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Emory University’s proposal to build a $1 billion “health innovation district” over the next 15 years on approximately 60 acres of Executive Park in Brookhav-
en has some residents living in nearby neighborhoods worried about cutthrough traffic and more congestion on such roads as Sheridan, Briarcliff and North Druid Hills. Emory officials say they are working to alleviate those concerns by con-
The Orchard at Brookhaven, an assisted living facility that specializes in caring for those with dementia, recently opened on Buford Highway, a large, yellow “pre-leasing” banner still hanging over its front entrance. Just yards from that front entrance is a dirt path that runs along Buford Highway, created over many years by people walking along the busy thoroughfare despite a lack of sidewalks. That dirt path is supposed to become a 10-foot sidewalk and a 5-foot landscape strip, a condition the city put on the developer when the property was rezoned two years ago to
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