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JANUARY 2019 • VOL. 11 — NO. 1
Brookhaven Reporter
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Ronald McDonald House planned for CHOA campus BY DYANA BAGBY
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This mural painted by Yehimi Cambron depicts portraits of Dreamers, or undocumented young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally when they were children. The mural is part of the “Off the Wall” public art project organized to highlight the city’s Civil Rights legacy when visitors come to the city for the Super Bowl.
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When tens of thousands of people flock to Atlanta for the Super Bowl next month, they will be greeted by dozens of colorful murals painted throughout the city that highlight the Civil Rights legacy. Two of the murals were painted by Cross Keys High School art teacher Yehimi Cambron, an artist willing to tackle controversy through her art by raising up the voices of undocumented immigrants. Cambron first made her mark in the
world of murals in 2017 with a colorful mural featuring large monarch butterflies on the side of the Havana Sandwich Shop on Buford Highway in Brookhaven. The mural was one of many murals painted on the sides of various businesses as part of a Living Walls and We Love BuHi collaboration to use public art to bring awareness to the immigrants living and working on Buford Highway. Cambron was selected to participate in the public art project in part because she is a “Dreamer,” a Deferred Action
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Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is seeking to build a Ronald McDonald House — a short-term residence for patients and their families — at its new 70-acre medical campus at the I-85 and North Druid Hills interchange. And with plans to open its new $1.3 billion hospital in 2025, state and federal officials are studying what to do at the crucial interchange already notorious for heavy traffic and congestion. CHOA officials say their wish is for a diverging diamond at the interchange to help with flow of traffic into the campus and surrounding neighborhoods. CHOA is investing $10 million in local match money for the interchange improvements. The Georgia Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration will have final say on what will be constructed at the interchange, but when a decision will be made is unknown, CHOA officials said at a Jan. 3 community meeting. They did say they expect work to be completed in time for the hospital’s opening in six years. CHOA recently announced plans to build an up to eight-story building or hotel at the site of the nearly 4-acre site of the former Executive Park apartments at 2580 Briarcliff Road. The Ronald McDonald House facility would include up to 150 rooms. The property is currently zoned multifamily residential (RM-85) and CHOA is asking it to be rezoned See RONALD on page 15
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