A deal to purchase and renovate Underground Atlanta is expected to be completed within the next couple of weeks. The project would turn the area into a mixed-use development featuring apartments, a grocery store, movie theater, and retail. Any push to transform the historic location into a productive area from the dilapidated tourist trap it has become in recent years has its, and the city of Atlanta’s, ship RISING…
Taxpayers nervous about two Fulton Commission races
Georgia’s largest county– Fulton– has Democrat Mo Ivory running for County Commission chair. This year, she was the sole commissioner to vote for a tax hike. Now she has new spending plans that could cause property taxes to soar by 40 percent! Republican Bridget Thorne is challenging Ivory– and Thorne is endorsed by the outgoing Democrat chair because they oppose any hike. To stop the Democrats’ tax increase, Republican and retired IBM executive Paul Burton seeks to defeat Ivory ally Jodi Merriday in another Commission contest. The races could be close. DRIFTING….
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