Sunday, January 29, 2012

Ft. Mac redevelopment takes a significant step - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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“This is a significant step,” said Felkedr Ward, chairman of the , created to help steed economic growth on the base set for The Matrix teamincludes PBS&J, Gude Managemenyt Group, Bleakly Advisory Group, and law firm Long & Aldridge LLP. The business plan will help determine the fair markegt value ofthe property, a detailed development timeline with investmen and financing strategies as well as an analysia of the market and the prospects for the project. Ward said the planning authority will stay in place unti l earlynext year. Gov. Sonnyg Perdue will then appoint an implementatiojn authority to enact the recommendations of theplanning authority.
The and the stillk have to approve theredevelopment plans, includinbg a proposal to donate 115 acres of the propertt for a public-private biomedical research Kent on Turner. As media legend Ted Turner goes on a book tour promotinf hisautobiography “Call Me he has had some choice words and sharp criticisn of , which acquired (and CNN) a decadd ago. Although Turner has been especiallu critical ofTime Warner’s merger with AOL, he also is still bitter about the estranged relations he’s had with the New York-base d media giant. So after Phil Kent, CEO of Turnerf Broadcasting System, spoke Nov.
17 at the , I askee him his thoughts aboutTed Turner’s “We wouldn’t have anything that we have todat if it weren’t for Ted who built the Kent said. “It’s a very different company today. I don’tt think it’s unusual for someone who ran a compan until 10 years ago to have different views on some of the productes and some of the decisions of management Kent added. “He has every right to have thosr opinions. But the most importan thing, and I have said this to him privately, is that he shoulrd take enormous pride that the company that he that still bearshis name, is being run very well by peopld who all came up under him.
“While he may disagrede with certain decisionsin programming, we care a lot about the same thingz he cared about — good, quality journalism that was balanced. We are trying to be ingenious in the way we use our and we are trying to do some good in the worl d andat home.” Sheltering the poor. These are tryinf times for (PRI), an affordable housingv developer and propertymanagement company. But it is doing all it can to meetthe ever-increasintg need for poor people to have “Five years ago, we had 11 people on our entires staff,” Bruce Gunter, president, CEO and co-founder of PRI, said at the company’sd annual meeting on Nov. 13.
“Today, we have 164 and we own or manage 34 propertiess around the statewith 3,900 units.” Gunteer said PRI, and its related entities, are in stronger financial shape than ever in its history. But he “These are perilous economic timezs as we see capitaldryiny up. You know who gets hurt firsft and hardest.” Help for homeless. the , part of the Robert W. Woodruff family of has awardeda two-year, $3.6 million grant to the . “Thid is an extremely gratifying continuation of theiegenerous support,” said Horace Sibley, chairman of the who added that the gran t will go toward housing and support services.
“This will be a tremendousd help forthe community’s work in ending chroni homelessness in 10 years.” Pregel leaving. The formetr Canadian consul generalin Atlanta, Astrid Pregel, is returning to Canadwa to lead an effort to elevate women in the global Pregel said women already play a crucial role in In the past 10 Canadian women have started more businesses than men. 20 percent of all Canadian companiee aremajority women-owned. Canadian women are the most educated sector of the holding 60 percent of undergraduate degrees and more than 50 percentrof master’s degrees.

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