September 2020 - Sandy Springs Reporter

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SEPTEMBER 2020 • VOL. 14 — NO. 9

Sandy Springs Reporter

EDUCATION GUIDE FALL 2020

►VIRTUAL SCHOOL YEAR BEGINS

►Q&As WITH LOCAL SUPERINTENDENTS

Pages 22-30

City shares concepts to redevelop North End shopping center WORTH KNOWING

Theater groups aim to stage pandemic comebacks P18 AROUND TOWN

Georgia Audubon spreads its wings P19 COMMENTARY

Basic needs of teachers and students must be met P16

CITY OF SANDY SPRINGS

BY BOB PEPALIS

The potential for a scenic vista can be seen in this existing site plan for the Northridge shopping center, along with its unusual shape and configuration that doesn’t front on Roswell Road. Access to both Roswell and Northridge roads is shown.

Episcopal school buys shuttered church BY BOB PEPALIS

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Brookhaven’s St. Martin’s Episcopal School has purchased the shuttered Highpoint Episcopal Community Church and is seeking to use it as a school or daycare. The COVID-19 pandemic has stalled plans to continue the process in trying to get a special use permit for the new use of

the property at 4945 High Point Road. “In the short term, it falls in line with what that space has been used for in the past. It served the community, it served young families on and off. And we are going to continue to do the same,” said Luis Ottley, head of school for St. Martin’s. See EPISCOPAL on page 20

Sandy Springs’ Northridge Shopping Center could be remade as a mixed-use community ranging from 58 to 718 housing units and buildings three to 10 stories tall, according to redevelopment concepts presented by consultants in a virtual meeting on Aug. 13. The presentation to the North End Revitalization Advisory Committee was the first of four such concepts for shopping centers along Roswell Road commissioned in December by the city as part of its quest to spark redevelopment of the North End. Stated goals for the North End include: ■ Ensure a variety of housing options to accommodate all types of residences. See CITY on page 21

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