Plans for a riverfront event facility in Sandy Springs at the Roswell bridge drew a stream of criticism from residents at an Aug. 29 community meeting. Traffic and a possible conversion to a restaurant were main concerns with the four-story, 30,000-square-foot facility plan at the corner of Roswell Road and Roberts Drive. “It’s a disaster…continue reading at Reporter Newspapers.… Read More »
A contemporary art gallery has joined the restaurants, health centers, shops and grocery store in the Sandy Springs City Walk complex. Dakoro Edwards, a 42-year-old Sandy Springs resident, celebrated the grand opening of his Dakoro Art Gallery on July 28. It is filled with his abstract works and portraits meant to inspire and promote positivity. […]
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The gigantic theater whose walls are now rising above Sandy Springs’ Roswell Road at City Springs is a monument to the importance of the arts in the city’s vision for its new downtown. But it’s just the most visible part of a bigger arts plan. Two city committees are helping to create a comprehensive public […]
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A design for a facility to better showcase the historic spring that gave Sandy Springs its name has been chosen and will be revealed to the public soon, according to Heritage Sandy Springs. “Our goal is to reimagine the spring site, our community’s namesake, as an inspiring symbol of our heritage and our future,” said Carol […]
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The following represent some, but not all, of the reports made to the Sandy Springs police from July 23 through July 30. The following information was provided by Capt. Steve Rose of the Sandy Springs Police Department from its records and is presumed to be accurate. Burglary 6600 block of Vernon Woods – On July […]
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The city of Sandy Springs may sue the Perimeter Center Improvement Districts and a company that once ran the city government over paperwork errors forcing a repayment of $2.8 million in federal streetscape funds. Continue reading at The Sandy Springs Reporter… Read More »
Sandy Springs Police arrested three Riverwood High School students Thursday, Aug. 11, for allegedly waving guns at a road crew. The three 17-year-olds were taken into custody. It is the policy of the Sandy Springs Reporter to not publish the names of juvenile suspects. At about 1 p.m. on Aug. 11, witnesses reported seeing a […]
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The five-skyscraper redevelopment plan for 1117 Perimeter Center West recently got a favorable review from the Atlanta Regional Commission heading into a public meeting at Sandy Springs City Hall on Aug. 22. The plan by Australia-based Hong Property Trust calls for about 1,600 residential units in three towers; about 1.5 million square feet of offices […]
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The public will get another look at the controversial design for Sandy Springs Circle at an Aug. 17 meeting. Everyone from the mayor to residents were surprised earlier this year with a plan for the section of Sandy Springs Circle between Hammond Drive and Mount Vernon Highway, which includes turning two lanes into on-street parking. […]
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Detour details have been announced for the night closures of the Riverside Drive bridge over I-285 on three upcoming weekends starting Aug. 5. The closures, part of work on new roundabouts at the interchange, are slated for Aug. 5-8, Aug. 12-15 and Aug. 19-22, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation. On those weekends, the […]
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A public meeting about design proposals for a new city park on Windsor Parkway in Sandy Springs is slated for Aug. 1. Windsor Meadows Park is proposed for a floodplain area at Windsor Parkway and Northland Drive on a site where three houses were destroyed in a 2009 flood of the adjacent Nancy Creek. In […]
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In 2014, Sandy Springs resident Wesley Bloeme didn’t know much about pressure washing. But he knew a lot about the student debt facing him as he attended Maryville College in Tennessee. Now the young entrepreneur has turned a summer job into College Student Pressure Washing, a business that employs two other students and has him […]
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Are Perimeter Center’s traffic cops really making a difference—or maybe even making things worse? The Sandy Springs City Council aims to find out with a $2,000 “experiment” in police-free rush hours on part of Peachtree-Dunwoody Road. The council approved the study at the same July 19 meeting where it bounced around other innovative traffic ideas […]
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The Riverside Drive bridge over I-285 in Sandy Springs is slated to close for three weekends in August for repairs and maintenance, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation. The closures are slated for Aug. 5-8, Aug. 12-15 and Aug. 19-22, according to GDOT. On those weekends, the closures will begin at 9 p.m. on […]
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In the midnight hour of April 20, a police chase of a stolen car ended with a bang in Bruce Cusmano’s front yard. The car went off Peachtree-Dunwoody Road, jumped a line of boulders and slammed into Cusmano’s elaborate driveway gate, doing $10,000 in damage. Now Cusmano wants somebody to pay—the city, which says it’s […]
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