• After reports of leaving this year, County announces its staying in Callaway until next year [Decaturish]
• Leon’s Full Service Warm Chickpea Salad recipe! [AJC]
• The Man Behind Atlanta’s BeltLine: ‘It’s Been Amazing’ [WABE]
• First Look: Proof Bakeshop, Inman Park [AJC]
• ‘You’ve Got a Hit’: How a James Taylor Album Finally Reached Number 1 [The Atlantic]

Photo courtesy of Google Streetview

After being boarded up for months, Scott Boulevard Baptist Church is being taken down this week.

The church and surrounding residential homes are being cleared from the site to make way for Fuqua’s Decatur Crossing development.  On Wednesday, the DeKalb County Commission approved Fuqua’s request to rezone site for mixed-use development.

Photo courtesy of Lauren

Feel free to use this post to make comments and ask questions about local issues not yet discussed here over the past week.

Audrey sends along this flyer and writes…

Tommy has been lost since last Tuesday the 16th. He was seen all over Oakhurst, Kirkwood and Midway Woods. Yet, last sighting was Friday the 19th am. City of Decatur police have been notified to help trap him. He loves children and other animals just skiddish around adults. Collar and tag from Pets Playhouse on Ponce with his name Tommy on tag. Please help bring Tommy home!!!

If you have seen Tommy, please call Melanie at 404-797-9512

From Google…

Hey Atlanta,

Have you seen us around town lately? We’re the ones with hard hats and dirt stains on our clothes.

Over the last few months, our team has been drawing up blueprints for our new fiber network in metro Atlanta. But that was just the start.

We’re doing some heavy lifting – literally – to bring Google Fiber to communities throughout Atlanta. There are crews working on the streets with boom trucks, tunnel boring machines, and rolls of cables as we form the foundation of our network.

We’ll be sure to let you know if we’re going to be doing construction near your home…

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West Ponce de Leon Ave, Decatur GA (pic submitted by FMFats)

The AJC is reporting the city is saying that DeKalb County employees will be out of the Callaway Building by November and the building could be demolished by the end of 2015.

However, the paper reports that construction of the large, mixed-use project that will take its place – which has long been rumored to include a grocery store – isn’t like to begin until “late 2016”.