General Motors Doraville Plant (Doraville, GA)
By Thom Abbott, Midtown Atlanta GA Condos For Sale
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Doraville Assembly Site Needs TADWe all know that the future of our society always rests in the hands of our children. We have done good things and bad things up to this point. It will be up to the children and young adults behind us to continue good work, create new ideas, and in some cases fix some wrongs we have done. The key to this success is that kids have a good, great, fantastic enviornment in which to learn. That enviornment comes with excellent school facilities, lead by fantastic teachers. Yet the future development of the Doraville Assembly site seems to rest on the very people that are "somewhat" in charge of that success....the Dekalb County School Board. There seems to be this continued notion that to support a tax allocation district (TAD) will take money away from the s...
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By Thom Abbott, Midtown Atlanta GA Condos For Sale
(MyMidtownMojo.com |770.713.1505 | Intown Atlanta GA Condo Living)
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By Thom Abbott, Midtown Atlanta GA Condos For Sale
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It's been a long time coming...since the Doraville GM plant closed in 2008. Everyone thought a new Atlantic Station-type development would quickly follow.  The real estate market had other ideas. And I've made numerous posts about the Doraville GM Plant!  But 2014 appears to be the beginning of the end of this massive 160+ acre site sitting vacant. Egbert Perry of Integral Group is heading up a development group that includes Roswell, GA based Macaule+Schmit as a development partner. Perry is one of Atlanta's best-know developers, and earlier this year was named Chairman of Fannie Mae. He's served on the Board since 2008.  A true transit-oriented project could rise with a MARTA transit station along one side, and sitting next to I-285 and I-85, visions of a much improved Atlantic Statio...
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By Thom Abbott, Midtown Atlanta GA Condos For Sale
(MyMidtownMojo.com |770.713.1505 | Intown Atlanta GA Condo Living)
The City of Doraville held its breath as the General Motors Plant closed in 2008 and the real estate market also kind of closed up. Since that time, the parking lot has collected a few weeds (actually a lot of weeds) and the City of Doraville has  burned through a bank account surplus as it failed to reign in spending. But there might be headlights, or building lights shining in the future. Atlanta developer and civic leader Egbert Perry is leading a team that may be close to striking a deal to purchase the property. And Dorvalle probably could not ask for a better steward....Perry's company Integral Group, LLC has developed other mixed use projects, and Perry himself is Chairman of the Central Atlanta Progress, the group in charge of the Downtown Community Improvement District. The GM ...
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By Thom Abbott, Midtown Atlanta GA Condos For Sale
(MyMidtownMojo.com |770.713.1505 | Intown Atlanta GA Condo Living)
Doraville, Georgia is trying to plan for the future...as hard as that may be in these economic times. But we all know the importance of a plan. The Planning Team, lead by Tunnell-Spangler-Walsh and Associates laid out the long term plans for the Town Center of Doraville, and of course, the crown jewel...the currently shuttered General Motors Plant. The final presentation was held last week to a small crowd of city officials and local residents. (Unfortunately, I missed this meeting!) The story was featured (briefly) in the AJC Can you just imagine this...... Becoming THIS.....   I've known about the closure of this plant since it was announced in 2005, and then when General Motors announced the sale of the Doraville Plant. And since that time, I've written several articles about the pla...
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By Thom Abbott, Midtown Atlanta GA Condos For Sale
(MyMidtownMojo.com |770.713.1505 | Intown Atlanta GA Condo Living)
Doraville GM Plant Does Not Get Clean Up Funds As you know, I've written several posts about this incredible piece of land, located just 8 miles from Downtown Atlanta, AND has the Doraville MARTA train station almost adjacent to it. Unfortunately, due to the current economic climate, there are no Buyers for this 160+ acre site! So, it just sits there for now, the parking lot filling with weeds. Sad. It was reported sometime back that the Doraville GM Plant Would Not Get Clean Up Funds. A $773 million trust fund had been set up when GM went bankrupt and left plants behind. They kept Tarrytown, NY ( I use to work by this plant at the Tarrytown Hilton - now a Doubletree) and the Doraville (Atlanta) GA site because of the great potential they represent for redevelopment.  Here is a link to ...
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By Thom Abbott, Midtown Atlanta GA Condos For Sale
(MyMidtownMojo.com |770.713.1505 | Intown Atlanta GA Condo Living)
Doraville GM Plant Talks Continue Talking is a good thing. It can lead to results. Representatives from Dekalb County and General Motors had more meetings as the Doraville GM Plant waits for a buyer and an economy worthy of a development of this size! The AJC reported that these talks happened this week, but there are no proposals on the table. I've written about this huge development potential numerous times....as you can see from the picture...it's a pretty big piece of land located smack dab in the middle of the Atlanta area! The black outline (forgive my unsteady hand!) indicates the location of the land...some 165 acres! You can see it's located right along I-285 where thousands and thousands of cars pass daily....perfect from some low-rise office type buildings along the freeway t...
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