It was a year ago when the Atlanta Business Chronicle reported on the revival of the large, mixed use Avondale MARTA Station parking lot project that the City of Decatur has been pursuing from over a decade.

Now Decaturish reports that the MARTA Board of Directors recently voted to begin negotiations with the Decatur Downtown Development Authority of redevelop the site.  The two orgs have selected Columbia Ventures as the developer, which will include 604 apartments, 74 condos and 25,000 of retail space, according to Decaturish.

More HERE.

Map courtesy of Decaturish

From Superintendent Phyllis Edwards’ note to the Board in preparation for next Tuesday’s meeting…

Beacon Administrative Offices are coming along.  Thanks to Mary Farmer and Jason Ware for shepherding this process.  Mary Farmer and team are set to go over first to get technology going.  Then the Central Office team will move in shifts- first floor than second floor.  We hope to have the May Board Meeting in our new facility.