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BY JOHN [email protected]

Construction on the massive I-285/Ga. 400 interchange project now is expected to begin in mid-October, state Department of Transporta-tion project manager Butch Welch said at the June 14 meeting of the Buckhead 50 Club.

Welch and GDOT communications man-ager Jill Goldberg gave an update on the I-285/Ga. 400 project, slated to wrap up in mid-2020, at American Legion Post 140 in Chas-tain Park. The project remains the same, but

I-285/Ga. 400 interchange work starts in October

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BY JOE [email protected]

They can see change is coming. Giant cranes already tower above one end of Irby Avenue. Developers are making plans to build other new apartments and shops nearby, and vacant storefronts dot the area some call Buckhead’s “West Village.”

“I’m sure something is going to happen,” said Shana Pope, manag-er of the Five Paces Inn, a tavern she says has operated on Irby Avenue since 1955.

But she and some of the regulars at Five Paces hope their spot will re-

ABOVE, PHIL MOSIER; FAR LEFT AND LEFT, JOE EARLE

Far left and top, construction around Buckhead’s “West Village” stretches from the 3100 block of Roswell Road near the Buckhead Theatre to the corner of Irby Avenue. Left, Shana Pope, manager of the Five Paces Inn on Irby Avenue, hopes the tavern has an opportunity to stay.

The most important issues at hand encompass many sectors: affordable housing, prevention of gentrification, affordable healthcare access and gun control.29-year-old Buckhead woman on the top issues presidential candidates should address See COMMENTARY Page 10

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Officials protest ‘Buckhead’ hotels that aren’t in the neighborhoodBY JOHN [email protected]

Buford Highway hotels listed online as “located in Buckhead” are the latest battleground in Buckhead’s seemingly never-ending effort to brand itself as At-lanta’s most prestigious neighborhood.

Sam Massell, the former Atlanta may-or and current Buckhead Coalition pres-ident, said it’s “misleading advertising” to say hotels outside the city limits are in Buckhead. He said that’s “unfair” to guests who might “stay at a hotel think-ing they’re in Buckhead and wake up the next morning and see a cow pasture in-stead of a skyscraper.”

One of those hotels is the Red Roof Inn PLUS+ At-lanta-Buckhead, which is actual-ly in Brookhaven. Red Roof spokesper-son Andrea Thomp-son said the hotel doesn’t think it’s a big deal to stick a nearby neigh-borhood into the lengthy name. “Our Buckhead proper-ty…wanted to pro-vide a great eco-nomic lodging option in this market as they are no more than five miles away from the neighbor-hood,” she said.

The Buckhead Coalition, however, has long fought what might be called Buck-head creep—adjacent areas taking on the name associated with fine houses, wealthy residents and high-end shops.

In the 1980s and ’90s, the coalition commissioned a demographic study to draw up a map of Buckhead and got es-sentially officially-unofficial boundaries approved by the Georgia House of Repre-sentatives and the Atlanta Regional Com-mission. More recently, it even commis-sioned a Buckhead flag.

The lines have mostly stuck, though the Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods has admitted a few outside neighbor-hoods into its fold.

“The brand name, of course, is very important to Buckhead,” said Massell.

Back in the era of telephone books, Massell said, “I looked up businesses that had Buckhead in the name that were no-where near Buckhead. We wrote them all letters saying it was misleading advertis-ing.” Some changed their names, he said.

Then there was the 1990s Olympics tourism grudge match with Buckhead, Ga., a city that is a dot on the map about 60 miles east of Atlanta on I-20. Massell said Buckhead and the city get along well

now—the coalition even sent the city a Buckhead flag—though he couldn’t re-sist a little dig.

“They’ve got a little general store that sells fish worms and bologna sandwich-es—next to each other,” he said dryly. “I don’t think you can buy gasoline out there. I think you can buy kerosene.”

The current hotel issue is focused on Expedia.com, an online booking service that labels several Buford Highway ho-tels as “located in Buckhead.” It’s appar-ently boilerplate language Expedia decid-ed to use. The hotels have names that are long mouthfuls, citing locations like I-85 and Emory University, but in their own listings most do not claim to be in Buck-

head.The issue came

up in May at a meet-ing of the Buck-head Hotel Coun-cil—a group of local hotel managers—where Expedia of-ficials happened to be making a pre-sentation. Repre-sentatives from the coalition and the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau complained of the “Buckhead” misuse,

and the Expedia officials reportedly said they will take some sort of action. Expe-dia did not respond to emails.

Heather Kirksey, a spokesperson for the Convention & Visitors Bureau, said its representatives “expressed our com-pany opinion that listing hotels, restau-rants and attractions in their known geo-graphic areas helps customers make the most informed decision about the loca-tion.”

The southern part of Buford Highway is in Buckhead, and before Brookhav-en incorporated in 2012, its section was long known as “East Buckhead,” accord-ing to Terri Moss, who runs a Brookhav-en boxing business called the Buckhead Fight Club. “The name Brookhaven feels more like a suburb, whereas Buckhead feels more like a trendy part of Atlanta,” she said.

Massell acknowledges there is no measurable damage done to Buckhead hotels by the loose use of the name, and he says he didn’t realize the controversial Expedia entries were all along Buford Highway. “I don’t want to paint a negative picture about Buford Highway,” he said, adding it’s all about the Buckhead brand.

“We have to be honest with our-selves—that’s an odd name, ‘Buckhead,’” he said. “We work very hard branding that word ‘Buckhead.’”

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Back in the 1980s and ‘90s, the Buckhead Coalition ordered a demographic

study to draw up a map of the area. It recently commissioned a flag, above.

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Atlanta City Council votes to put MARTA sales tax on November ballot BY COLLIN KELLEY AND JOHN RUCH

Atlanta City Council has voted to call for a public vote in November to decide wheth-er MARTA should collect an extra half-cent in sales taxes to pay for expansion projects.

The list of projects to be financed through the tax includes light rail and bus plans for Buckhead, including:• A new Armour Yard rail station on the

Gold and Red Lines. Armour Yard, at Piedmont Road and I-85, currently has a MARTA maintenance facility.

