06-9-17 Buckhead Reporter

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JUNE 9 - 22, 2017 • VOL. 11 — NO. 12

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New sign connects present to past

BY EVELYN ANDREWS evelyn@reporternewspapers.net

A new historical sign in Charlie Loudermilk Park gives visitors a window into Buckhead’s past. Installed by the Buckhead Heritage Society in late May, the sign displays a 1943 photograph of the nearby Buckhead Theatre aligned to overlap

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The Buckhead Heritage Society installed this sign, shown here on June 2, in Charlie Loudermilk Park, to show how the historic Buckhead Theatre (behind sign) looked in 1943.

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COMMUNITY Perimeter CIDs deliver on $10M promise Page 8

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OUT & ABOUT Pitch your tent at Dunwoody Nature Center Page 11

BCID shifts bike lane plan off Peachtree Road BY EVELYN ANDREWS evelyn@reporternewspapers.net The Buckhead Community Improvement District’s plan to add bicycle lanes on Peachtree Road from Maple Drive to Shadowlawn Avenue has changed. The BCID now plans to add the bike lanes down Maple Drive and connect them to existing bike lanes on Pharr Road. The change was announced at the BCID board’s monthly meeting on May 24. The reason given at the meeting was that appraised cost of right of way for

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