This year’s Creative Loafing neighborhood guide groups Decatur & Avondale Estates together. It consists of three parts:
Lawrenceville Hwy @ N. Druid Hills Rd (pic courtesy of Eric)
This week, City Schools of Decatur released their latest enrollment levels and projections for next year as part of Superintendent Phyllis Edwards’ letter to the board for next week’s meeting.
As you can see above, enrollment levels are projected to increase by nearly 400 students from this year to next. Then, yesterday, the Bill Banks of AJC reported that the Superintendent ” wants a joint meeting with the city government discussing the revival of three large apartment projects and their effect on city schools.”
According to the paper, “two developments totaling a projected 435 units figure to break ground next year, with a third, on the Callaway property, approximately two years away. Decatur schools anticipate total enrollment doubling to over 6,000 by 2018, but Edwards said these new apartments “don’t figure into our projections.” ”
An enrollment of 6,000 would be higher than CSD has ever encountered in its history. (See CSD growth chart from 2012 below.)
I’m guessing the 2018 projection assumes no deviations from current growth.
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Decatur High School parking lot, Decatur GA (pic submitted by Diane)
Who on earth knows how these lists are compiled, but free publicity is free publicity, right?
Travel + Leisure has named the much discussed and once quite controversial Decatur Square as one of “America’s Most Beautiful Town Squares” and manages to squeeze in at least one reference to Cakes & Ale.
Cities such as New London, Portsmouth and Oskaloosa also make the list.
From Tomorrow’s News Today…
Guy will also open Big Boss Chinese in Decatur later this fall. Big Boss, an ode to the 1971 Bruce Lee film of the same name, will feature authentic Cantonese cuisine in a full service restaurant. The kitchen will be helmed by Guy’s uncle who is relocating from China to open the restaurant. Guy will cook part time at Big Boss but will remain full time at Miso. The restaurant will also feature dim sum and other Chinese favorites.
Big Boss will be 2200 square feet and open near the intersection of Church Street and East Ponce de Leon Avenue. Guy hopes to have the restaurant open late this fall.
Intersection of Church and East Ponce? What’s available around there?
photo courtesy of Starchefs.com
