JUNE 9 - 22, 2017 • VOL. 8— NO. 12
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12-story hotel proposed near Perimeter Mall BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net Plans to build a 12-story hotel at 84 Perimeter Center East are being revived after nearly a decade. Representatives of Atlanta-based developer Branch Properties attended the June 4 Dunwoody Homeowners Association meeting to discuss proposed plans, first made in 2008, to build a hotel on the site of the vacant bank building across the street from Perimeter Mall and adjacent to the Exxon gas station on Ashford-Dunwoody Road. The project proposes a 12-story building, including a two-story parking deck, containing a 200-room hotel. Also part of the See 12-STORY on page 30
Miren, a Dutch shepherd rescue, gets some love from Brantly Kimball, 5, at the second annual Fast and the Furriest 5K June 4 at Brook Run Park. Events for runners, walkers and their dogs took a course from Brook Run Park to Pernoshal Park and back. The Fast and the Furriest 5K benefits Angels Among Us Pet Rescue, which has Miren up for adoption.
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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
Congressional race nears June 20 finish line BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net As the 6th Congressional District race nears a conclusion in the June 20 runoff election, Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel took their campaigns to local events in recent days — while accusing each other of not being publicly visible. Ossoff appeared at several events in Dunwoody and Sandy Springs. Those events included a block party at a Dunwoody neighborhood, a concert in Hammond Park in Sandy Springs and a “community conversation” at Sharon Community United Methodist Church in Sandy Springs. U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Atlanta) also campaigned for Ossoff, holding a small early-voting rally at the See CONGRESSIONAL on page 16
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