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Planners considering City Center design style BY ANN MARIE QUILL City officials and their development partners are sifting through comments from a public meeting and an online survey to come up with a design style for the City Center and the accompanying performing arts center. Mayor Rusty Paul says there will be one more set of public input meetings regarding City Center plans and then “we’ve got to make a decision.” Once final drawings are in, the city will be able to determine the center’s cost. Paul has said the City Center, a mixeduse downtown district, will be a catalyst for redevelopment of Roswell Road. The project does have critics, who say it’s gotten too big. At the latest public input meeting, resident PatGo to pages ty Berkovitz asked 26-27 for a why the projtimeline on how ect had gotCity Center ten larger in scope and planning has cost since an evolved initial study completed about three years ago. “When communities go out and spend the kind of money we’re talking about, you always have a fairly large number of people who get worried about how much is this going to cost, how are you going to pay for it,” Paul said at his recent State of the City address. “Those are legitimate questions.” But, he said, there’s also a “tremendous amount of excitement around it.” Paul cited a poll the city conducted that he says showed more than 60 percent of Sandy Springs voters in favor of the project. He said the number against it dropped to 8 percent when they found out the city would try to raise private funds for the project.
PHOTOS BY PHIL MOSIER
Left, Evangeline Gonzalez, 4, checks her Easter egg stash during the North Perimeter Optimist Club’s Egg Hunt event at Hammond Park on March 28. Right, the event, also sponsored by the Sandy Springs Recreation and Parks Department, gave youngsters aged 1-9 the opportunity to collect brightly colored eggs and visit with the Easter Bunny.
City issues permit for Glenridge Hall demolition BY ANN MARIE QUILL The executive director of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation calls it “extremely disappointing” that owners of Glenridge Hall took out a demolition permit for the historic mansion. Mark McDonald said the house should be saved for its historic and architectural value. “The house is an extensive work of architecture and is situated on a beautiful setting, representing an era of Atlanta growth and prosperity in the early 20th century,” he said. Sandy Springs city officials issued the permit on March 9. McDonald said the Georgia Trust in October placed Glenridge Hall on its list of “10 Places in Peril” after an announcement that the property was for sale SEE GLENRIDGE HALL, PAGE 6
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Glenridge Hall was placed on Georgia Trust’s “10 Places of Peril” in October.
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