• BeltLine light rail. Buckhead’s segment of the BeltLine would run between Ar-mour Yard and I-75 along Peachtree Creek, the Shepherd Center and Pied-mont Hospital.

• Clifton Corridor light rail. This new line would run from Buckhead’s Lindbergh Center Gold/Red Line station to the Blue Line’s Avondale station through the Em-ory University area.

• Arterial rapid transit buses on Peachtree Street and Peachtree Road. “Arterial rap-id transit” means a bus that runs espe-cially frequently and with priority at sig-nals and in lines. The Peachtree route

would run through Buckhead between the Five Points station and the Brookhav-en/Oglethorpe Gold/Red Line station in Brookhaven. MARTA proposes pedestri-an improvements on that corridor as well.

• Bus rapid transit on Northside Drive. “Bus rapid transit” means the bus would travel mostly in a dedicated lane. The Northside route would run between southwest Atlanta and I-75 on the Buck-head border.

• A light rail plan to link BeltLine light rail to the new Armour Yard station, the streetcar and other intown transit facil-ities.

• Improved signage, pedestrian access and other amenities at all existing rail sta-tions; additional cars on rail lines; and better bus timing on some routes.

In July, the council will take up a poten-tial second referendum for a transportation sales tax – or TSPLOST – to fund bike trails, sidewalk and road projects for five years. If voters approve another half-penny for the TSPLOST along with approving the MARTA tax, that would increase the city’s sales tax to 9 percent – the highest in the state.

‘Guerrilla’ gardeners aim to beautify areas along Buford highwayBY JOHN [email protected]

Walk down Buford Highway and you’ll see more concrete and asphalt than trees and flowers. It’s a corridor with heavy pedestrian traffic, but lots of dirt paths, parking lots and featureless bus stops.

Now a “guerrilla gardening” project aims to beautify the street with flowers, paving stones and other amenities in-stalled without permission on spots that seem neglected.

It’s the work of Cross Keys High School teacher Rebekah Morris and some of her students who took part in the “Buford Highway Project” assignment this year, an effort to produce youth-created vi-sions for the corridor.

“Our class is continuing the efforts we began with the ‘BuHi Project’ during the summer,” Morris said in an email. “This isn’t officially a school assignment, but I wanted to figure out a way to keep the momentum going.”

She discovered the idea of “guerrilla gardening” and “the students immediate-ly gravitated toward the idea,” she said. The guerrilla gardening movement be-gan more than a decade ago in London, where its ongoing efforts are document-ed at guerrillagardening.org. The general

idea is to add life and usefulness to ugly or car-dominated areas.

Even with sidewalks and signalized crosswalks recently installed on the Brookhaven end, Buford Highway re-mains notoriously dangerous for pedes-trians, and its bus stops often lack shel-ters or benches. A fundraising website for Morris’s project said the students are using the tactic “to provoke change by us-ing guerrilla gardening as a form of pro-test/direct action.”

“These areas have been needing some love and attention for years,” Morris said. “In many places, there are piles of dirt lining the streets of Buford Highway, and we want to improve the overall appear-ance of the corridor by planting small flowers and plants in areas that currently are devoid of vegetation.”

Their first experiment in guerrilla gar-dening was carried out June 1 at a MAR-TA bus stop at the corner of Buford High-way and Bragg Street in Chamblee. It included two large flower pots set on pav-ers and gravel, along with a trash can.

Morris said she isn’t concerned about possible legal effects of beautifying pub-lic land without permission. “These aren’t trees or anything that is perma-nently going to change the properties,” she said. “It’s simply re-vegetating bare areas along BuHi,” Morris said.

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Would you like a handmade burg-er of locally sourced beef on herb focac-cia bread with spicy Korean mayo and sweet potato fries? Feel free to swap the red meat for free-range chicken or a por-tabello mushroom.

It sounds like the menu at a trendy new restaurant or food truck. In fact, it’s the cafeteria at Northside Hospital on Pill Hill, where Sandy Springs-based Morri-son Healthcare cooks up meals for every-one from patients to the public.

Welcome to a new era where the once-dreaded term “hospital food” now means higher quality and more choices.

“Food’s an ever-evolving journey,” said Jeremy Rhodes, Morrison’s regional di-rector of operations. “It’s not just about nourishing the body anymore.” Morrison is trying to stay ahead of trends driven by TV cooking shows, food trucks and better awareness of the role of the dining expe-rience in patient health, he said.

Or as Bryan Penland, Morrison’s se-nior director food and nutrition at North-side, put it more simply, it’s getting away from expectations of “red Jell-O, blue Jell-O.”

All Northside cooking is done on-site

under Executive Chef Tim Wade, who previously ran the kitchens at Atlanta’s Hyatt Regency hotel and the Chateau Elan Winery and Resort in Braselton, Ga.

As a company, Morrison has trans-formed in response to dining trends.

It began life in 1920 as Morrison’s Cafeteria, an Alabama-based restaurant chain that was highly popular for de-cades across the Southeast. The Ruby Tuesday restaurants joined the company in the 1980s.

In the 1990s, Morrison shifted out of the restaurant business into three di-visions—all based in Sandy Springs—providing food service to hospitals and senior living facilities and housekeep-ing-type services to both. Morrison now is owned by U.K.-based Compass Group, which provides food services in such places as military outposts and oil rigs, and locally to such facilities as the Geor-gia Aquarium, the Georgia Dome and the new Falcons stadium.

Morrison Healthcare serves hospi-tals around the country and locally, in-cluding Northside’s neighbor, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Scottish Rite. The company’s philosophy is “the power of choice,” said Penland, and that choice in-cludes customized contracts to serve a hospital’s unique demands.

At Scottish Rite, that includes hotel-style room service available anytime—a feature young patients and their families praised during the new Ronald McDon-ald House opening earlier this year.

