According to several news sources Gwinnett County Developer Wayne Mason who owns the entire Northeast corridor of the beltline along with his Beltline partnership group have pulled their rezoning application from the city. In my opinion this is a huge loss for all of the citizens of the City of Atlanta.
The funny thing is with my experiences earlier this year this whole story comes as No surprise to me. Every meeting I attended furthers the comments by Roy Barnes about the City being asleep at the wheel. Imagine it… A sharp business man thinking he could come in and actually get something done???
Not gonna happen in Atlanta. No Sir!
Can we say Peter Principle?
More recent stories about the Beltline:
“He’s just like any developer,” Coyle fumes. “He makes threats, but he won’t carry through with them. It’s the [Atlanta] City Council that will say what’s appropriate. They’ll come up with some middle ground.”
Giles- I guess not Ms Liz Coyle, vice chairwoman of NPU-F
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Wayne Mason drops Beltline plans
Atlanta Business Chronicle - September 21, 2006by Jill LernerStaff Writer
City of Atlanta Buys it’s first piece of land on the Beltline (Watch Video)
“I’ll probably die putting together my last deal.” — Wayne Mason
October 11th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Creative Loafing’s “Protecting the Beltline”
It’s been three weeks since the mega-developers who proposed two condo towers overlooking Piedmont Park decided to walk away from the deal, throwing a serious wrench in Atlanta’s ambition to build a loop of transit and trails circling the city.
Did the Beltline negotiations actually fall apart because the city screwed up? Or did the city have no choice but to turn the Masons down?
Find out at atlanta.creativeloafing.com :
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A139077
June 20th, 2007 at 8:01 am
In your scurried effort to make profit and learn the details of land development, you demonstrate that you lack understanding of “new” planning, where the community actually has a say in what goes on in their neighborhood, not someone from Gwinnasia. This was a demonstration by the neighborhood of hate, and rightfully so. The people in the midtown area do not want to see a major piece of their neighborhood turn into another stale condo development, like the fabled metropolis. The city council is all these people have to protect them.
August 30th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Good riddance to this redneck, he belongs in Gwinnett where he can give “kick backs” to the council and carry on laying concrete.
October 1st, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Hey…What would I know I have only spent countless hours attending zoning meetings, Beltline community events, worked on projects on the Beltline… I stand by what I wrote…
Giles