTA riders who rely on the agency's Rapid A-Line service will have to adjust their schedules.

• Some stations along Hank Aaron Drive will be temporarily moved or unavailable. Signage will be posted to direct users to temporary bus stops, MARTA said in a statement.
• This detour, which went into effect Wednesday night, will end 6pm Sunday.

What we're watching: If there will be any bleachers or stands installed.

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🎞️ Atlanta Chinatown hosts a special screening of director Park Chan-wook's classic action film Oldboy as part of the Lotus Lens film series. (Thurs.)

⚾️ The Braves host the Nationals for a four-game series highlighted by an Andruw Jones Hall of Fame bobblehead giveaway and a celebration of the 1996 Summer Olympics. (Thurs.-Sun.)

🪩 Synthwave producer Com Truise brings a retro-futuristic electronic set to Aisle 5. (Fri.)

🍽️ More than 40 restaurants participate in Buckhead Restaurant Week. (through Sat.)

🕹️ Southern-Fried Gaming Expo brings more than 400 classic arcade and pinball games to the Marriott Renaissance Waverly. (Fri.-Sun.)

🎸 Indie-pop favorites Passion Pit play The Eastern. (Sat.)

🏎️ The 12th annual Cool Dads Rock Soap Box Derby raises money for father support programs at Historic Fourth Ward Park. (Sat.)

🧑‍🎤 Terminal West hosts Golden, a noontime K-Pop kids dance party. (Sun.)

Georgia has one of the nation's highest net losses in hospitals over the past two decades, according to a new tool developed by the Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale.

Driving the news: While hospital closings play an outsized role in health policy debates, a new tracking tool shows that for every 10 U.S. facilities that shut from 2001 to 2023, eight opened.

What they found: Between 2001 and 2023, 644 U.S. hospitals closed and 502 opened — a net loss of 142 hospitals, according to the hospital markets tool, Axios' Tina Reed and Maya Goldman report.

• Over the same period, hospital beds per thousand residents dropped by over 20% from nearly three beds to just over two.

California, Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan have had the highest net losses of hospitals over the period.

• Between 2001 and 2023, the lab researchers say, 8 hospitals opened in Georgia and 25 closed. In that same time period, Georgia's hospital beds per thousand residents fell from 2.9 to 2.1 — a 26% decline.

Zoom out: It's difficult to clearly track market changes at the local level. The task will become more important as changes from last year's sweeping Republican tax-and-spending package ripple through the health system.

Caveat: The tool doesn't yet have a full summary on openings over the past three years.

Between the lines: Closures have weighed heavily on facilities with narrow margins that are heavily reliant on public programs, typically in rural areas.

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