Smart Growth Atlanta, a collaboration of the Grant Park Neighborhood Association and South Atlantans for Neighborhood Development, will a “citywide conversation” about the ongoing battle over the 800 Glenwood Ave. property. The meeting will take place Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Zoo Atlanta ARC Building in Grant Park. For more information visit www.smartgrowthatlanta.org.

On Nov. 8, the Grant Park Neighborhood Association  and residents, Danny Leonhardt and Susan Walens, filed an appeal in Fulton County Superior Court regarding the Board of Zoning Adjustment’s Oct. 10 decision to deny the appeal against the City of Atlanta’s approval of Fuqua Development’s special administrative permit (SAP) for a big-box retail development, rumored to be a Walmart.

Collin Kelley is the executive editor of Atlanta Intown, Georgia Voice, and the Rough Draft newsletter. He has been a journalist for nearly four decades and is also an award-winning poet and novelist.