At Northside, Morrison provides all food service except a standalone McDon-ald’s franchise, and that means running several mini-businesses to keep differ-ent sorts of customers happy. On a given day, Morrison serves about 1,500 patient meals; serves 500 to 800 staff and visitors in the cafeteria; and cooks more than 175 meals in the doctor’s lounge. The compa-

ny also operates a coffee stand called the Lotus Blossom Café and caters such in-house events as board meetings.

On the retail side, Morrison has a semi-captive audience of busy staff who need fast meals—but who also can get bored eating at the same place every day.

Those handcrafted burgers are part of a new “micro-concept” menu, inspired by food trucks. Three days a week, the caf-eteria offers fancier, handmade menu items—a little more pricey, but more customized—and has the staff wear a

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Morrison Healthcare cooks meals for everyone from patients to the public at Northside Hospital. The company says food is an “ever-

evolving journey,” and tries to stay ahead of food trends.

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Radio has changed dramatically in the 12 years since Sandy Springs resident Reed Haggard co-founded the pioneering liberal talk network Air America.

“The thing that threw everything up [in the air] was this,” Haggard said in a recent interview, holding up a cellphone. “People have so many choices now.”

Now Haggard and his old Air America partner Jon Sinton are trying to turn the digital tide to their advantage with a liberal talk app called Progressive Voices. He’s just one of many in the local radio business—which often operates in under-the-radar offices—who are coping with what “radio” means in the new multimedia landscape.

Some are huge companies like Cumulus Media, which operates several stations—like Rock 100.5 and OG 97.9—from offices near the I-285/Ga. 400 interchange. Some are local small businesses, like America’s Web Radio, an online conservative talk and educational station based in a Sandy Springs office park.

Knox, the one-named DJ and promo-tions manager at Buckhead-based alterna-tive rock station Radio 105.7, says the radio world now works on the “paper plate the-ory—people consume [content] really fast and throw it away.”

Social media is now a big part of the job, Knox said as he sat at his desk clicking a new post to the station’s Facebook page. “You can find music pretty easily” any-where these days, he said, so radio’s task is to tie it into a “lifestyle” via social media and DJ personalities.

Haggard has been in radio for over 35 years on the sales and fundraising side of the business, at both commercial sta-tions—he started at Atlanta’s old 94Q rock station—and such public broadcasting out-lets as WABE. Even 10 years into the inter-

net era, Haggard said, it was a business that “printed money” with big profit margins.

“When I left [alternative rock station] 99X in 2003, we billed $23 million [to ad-vertisers]. Half of that was profit,” he said. “And we weren’t the top biller in the mar-ketplace.”

In the wake of satellite radio, the iPod, online music services like Pandora and phone radio apps, the pie is sliced way thin-ner, Haggard said. And while companies like Cumulus and iHeartMedia have built huge multi-station empires, he said, they also built up debt.

Radio 105.7 is owned by iHeart, which operates five other stations in the same building at 1819 Peachtree Road. Stations as diverse as 94.9 The Bull, El Patron 105.3 and 640 WGST AM share studios next to each other, like apartment building neighbors.

Knox got his start in radio at 99X the same year Haggard left the station and re-calls the long-gone days when stations had 20 to 30 staffers.

“Radio 105.7 is essentially run by two people at this point,” Knox said. “Everyone wears nine hats.”

But that’s still enough to pack a punch, he said, noting the station sponsored a con-cert by the band Weezer the previous night that drew 18,000 fans. And the digital revo-lution has many upsides, he said, including iHeart’s online radio platform that aggre-gates its stations for about 60 million reg-istered users.

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For the user, it’s a simple slate of shows they can listen to on a phone or computer. The company also has a nonprofit arm that develops local talent to add into the mix, such as Mike Malloy, the former WSB Ra-dio personality.

“We triangulate all that stuff to make ev-erything work,” Haggard said. “This tech-nology just blows me away, that it’s just so advanced.”

He said business is good, with 600,000 listeners, which he expects to hit 1 million by the presidential election.

Whatever form it takes, radio still has some magic for its personality-driven prac-titioners. “I am much more conservative than the [Progressive Voices] hosts. But that’s not saying a lot. You make your mon-ey and your name by being somewhat ex-treme,” Haggard said. But overall, he added, “selling ideas” is more satisfying than “sell-ing entertainment.”

And amid all the changes, Knox still runs one of rock radio’s most basic servic-es: a local-music show. “It’s not a ratings driver, but it connects us to a local audi-ence,” he said. “I root for the underdog.”

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“We’re not winging this,” said Rhodes. “It’s not a bunch of old guys sitting around saying, ‘Let’s do a burger con-cept.’”

But Morrison’s main job is acting as the hospital’s food department. Penland works on-site and supervises 125 hospital employees.

“We’re here for the patients,” Rhodes said, and Morrison aims to offer them a similar menu of choices within the bounds doctors and nursing staff set. Penland said patients always have hot and cold meal options, and if the patient doesn’t like either one, “we can accom-modate most patient requests.”

“If you get a turkey sandwich with flatbread and hummus…it makes them want to eat, makes them stronger,” Rhodes said of the health benefits of bet-ter menu choices.

“Our food and nutrition service is an integral part of the care that Northside provides,” said Lee Echols, Northside’s

vice president of marketing and commu-nications. “We are proud of the excep-tional quality of the cuisine, food selec-tions and service that our staff provide.”

Morrison also pre-plans for disasters that bring in mass casualties or damage the hospital. It’s not abstract to Penland, who led a DeKalb Medical Center kitch-en staff trapped by the 2014 “snowpoc-alypse,” or to Rhodes, who was running a New Orleans hospital’s food service when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005 and stayed through flooding and looting. “[If] we can boil water, we can make food,” said Penland.

More typical is Morrison’s planning for patients’ special events. Penland said one young patient recently missed his prom when bone marrow treatment went longer than expected. Morrison cooked up a “five-star meal” and nursing staff threw an in-room party. “We had a prom for him in his room,” Penland said. “The smile he had made even the hard days you have in food service worth it.”

“Other than births, it’s not a great ex-perience” to be in a hospital, said Rhodes. “The highlight of your day, typically it’s a meal…We hope to be the highlight of someone’s day.”

