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OCTOBER 2020 • VOL. 14 — NO. 10
Sandy Springs Reporter AROUND TOWN
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North End shopping center review favors mixed-use, single-family homes
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This concept for the North River shopping center, a slight favorite of North End Revitalization Committee members, is high-density, but keeps buildings to six stories or shorter. A hotel on Roswell Road was proposed for each concept. The concept encourages some redevelopment of the Winding River condo community to the east of the property.
Cultural Center plan changes location BY JOHN RUCH AND BOB PEPALIS
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An $8.6 million Cultural Center proposed by the city in a bid to be home to a state Holocaust memorial has shifted to a new location at City Springs, lost two partner organizations intended to fund it, and may change its name. If its funding comes together, the center still would house an art gallery and the offices of the Georgia Commission on the Ho-
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locaust and its exhibit “Anne Frank in the World,” which is currently on display in a Roswell Road shopping center. But the Sandy Springs Perimeter Chamber of Commerce and Visit Sandy Springs, the city’s tourism bureau, have withdrawn from previous pledges to help fund the center and become tenants within it. And an See CULTURAL on page 20
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BY BOB PEPALIS The North End Revitalization Committee and residents have wrapped up a review of four shopping centers targeted by the city for redevelopment. Mixed-use remakes were a general point of agreement, though consultants say there’s little demand for new stores, and many residents called for single-family homes rather than multifamily buildings. The affordability of housing in such redevelopments has been part of the conversation, too. “We support the city looking to redesign the underutilized shopping centers,” said Melanie Noble-Couchman, who with her husband, David, successfully persuaded the city to take up affordable housing issues. “And adding more housing is greatly See NORTH on page 30
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