Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Neighborhoods Two development teams competing for Fort McPherson redevelopment
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM
- Joeff Davis/CL File
- SECOND LIFE State authority thinks massive former military base in southwest Atlanta could become bioscience research facility and mixed-use development
Rhonda Cook says the first team includes Cousins Properties, the Integral Group and Forest City Enterprises. Competing against the trio is a joint venture between Carter and H. J. Russell & Co.
The state authority tasked with guiding the historic base's redevelopment is keen on seeing the 488-acre property, which for nearly 100 years has been closed off to most non-military personnel, into a mixed-use development anchored by bioscience research facility. The base was vacated late last year but is still owned and controlled by the army. (David Pendered has a good round-up on the base's future, especially considering the piss-poor economic climate.)
Look for a committee to be named next week to evaluate the proposals, Cook says. We're seeing what kind of details we can get our hands on about the proposals.
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On the south side and served by existing MARTA heavy rail. This is where growth needs to go.
The 1% uber* regressive sales tax does nothing to encourage that this site gets developed fully and in a transit/pedestrian fashion.
Actually the 1% uber regressive sales tax represents a government subsidized competitive threat to Fort McPherson because it provides more access greenfields on the northside and encourages the northern march of our center of population.
*uber because a sales tax is regressive, a sales tax on groceries is even more regressive and a sales tax on groceries that exempts that doles out tax breaks to the wealthy such as exempting that portion of a car sale above $5,000 is uber regressive.
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