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JANUARY 2019 • VOL. 13 — NO. 1
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Darlington displacement impacts tenant-aid nonprofits BY JOHN RUCH
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An illustration of the Village Park Senior Housing project planned for Howell Mill Road.
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Two more major projects aim to join a senior housing boom in the area, one on Howell Mill Road and another in Brookhaven’s Lenox Park. Meanwhile, a massive expansion of an existing senior community, Canterbury Court, is headed for the city’s Zoning Review Board with an approval from NPU-B after a hastily arranged compromise with neighbors concerned about traffic, water runoff and new towers looming over back yards. They join such projects as the Peachtree Hills Place luxury senior housing along Peachtree Hills Avenue and an upcoming expansion of the Lenbrook senior community on Peachtree Road.
Village Park Senior Living
Village Park Senior Living aims to build a 600-unit, $300 million luxury housing project to the former West Paces Medical Center site at 3200 Howell Mill Road. A first phase of the project, dubbed Village Park Paces, is expected to open by fall 2020, See NEW on page 15
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The real estate firm that displaced hundreds of Darlington Apartments tenants for a “luxury lifestyle” renovation should pay the five-figure tab for social service workers who gave emergency assistance to tenants, a local nonprofit says. Meanwhile, the firm’s management division is a direct partner of another nonprofit that helps tenants — including those at the Darlington — avoid homelessness, in what the group’s director calls the “double-edged sword” of real estate companies’ charity sometimes being directed at problems they helped create. Buckhead Christian Ministry was hit with roughly $100,000 to $150,000 in unbudgeted costs to help more than three-dozen Darlington tenants, according to president and CEO Keeva Kase, who said that figure will rise with ongoing assistance. A couple of big donations from Piedmont Hospital and the Waterfall Foundation helped, he said, but not enough. “Thankfully, Buckhead has got resources,” Kase said. “But even still, the community shouldn’t be paying for these guys’ profits. Our churches, hospitals [and] nonprofits are subsidizing these … investment firms who are sucking money out of our community and displacing people in our back yards.” The 50-year-old Darlington tower at 2025 Peachtree Road is famous for its “Atlanta Population Now” sign and was long known See DARLINGTON on page 16
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