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Five local companies made this year’s Fortune 500, an annual ranking of the na-tion’s corporations by total fiscal year reve-nue as compiled by Fortune magazine.

Sandy Springs gained a new Fortune 500 member, Veritiv, a packaging, printing, logistics and facilities firm that formed in 2014 from a corporate merger.

However, the city will soon lose anoth-er longtime Fortune 500 company, Newell Brands, which is moving its headquarters to New Jersey, though it will maintain divi-sion offices here.

Georgia has 30 companies on the list, with Cobb County-based Home Depot as the state’s No. 1.

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in Georgia), $11.5 billion• Veritiv (Sandy Springs), No. 323 (No. 10 in

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Georgia), $6 billion• Newell Brands (Sandy Springs), No. 434

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top 1,000: Intercontinental Exchange (No. 529), Graphic Packaging Holding Company (No. 577), Axiall (No. 613), Aaron’s (No. 689) and Global Payments (No. 777). Aaron’s is based in Buckhead while the others are all Sandy Springs companies.

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Question: With the impending U.S. presidential election, which of these issues do you think are the TWO most important issues that the candidates should address?

It’s still the stupid economy. At least that’s what respondents to Reporter News-papers’ most recent community survey think. Asked to pick two of 10 issues that candidates running for president should address, more than half the respondents pointed to the economy.

“The most important issue to me is getting our economy on track,” a 34-year-old Buckhead man said. “We need to fix our country before helping others.”

Responding to questions posed days after the shootings at a gay nightclub in Orlando, substantial portions of the 200 people surveyed also said the candidates should address ways to deal with terrorism and to control guns. More than a quar-ter of the respondents listed those issues among their top two.

Others cited healthcare (21 percent) or education (20 percent) as top issues. “Health. It’s so expensive to be healthy and if something happens, insurance cov-ers only so much,” a 29-year-old Atlanta woman said. A 30-year-old Atlanta woman called for more financial support for students: “Education should be free. Student loans need to be forgiven, so we can live in a debt-free society.”

During the cellphone survey of adults across communities served by Reporter Newspapers, many respondents voiced anger about the choice they’ll find on the ballot in November. Although some respondents voiced support for one of the pre-sumptive nominees of the two major parties, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Repub-lican Donald Trump, more expressed disillusion.

“It’s a complete circus,” a 40-year-old DeKalb County man commented. “Trump is a disaster and Hillary is just as bad.”

Others were just turned off. “We are one nation, and we all want what we think is best for it and ourselves,” a 33-year-old Buckhead man said. “The combative na-ture of both parties driven by sensational media has completely turned me off, and I don’t plan on voting.”

Some comments from respondents to our survey:

“I don’t see a candidate that is ready to take on the needs of our country at this time. Their priorities are mis-aligned with the needs of our country. I see a great need for focus on a realis-tic, strong economy and true systems in place to safeguard us from terrorism.”--47-year-old Sandy Springs woman “Donald Trump would be a complete disaster for the United States domes-tically, but, more importantly, inter-nationally. Hillary Clinton is crooked and will say anything to get elect-ed, but she’s better than Trump.”--32-year-old Atlanta man

“Trump scares me. [He] might get us in a war. However, I like him for all do-mestic issues, except gay rights.”--31-year-old Atlanta man

“The most important issues at hand en-compass many sectors: affordable hous-ing, prevention of gentrification, afford-able healthcare access and gun control.”--29-year-old Buckhead woman

“I think race relations are crucial; the shooting of African American men by law enforcement and by other African Americans (due to poverty) has become so normalized that it is expected. Stu-dents are graduating with so much debt that it almost makes the education ret-rogressive rather than progressive.”--23-year-old Atlanta woman

“Terrorism/defense and the econ-omy are the only things that real-ly matter on the federal level.”--34-year-old Brookhaven man

“Terrorism is important, but pales in comparison to our health-care and economic concerns.”--45-year-old Atlanta man

“Everything is polarized to a point where there is no middle ground, but in reality the solutions are not black or white. I think the most important issue is whether the next president can bring the people together over differences.”--27-year-old Dunwoody man

“I think both of our current candi-dates are a joke and I’m highly dis-appointed in my country for allow-ing such absurdities to happen.” --30-year-old Brookhaven woman

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Two members of Atlanta City Council have launched an online survey to mea-sure public interest in the city’s financial transparency.

The survey, launched by Council-women Felicia Moore and Mary Nor-wood, asks residents if they think all government expenditures should be made available to the pub-lic and published online.

“It started as me want-ing access as a city official. It was met with strong pushback from the may-or,” said Moore. “I did more research, then I saw where Atlanta stands in comparison to other cit-ies.”

Moore said a 2013 re-port from the United States Public Interest Re-search Group ranked 30 of the most populated cit-ies in the United States in terms of their govern-ment’s financial transpar-ency. The top three cit-ies from first to third are Chicago, New York City and San Francisco. Atlan-ta found itself in the bot-tom five and was tied for the third worst with De-troit and St. Louis.

Moore says she wants to see greater financial transparency and checkbook-level spending information available to Atlanta residents.

“If it’s something the public cares about, then we’ll move forward,” said Moore. “If it’s not something the public cares about, it’s not worth putting the energy into it.”

Unlike Atlanta, 17 of the 30 most pop-

ulated cities publish online databases with recipient-specific “checkbook-level” government expenditures, and most of them are searchable, PIRG reports.

Atlanta’s website provides its annual budgets, monthly financial reports and five-year plans. The website does not in-clude checkbook-level detail, nor does it

include lists of companies and nonprofits that re-ceive taxpayer money.

The level of financial in-formation provided online by other local cities varies.

Brookhaven publish-es Comprehensive Annu-al Financial Reports, an-nual budgets and monthly financial reports. The monthly financial reports include purchasing card transactions and checks to vendors. Sandy Springs publishes the city’s annual budgets and Comprehen-sive Annual Financial Re-ports.

