OCTOBER 13 - 26, 2017 • VOL. 9 — NO. 21
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► Major buildings rise in construction boom time PAGE 8 ► Food & Drink: Q&A with Pontoon Brewing’s CEO Sean O’Keefe PAGE 10
Tuskegee Airmen descend on PDK
Mall owners say no to city’s Amazon HQ2 bid BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net
Brookhaven is one of numerous cities across the country trying to come up with a sales pitch strong enough to lure the $5 billion new Amazon headquarters dubbed HQ2 to its location. But city officials apparently hit a snag when the owner of Northeast Plaza on Buford Highway, a site they considered prime real estate for the massive development, said it was not interested. “We are supportive of the city of Brookhaven’s plans to attract a great See MALL on page 17
COMMUNITY This girl’s a natural behind the wheel
Prayer with no corresponding action is a useless and vain exercise. ...What will make us safer is ordinary people like you and I, from every political stripe, finding the courage to act.
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BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net
Brookhaven Innovation Academy, a state charter school founded by the city, is planning to make its permanent home in Chamblee and likely will drop the word “Brookhaven” from its name. BIA board members announced Sept. 27 at a community event at Oglethorpe University that the charter school has contracted to buy 2.5 acres at 3031 Shallowford Road. Plans are to build a K-8 school on the site and open it no later than August 2019.
Rev. Robert C. Wright Episcopal Bishop of Atlanta, on the Las Vegas massacre
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Brookhaven Innovation Academy plans OUT & ABOUT Thrills & chills: Your move to Chamblee
Dr. Harold Brown, 92, left, and Robert Friend, 97, stand in front of the North American P-51C Mustang plane they flew in combat in World War II, on display Oct. 7 at the fourth annual Atlanta Warbird Weekend at DeKalbPeachtree Airport. Brown and Friend were members of the Tuskegee Airmen, a pioneering program to train African American pilots and ground crews in the then segregated U.S. military. See more pictures on page 30 ►
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