OCT. 28 - NOV. 10, 2016 • VOL. 10 — NO. 22
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Perimeter Business ► Filmmaking frenzy hits northern arc PAGE 4 ► Buyers line up for farms, sport estates PAGE 6
Buckhead master plan aims to please millennials BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net
A-maze-ing fall fun PHIL MOSIER
Jack Story, a third-grader at Sarah Smith Elementary School, wins the large-scale 3D Sphere Puzzle Maze Labyrinth Ball Game at the school’s Oct. 22 Fall Festival. Kids enjoyed carnival games, an obstacle course and a Dancing Dome. More photos, page 13.►
STANDOUT STUDENT Andi Rozelle
Holy Spirit Preparatory School, senior
Our system is so decentralized in the United States... it is the most improbable country in the world to attempt rigging an election. Rigging talk is irresponsible and ignorant in those terms. Richard Barron
Fulton County Elections Director
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Buckhead’s new master plan will aim to please well-off millennials with better public spaces, transportation and housing, organizers said at an Oct. 17 kickoff meeting at the Atlanta International School. Branded as “BUCKHEAD REdeFINED,” the planning process for Buckhead’s commercial core drew about 90 people to hear market statistics and weigh in with improvement ideas. The process also folds in previous independent plans to improve the Lenox Road streetscape and for a possible park capping Ga. 400 between Lenox and Peachtree Roads. “We want to point out a little bit of the obvious — Buckhead is a district in transition,” said Eric Bosman of Kimley-Horn, the company contracted by several civic and business groups to conduct the master plan. Part of that transition is from a car-oriented shopping area to a home for apartSee BUCKHEAD on page 15
OUT & ABOUT Historic mansion MJCCA Book Festival makes a quiet Nov. 5-20 Page 17 return to 1930s
glory days
BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net
The twin rooster statues were half-buried in dirt behind the historic Thornton House at 205 West Paces Ferry Road when Dr. Robin Fowler discovered them. He rescued the statues, only later learning they may have once stood atop a decorative entrance gate designed, like the mansion itself, by Philip Trammell Shutze, a celebrated Atlanta architect best known for the Atlanta History Center’s See HISTORIC on page 14