Dunwoody publishes its Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports, annu-al budgets, monthly finan-cial reports, performance reports and a link to a fi-nancial data website that provides checkbook-level detail of government ex-

penditures. Bob Mullen, the director of commu-

nications for Dunwoody, said it’s impor-tant for the citizens of Dunwoody to be able to easily find the information they want about city government. “That’s the ultimate goal,” said Mullen. “We try to get tools in the hands of the citizens.”

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The I-285/Ga. 400 project and other GDOT plans got a skeptical response from members of the civic and social club. “In general, you build more roads, you get more traffic,” one audience member said.

But Goldberg said GDOT is no longer add-ing regular lanes to highways. Instead, it will add “managed lanes”—express lanes where drivers pay a toll that changes based on traf-fic volume. Managed lanes on I-75 in Cobb County are under construction now, and more are coming, eventually including I-285.

“Someday, the whole Perimeter will be connected by managed lanes,” Goldberg said.

Welch noted safety is another reason for the project, as the interchange current-ly forces drivers to change lanes rapidly to enter or exit. He said he’s surprised there aren’t more accidents, adding, “I was in-volved in one [accident] two months ago.”

Besides rebuilding the interchange, the project also adds “collector-distribu-tor lanes”—physically separated exit and entrance lanes—to Ga. 400 north to San-dy Springs’ Spalding Drive and to I-285 be-tween Roswell Road in Sandy Springs and Ashford-Dunwoody Road in Dunwoody and Brookhaven.

The Ga. 400/Abernathy Road inter-change in Sandy Springs will be rebuilt as a “diverging diamond,” where traffic flow di-rections change in time with traffic lights to move cars through faster. Other details re-vealed during the meeting:

--GDOT and the contracting team, North Perimeter Contractors, will soon open field offices within walking distance of the proj-ect, on Carpenter Drive in Sandy Springs. That street is just north of the I-285/Roswell Road interchange.

--Welch said the project will have “mini-mal traffic disruptions”—a relative term—with most of the work taking place at night. He also said traffic should improve during construction because various ramps and lanes will open as they are finished, instead of shutting the whole interchange down and reopening it all at once.

“I think as the project progresses, you’re

going to be seeing just more freedom of movement through the corridor,” Welch said of the phased-opening plan.

As for impacts on nearby Buckhead, Welch said it’s “hard to say.” Goldberg said some cut-through traffic is likely as drivers “get scared” by the project, but most of the work will be at night.

--GDOT is planning a system of regular, real-time construction and detour updates for the project.

--The project requires a lot of material. Welch gave some construction supply num-bers: 33 bridges will be built or rehabbed; more than 1 million square feet of noise-blocking walls will be built, and a similar amount of retaining walls; the project re-quires 400,000 tons of asphalt to pave the I-285 section and 2 million square feet of concrete paving on Ga. 400; and 125,000 lin-ear feet of storm drains will be installed.

Why was the bid for the project low-er than originally expected? GDOT had es-timated the project budget at $803 million, but North Perimeter’s winning bid was only $460 million. Less expensive is good, but the bid was so surprisingly lower that GDOT staff spent two days reviewing it in detail for flaws, Goldberg said after the meeting.

She said the contractors actually im-proved the plan and found “efficiences” in design and right of way use, and especially “saved tremendously on financing” because GDOT is using a method where the contrac-tor finances most of the project. (The actu-al final price tag will be higher when previ-ous right of way acquisition and other work is factored in.)

“We feel very confident and secure with that bid” and that it won’t go up significant-ly later, Goldberg said.

Still, the Buckhead 50 Club audience was skeptical.

With the population booming, a Braves stadium coming soon to nearby Cobb Coun-ty and public transit expansion lagging, club members were skeptical that road work will decongest anything for long. Managed lanes will make things “worse for the mass-es” who can’t afford the tolls, one man said, while others talked about the lack of MAR-TA expansion and the unbuilt Outer Perim-eter highway to handle truck traffic.

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a new business he plans to open in a building that long housed an Irby Ave-nue barbecue joint. “I kind of miss the old Buckhead. I think we’re losing that Buckhead charm, but I’m all for it [the redevelopment of the area]. I think it’s going to be great for business.”

Changes are obvious. Since Cali-fornia-based developers OliverMcMil-lan bought up the former Streets of At-lanta property in 2011 and brought its high-end Buckhead Atlanta redevel-opment project to the Buckhead Vil-lage east of Peachtree Street, Buck-head has begun bursting with new office and apartment towers. Now, development is crossing to the west

side of Peachtree and cropping up in the old shopping area there.

Texas-based apart-ment developer Ha-nover Co. is build-ing a high-rise expected to hold more than 350 apartments and ground-floor shops at the corner of Irby and Roswell Road. South Carolina-based Edens, which develops shopping centers, re-portedly has bought property in the West Village area, too. And the Buckhead Com-munity Improvement District board recent-ly voted to add a chunk of the West Village to the area in which the CID provides street im-provements.

Meanwhile, the owners of Irby Avneue landmark Henri’s Bakery and Cafe an-nounced last Novem-ber they would sell the 61 Irby Avenue proper-ty to a real estate de-veloper. The developer plans to build a mixed-

use project on the site, and intends to include space for a new Henri’s café in the new building, Henri’s said when announcing the sale.

At Northside Tool Rental, branch manager Frank Davis hears a lot about construction projects coming on and around Irby Avenue. Much of what he hears is just rumors, he said. “We hear all kinds of things,” he said.

But for Northside Tool Rental, con-struction bring business. Construction requires tools, so he believes the own-ers of the tool rental business will stay put. What’s the construction mean to him? “I think traffic might get worse,”

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the same. They know change is in the air, but for now, they say, that’s OK.

“I’m all for it,” said Edward Ken-imer, owner of Buckhead Barbecue,


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Davis said. “Other than that, it’s Buck-head. Something’s always changing.”

But construction proved too daunt-ing for Desiree Osmon, owner of Sab-ot, a clothing store. A couple of shops next door to Sabot are empty now and Osman is moving from the storefront she’s occupied for 13 years to one in a shopping center up Roswell Road. She worried her customers, faced with construction and traffic delays, will stop coming to Irby Avenue.

