Invest Atlanta, the City of Atlanta’s economic development agency, and Friendship Baptist Church have made a bid to purchase Morris Brown College, which is going through bankruptcy proceedings. Invest Atlanta is contributing $9 million to the bid, while Friendship Baptist is contributing $3.625 million. “Our partnership with Friendship Baptist Church also ensures that a respected and historic institution is actively engaged in bringing positive community development and neighborhood revitalization to the West Side and the MLK corridor,” Mayor Kasim Reed said in a statement. “If we succeed in this bid, it will bring much-needed stability and cohesiveness to these communities as we embark on a determined effort to spur job creation, civic engagement and business investment to the historic neighborhoods of Vine City and English Avenue.”
On Monday, May 5, Atlanta Public Schools and Sodexo food service workers will ask the Atlanta Board of Education to terminate the contract of the system’s nutrition department director, Marilyn Hughes. Workers have been protesting dirty kitchens, broken equipment, expired food and pest infestations. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday at 130 Trinity Ave.
The largest high-rise residential project planned in Atlanta has the green light to go forward, according to a report from the Atlanta Business Chronicle. City planners approved a proposal for a $650 million trio of twisting towers at 98 14th St., the former “symphony center” site. The approval paves the way for OHM Atlanta LLC, a New York-based development group that includes Olympia Heights Management LLC and Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp., to acquire the roughly 4-acre site.
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