As you’re all food-truck obsessed, this seems like big news for many of you…

Darren at The Marlay writes in that their parking lot will host Decatur’s first street food event on Saturday, May 14th from 3-7:30pm, prior to Decatur’s Concert on the Square.

According to Darren, The Marlay will debut their own food truck, “Fish & Chips” at the event alongside other local street food trucks like Yumbii, Tex’s Taco, Grace’s Goodness, Westside Creamery and Tamale Queen.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but this should be Decatur locals’ first chance to get a good sampling from Atlanta’s street food movement, no?

Full disclosure: The Marlay House is a DM sponsor

On the agenda (page 58 of materials) for tonight’s Decatur City Commission meeting: awarding a $1,792,000 contract to D.A Edwards and Company of Atlanta for improvements to Decatur’s Fire Station #1.

The entire budget for the renovation is set at $2,340,000, which includes a 10% contingency $225,000 for new furniture, fixtures, etc, and $143,000 for LEED and construction administration services.

You may recall that  these projects are being paid for with partially federally subsidized Build America Bonds that the city took out late last year.

According to Deputy City Manager Hugh Saxon’s letter to the City Manager, D.A Edwards also recently built fire stations in Athens-Clarke County and Union City.  The building is being designed to meet LEED Silver – and perhaps LEED Gold – standards.

Mr. Saxon projects that the project will take between 10-12 months to complete.

From the soon-to-be rooftop garden of Cakes and Ale – Sycamore Street, Decatur GA (pic submitted by Kristin)

I took these pics a while back, not knowing whether this was old news or not, but this month’s Decatur Focus (not yet online) notes that the Task Force for Global Health will be expanding their location on Swanton Way starting this summer.   So I guess that means it’s pretty topical!  If I had just hunted on the Task Force’s website a bit, I would have found this…

On Monday, April 18, the Board of Directors for The Task Force for Global Health hosted a groundbreaking for the expansion of the organization’s headquarters building in Decatur. Dr. William Foege, Founder of the Task Force and Emeritus Member of the Board addressed the history and evolution of the Task Force. Decatur Mayor Bill Floyd, Georgia State Senator Jason Carter, and DeKalb County Commissioner Jeff Rader also addressed the assembly.

Here’s a close-up of the banner which shows a drawing of the new addition, which will replace the current parking deck along Trinity Place.

As the city works to build up the less-developed Trinity, this is certainly a step in that direction. After the jump, a pic of the existing parking deck, hidden by trees along Swanton Way.  And in case you’re curious, the current parking deck along Trinity looks like this.

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