She’s moving “mostly because of what our street looks like and all the hype about what’s going to happening in this neighborhood,” she said. “[It’s] really affected people’s perception of this neighborhood.”

She started her business in the West Village, she said, because of the feel of the place.

“I think change can be good,” she said. “But I love this neighborhood and the character it has. It houses a lot of small, local, individual businesses. I think with development that’s proba-bly going to go away.”

At the Five Paces Inn, they’re not giving up yet. It’s the kind of place where old times are not forgotten. Regular customers grin from group photos on the walls. Ten regulars have their names engraved on brass plates marking their seats at the wooden bar. Pope, the bartender, seems to call just about everybody by name.

Hayden Smith, a 33-year-old who stopped by one afternoon with his dog, said he grew up around Buckhead and has watched the place change through the years. “It’s changed a lot ...,” he said. “A lot of local culture def-initely left – well, I shouldn’t say left, maybe relocated.”

A few seats away, Jack Russell said he’s been coming to Five Paces since the late 1960s or early 1970s. He’s one of the 10 with his name on a brass plate on the bar.

He sees both good and bad in the changes underway outside. The good is that the noisy bars that once attract-ed a late-night party crowd to Buck-

head are gone. The bad news? Some of the older, less pretentious businesses are following.

At Five Paces, “everybody knows everybody,” he said. “If you got mon-ey, you got money, but if you don’t, you don’t.” Nobody cares, he said.

Pope said she’s worked at the tav-ern at 41 Irby Avenue for 19 years. New buildings may replace all of the old ones up and down the little street at some point, but for now, the six-de-cade-old tavern holds on.

“It’ll be nice to stay here as long as we possibly can,” she said.

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Jack Russell has been frequenting the Five Paces Inn since the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Russell says he sees good and bad with the changes underway.

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DUNWOODY Monday, July 4, 9 a.m. Celebrate America’s birthday by attending the annual Fourth of July parade in Dunwoody, reportedly the largest in the state of Georgia. Event features floats, marching bands, vintage cars, clowns and animals. Free. Open to all. 1551 Dun-woody Village Parkway, Dunwoody, 30338. Get more information by visiting: dunwood-yga.org or calling 770-354-7653.

BUCKHEADMonday, July 4, 10 a.m. Lenox Square lights up the sky with the 57th annual “Legendary Fourth of July.” Mall shops and restaurants open 10 a.m.-6 p.m., with some later. Musical entertainment begins at 6 p.m. Fireworks go off at approximately 9:40 p.m. Free. The pub-lic is invited to attend. 3393 Peachtree Rd., NE, Atlanta, 30326. See details by going to: si-mon.com/mall/lenox-square, and clicking on news and events.

CHAMBLEEMonday, July 4, 5-10 p.m. Annual holiday celebration includes a bike and mini-train rides, corn hole tournament, kids’ activi-ties, live music featuring the Journey tribute band “Departure,” starting at 7 p.m., food and more. Fireworks begin at 9:30 p.m. Per-sonal food and beverages allowed; no alco-hol. Free and open to the public. Keswick Park, 3496 Keswick Dr., Chamblee, 30341. Contact [email protected] or call 770-986-5016 to find out more.

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CUPCAKE DECORATINGTuesday, July 5, 4-5:30 p.m. We encourage playing with your food! Use cupcakes as your canvas and icings as your paint. Free. Open to the first 15 participants. All are invited to at-tend. Suitable for those age 7-13. Call the Dun-woody Branch Library at 770-512-4640 or vis-it 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338 to register.

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Diana Silverman parked on the load-ing dock of the Buckhead Fresh Market, poised to execute her Second Helpings Atlanta “food rescue” mission.

The store’s assistant manager, John Doss, stood at the ready inside with three shopping carts brimming with excess boxed and bagged delectables — special-ty salads, artisan breads, some Quiche Lorraine, caramel apple pies, and turkey, Havarti cheese and cranberry sandwiches.

Within 15 minutes, the pair had fin-ished filling the trunk and back seat of Silver-man’s midsize car with 171 pounds of food. Then, she was off in a flash to deliver the bounty to My Sister’s House, a 264-bed shel-ter for women and children in Atlanta on Howell Mill Road.

Since its 2004 founding, Second Help-ings Atlanta has picked up and delivered more than 5 million pounds of fresh and prepared food that would have otherwise become food waste.

Alli Allen, a board member and a founder of the group, called that mile-stone, reached May 21, “pretty amazing.”

“It makes me just so proud of how far we’ve come,” she said.

With 474 volunteers using their own vehicles and one refrigerated truck, about 118 pickups and deliveries of food are made by Second Helpings every week, said Joe Labriola, the group’s director.

Joining Fresh Market on a roster of nearly 60 food donors are Whole Foods, Target, Costco, Publix, Cox Enterprises, Trader Joe’s and Sprouts, as well as lo-cal restaurants, caterers, bakeries and school cafeterias. The organization also picks up one-time donations of leftovers, such as four trays of meatballs from a Taste of Atlanta event.

Donations are delivered at no charge to nearly 30 partner agencies serving the food insecure.

In Georgia, one in five people and 30 percent of children live in homes with limited or uncertain access to adequate food, according to government statistics.

“We know that we produce enough food in the United States to feed every man, woman and child,” Labriola said. “The challenge is in getting food from those who have it to those who need it.”

Food donors are happy to do a good thing for the community at no or very low cost, he said. “They just need to pack-age it up for us to pick up,” he said. “Ev-erywhere I go, I get hugs.”

Second Helpings Atlanta was modeled after a program in Hilton Head founded by Alpharetta area resident Guenther Hecht.

Hecht wanted to start a similar pro-gram at Sandy Springs’ Temple Sinai at about the same time Alli Allen was

looking to start a huge communi-ty service project there. After years of steady growth, Second Helpings Atlanta became a 501(c)(3) nonprof-it in 2013.

Sandy Springs’ Community As-sistance Center has been a part-ner agency since Second Helpings began. The or-ganization is de-livering about 30,000 pounds of

food a month to the nearly 30-year-old CAC, according to Tamara Carrera, its CEO and executive director.

Families can now select these foods in a mini-market setting created a cou-ple of months ago. “The food is so much better than what we distributed before,” said Carrera, referring to the years that the center was limited to canned and dry goods.

In Dunwoody, Second Helpings en-ables Malachi’s Storehouse to offer free food once a week to about 765 people in a market setting and through a hot meal served to about 200, said Kathy Malcolm Hall, executive director.

A few years ago, the nonprofit housed at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church began getting flash-frozen Whole Foods hot bar extras among its grocery deliveries.

Those items weren’t too popular at

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Second Helpings Atlanta volunteer Diana Silverman picks up excess bread, sandwiches,

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first because they didn’t look very appeal-ing in their freezer bags, Hall said.

“So we decided to serve them, and the hot meal was born,” she said. “On Wednesdays, the church is turned into a cafe and market for the food marginal-ized.”

Hecht said he is thankful for everyone responsible for Second Helpings Atlan-ta’s success.

“Without our volunteers,” he said, “we would be nothing.”

The organization has a “90-minute model” for volunteer drivers who are asked to make just one run a month.

Routes are assigned so they can pick up and deliver food and get back to their homes within about 90 minutes. They’re placed in small teams so they can fill in for each other when necessary.

Silverman, a Buckhead retiree, began volunteering for Second Helpings Atlan-ta about five years ago.

“I’ve never had to go hungry, and you take that for granted,” she said. “For a very little time and a little driving and a little elbow grease lifting stuff you get a better feeling than you deserve.”

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Second Helpings Atlanta celebrates the rescue of its 5-millionth-pound of food with Pace Academy students and representatives

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The Community Assistance Center in Sandy Springs has opened a “client choice pantry,”

a mini-market that offers fresh and prepared food rescued by Second Helpings Atlanta.

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Johnna GadomskiHoly Innocents’ Episcopal School, graduate

Johnna Gadom-ski made a mark in high school through working with organizations that helped oth-ers, both locally and globally.

At Holy In-nocents’ Episco-pal School, John-na founded the school’s UNICEF Club and also vol-unteered with the school’s Change-A-Life Club, which paired high school student mentors with at-risk students at Ridgeview Char-ter School, a San-dy Springs mid-dle school.

Johnna’s first endeavor in help-ing others came through the UNICEF Club, a group of Holy Innocents’ stu-dents who work to support the Unit-ed Nations-founded organization that helps children in developing countries around the world. She was the club’s founder and president.

Johnna joined the Change-A-Life Club during her junior year. Last year, she took over as its president. Her goal was to bring awareness to the state of the chil-dren’s lives and help others understand what the students needed to succeed.

Club members tutor Ridgeview stu-dents to help them with their school work. They hold bake sales, host school supplies drives and tutor the students. Johnna said the club “is highly commit-ted to ensuring the success of local low-income students.”

Since the club’s creation, it has con-tributed to a higher graduation rate at Riverwood International Char-ter School, Johnna said. This fall, the Change-A-Life Club will have its first college attendee who was helped by the program in middle school, she said.

“I’ve become so close with my stu-dents, and their success is my success,”

Johnna said. “They remind me of what’s important and not to take life too seri-ously. Becoming an active part of their community and having the opportunity to positively influence these students’ lives has been the most rewarding ex-perience of my high school career.”

Johnna said her vol-unteer work has helped her take less about her life

for granted. After expe-riencing the situations that these students deal with dai-ly, she and fellow club members have a new appreciation for their own circumstanc-es.

“It nev-er ceases to amaze us to see Johnna’s passion and

dedication to better the lives of our at-risk children in our community,” said Felix Lora, director of the Sandy Springs Mission, another group John-na has worked with as a volunteer. “She would do anything possible to see these children succeed academically. She is an amazing young leader!”

She moved from California to At-lanta in the summer of 2012, just be-fore her freshman year. She was used to the West Coast active lifestyle and continued that through membership in her school’s cross-country and soccer teams. She also said she takes at least two hikes every week.

Johnna says she plans to follow her hu-manitarian work after she finishes college.

What’s Next?Johnna will be attending Emory Uni-

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The plan eventually would need ap-proval from Brookhaven City Council.

The new plans have reduced the number of apartments from 580 to 340, although the number of senior afford-able housing units remain the same at 100. By reducing the number of rent-al units, MARTA has added 107 for-sale condos and townhomes at the south-ern portion of the site. A hotel with 125 rooms is planned on the west side of the project.

The office space square-footage of the proposed development has been reduced from 400,000 square feet to 200,000 square feet. Retail space is about the same, at nearly 56,000 square feet.

A parking deck had been designed to go at the northern portion of the site, at the corner of Dresden Drive and Peachtree Road. However, after community input from residents who didn’t want the deck to be visible from Peachtree Road, that structure was moved to the eastern portion of the site, Rhein said, and will be “wrapped in apartment units.” The parking deck is expected to be no taller than five floors.

A food hall with a rooftop bar and restaurant also is planned, to be locat-

MARTA has made changes to a

planned mixed-use development near

its Brookhaven-Oglethorpe station

after complaints from area residents.

Changes include reducing office space as well as the number of

apartments.

COOPER CARRY

ed at the site once being considered for the Brookhaven branch of the DeKalb County Library. It would be similar to a food hall at Ponce City Market in Mid-town. Outside the food hall is a park that could hold up to 1,000 people for movie nights or intimate concerts, Rhe-in said.

The tallest building proposed for the site would stand 8 stories. The of-fice building is one of the main visu-als for the development, at the corner of Peachtree Road and Dresden Drive, Art Lomenick, president of develop-ment for Integral said. Residential tow-ers are expected to be 6 stories, he said, that would include 5 stories over 1 story of retail spaces.

There is still room for a City Hall or other city buildings, including the city’s library, in a building located next to the transit station.

The desire for a public gathering

space as well as connectivity and pedes-trian accessibility are also major com-ponents of the proposed development.

Brookhaven City Center Partners, a joint venture of Integral and Tran-swestern, are the developers of the proj-ect. Working with them are architects from Cooper Carry and traffic analysts from Kimley-Horn.

The core of the development is to be a 0.75-acre park — the Town Green — where residents can gather for picnics, yoga, Frisbee or other activities such as concerts and movies.

Another major issue is traffic and how to deal with the congestion on Peachtree Road, specifically at North Druid Hills Road and Dresden Drive. Rob Ross, project manager with Kim-ley-Horn, said his company has been focusing on these two intersections as part of its work on the MARTA develop-ment.

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FAMILY CARJACKED AT OK CAFE IN BUCKHEAD

A family was carjacked outside the OK Cafe in Buckhead and an arrest has been made in the case.

Carlos Twine, 18, of Atlanta, was ar-rested by the Atlanta Police Department for allegedly stealing on June 13 a Mer-cedes-Benz from a family who had dined at the OK Cafe.

Twine faces charges of: armed rob-bery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and hijack-ing a motor vehicle, according to records with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Depart-ment.

From police reports dated June 5 through June 11

The following information was provided by the Zone 2 Precinct of the Atlanta Police Department

and is presumed to be accurate.

R O B B E RY � 1900 block of Piedmont Circle NE – On

June 6, in the morning, a man was parked in the back parking lot of a fast-food res-taurant when a man approached his ve-hicle. The suspect asked the victim if he had any money. The victim said he told the suspect “no,” and that the suspect then pointed a gun at him and said, “Get out of the way and give me your keys.” The victim said he surrendered his keys and that the suspect drove off from the location traveling south on Piedmont.

� 3300 block of Peachtree Road NE – On June 7, in the morning, in the Lenox Mall parking lot, a man was approached by three men. One pointed a gun at him and they all demanded the man open the trunk of his vehicle. The suspects then took the victim’s red Eddie Bauer bag, Apple laptop, Audio Technica mi-crophone and black Apple iPhone 6.

� 3300 block of Peachtree Road – On June 9, in the evening, a man met an-other in a parking lot to sell an iPhone. The victim was beaten, robbed and car-jacked. Police later recovered the car on Buckhead Avenue.

� 3300 block of Peachtree Road NE – On June 9, in the evening, at Lenox Mall, a woman was sitting in her car when she was approached by two men. She told police they pointed a gun at her and told her to get out of the car and to leave her purse. Once the woman got out of the car, the men drove off down Peachtree Road. The victim’s wallet, iPhone, purse and debit/credit cards were taken.

� 3400 block of Lenox Road NE – On June 10, in the evening, a woman was robbed in her hotel room. She told po-

lice that she was waiting for a friend to arrive. She said that she heard a knock at the door and she opened it, believing it to be her friend. She said that when she opened the door a man rushed inside and placed a gun to her head. He told her to lie on the ground. The suspect then took the woman’s purse, $400 in cash, two $400 gift cards, an Android phone and debit/credit cards. The suspect then fled.

� 3400 block of Kings-boro Road – On June 10, in the evening, a man said he was walking in a grocery store parking lot when he was approached from behind by two men. He said they asked if he had a lighter and as he was about to answer them they placed a gun on his right tem-ple and demanded his possessions. They took his iPod, wallet and $150 in cash. The suspects fled toward the MARTA station.

AG G R AVAT E D A S S A U LT � 2000 block of Peachtree Road NE – On

June 10, in the evening, a man told police he and another man got into an argu-ment when the man came at him with a box cutter. The suspect also hit the man with a cane. The suspect left the apart-ment in the victim’s vehicle. The victim had visible injuries to his face and head.

R E S I D E N T I A L B U R G L A RY � 400 block of Northside Circle NW –

On June 6, in the evening, the deadbolt to a residence was damaged to gain en-try. A black 40-inch HTC TV and two sil-ver Michael Kors watches were stolen.

� 1000 block of Peachtree Park Drive NE – On June 7, during the day, two Mac-Book Pros were taken from an apart-ment. The victim said that the door is unusually easy to unlock.

� 2000 block of Peachtree Road NE – On June 7, during the day, someone report-ed damage to the door frame of their apartment.

� 6200 block of Ivy Chase Way NE – On June 7, during the day, the front door to an apartment was kicked in. A PS3, Mac-Book, MacBook laptop, $2,000 in cash, a 12-gauge single shot firearm and medi-cation were taken. The victim said that he knows someone who has recently been arrested and needed money.

� 3600 block of Roxboro Road NE – On June 7, in the evening, a man told police he returned home to find his bedroom window open. A Microsoft Surface tab-

let, computer mouse and a Hershel backpack were missing from the loca-tion.

� 1100 block of Lavista Road NE – On June 7 during the day, someone

drilled into the deadbolt of an apartment. A 55-inch

Vizio TV, Jansport head-phones, Dell laptop, 55-inch TV, Toshiba lap-top, iPad and a white PS4 were stolen.

�2300 block of Park-land Drive NE – On June

9, during the day, someone gained entry into an apart-

ment by damaging the front door lock. A black Asus laptop was taken.

� 2300 block of Parkland Drive NE – On June 9 during the day, the front door lock of an apartment was damaged to gain entry. Miscellaneous jewelry, a Vi-sio TV and two laptops were taken.

� 400 block of Armour Drive NE – A man said his house sitter

told him that his apartment residence had been broken into while he was out of town. A 55-inch LG TV, 40-inch Sam-sung TV, Citizens watch and a David Ar-den bracelet with a broken clasp were stolen.

� 400 block of Armour Drive NE – On June 9 during the day, the front door lock of an apartment was damaged. A MacBook Pro, four gold Michael Kors watches, MJ watch, LV purse and checks were taken. Surveillance cameras ob-served on the scene that may have cap-tured the incident.

� 1700 block of W. Wesley Road NW – On June 10, in the evening, the glass side door of a house was broken. A Rolex and $1,000 in cash were stolen.

� 3000 block of Habersham Way NW – On June 10, in the morning, a man told police his tools were stolen from a house. He said he left his tools there and that when he returned the next day, they had been taken.

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