So my name is Michael all they have I am
the director of the NASA this incident

planning program here at Georgia Tech and

I'm going to be fine you through
this world Town Planning Day

in particular I'm inviting you to
the sixty fifth birthday of the world

planning day I don't know how many of
you realize that in this room and even

my photography is the ONLY want to hold
enough throughout the ground at that time

that it was started in Buenos Aires and
the way of celebrating and

advancing the understanding of planning
and the professional practice of planning.

Both locally and Coldplay and
that goes back to nine hundred forty nine

Georgia Tech's involvement in it is not
quite that although our involvement

goes back to the Iraqi thousand sex
that this is the kind of the eighth

anniversary of calculating day a year ago
if you checked one of the things that has

always been true about the town planning.

Day for Georgia Tech is
that it is student run and.

Super organized to manage
the whole thing and

so we're very grateful to
the students that have done this.

And many kinds of topics that have been
expressed in the earth dealt with in

the past and
event around the issues that are related

to the Maddux subjects like
transit that's developments and

the urban planning and the and
the global south and but

also a fairly significant emphasis on
large scale development projects that have

reported implications for
the city of Atlanta and this includes a.

Year where we looked at the multi-modal
transportation center and

they also another year we looked
at the Falcon stadium and

in light of this Tonight's topic is kind
of along that line of a large scale.

Redevelopment but in a very different kind
of direction because of the direction of

doing a larger development and
rethinking a place and

I might note that it's also the birthday
of that particular event because fifty

years ago Mayor Ivan Allen here
in Europe came up with the idea

of putting in place the first stadium
that was built on the site and

then it was built on a site that had been
cleared by urban renewal for housing

it was actually quite controversial
when it was done in planning field and

led to what I start as I know was
the first planning resignation

resignation of a planning planner in
the city because of disagreements over

city policy related to development so this
has a long history of transitions it's

been in transition are quite frequently
since then and planners have been

in the middle of that and I think it's
quite appropriate that we step back and

think about this particular location
place and what it means to our city and

what the opportunities are I'd like to
thank the organizers of this event and

in particular Allison bus them who was
the kind of overall event coordinator and

Blair Robert Cone who's in fact
going to be the moderator for

the event there was a large number of
other students I won't use alternate

except that Lindsey carry a broom
Marcella Katy Perry Johnny stuff on and

I've run out of air so that's but lots of
other students that were involved in this

thank you very much for
that I'd like to introduce a lawyer.

Who is the moderator of
the second year and C.R.P.

student in economic development with
a focus on real estate development and

as you might imagine has some interest
in this particular topic before she came

here to Georgia Tech she got her business
economics degree from lehigh and

worked in marketing communications and
Policy Research So where were you married.

Thank you very

much.

Thank you Professor and thank you everyone
for being with us today exceptionally our

speakers guy right and my interviews Eric
and Alice our first panelists as it read

a passing out of a lot of our very own
circuits taxi every So playing program

every day currently works for
the city of Atlanta as a principle player.

You connect with floorball our day another
Georgia Tech City friend you love them

glorified tax allocation Dysart program
forget everything that's the plan up

next catalyst is Robert Welsh who's the
character really Greek community coalition

and unbolt president of people sound.

Effects as Deborah sat the executive
director of stand up which also works at

the affected neighborhoods assessing last
not least I'm sorry and I say unless

it's something that's all the president
of organized neighbors of Somerville

court and civic advocate for the area last
the not least we have Michael Rowland

who is the president of the Atlanta
New York about cleaning unit B. and

the committee member of the stadium
neighborhoods tax allocation the steps.

Welcome and thank you again for

being here with us today taking time out
of your schedule to begin the program

tonight says instead to give us every
overview of the summer home neighborhood.

Great you know we will hear me OK Hi Good
evening my Miss Suzanne Mitchell and

I'm the president of
the organizers of summer no.

You know I'm going to design right into
the history summer who is now the age of

sixty five that we will be celebrating
our hundred fiftieth anniversary

next year which really
really excited about.

It was a settlement for
African-Americans and Jewish settlers.

Named Summerhill if you talk to
some of the older residents of

the community will tell you that.

Domestics lived in Somerville and
walked up to Grant Park and

if you understand how to
look at it it was built as

you walk up the hill to Grant Park
has the name Summer hell.

It was.

It was home to the first eighty S.
school for

African-Americans eighty Johnson
it was the home of sand in

the south near Santa Sol earth place and
home.

Each day Russell Herman Russell who I'm
sure all of you are familiar with his work

in the city.

And.

It was also the home for being a hospital
which a lot of people the original one of

the people he my hospital and so our
community to these days extremely diverse

if you were to come to one of our
neighborhood association meetings we are.

Economically diverse we are racially
diverse as well as sexual orientation

diverse families we have seniors we have.

A lot of seniors we have a lot
of families we have a lot of.

Single family households so
we are very very highly diverse community.

And a large portion of our community sits
with Turner Field in it right now but

historically Georgia Avenue
which is one of the May or

Affairs capital out of there
Georgia Avenue was a very robust

African-American retail the in
the forty's and after Dr King

died it was the one street the one place
where there were actual riots in Atlanta.

And after those riots you
saw at the Quine another

interesting fact about Summerhill as there
was a van by the name of Leo Frank and

he was the only white person and
a Jewish man to be lead

in the state of Georgia and he was
from Summerhill as well and he worked

at the pencil factory loss if you all know
where that is those are front and center.

So we have a really really
robust history in our community

it's something that has been a loss.

As you all know or
if you don't you will now see

in the sixty's seventy five eighty five K.
through Summerhill.

Really took out Summer Hill and
divided Grant Park.

As well as twenty.

Then the stadiums came and
the person was Fulton County Stadium.

A lot of promises were made on
each one of these large impact

all developments in our community.

The gentleman started out the urban
renewal project which was in the seventy's

which didn't announce a much and
then once again the community was promised

quite a bit around the Olympics some
of the alleged executive coming in.

And for many of the residents who were in
Summerhill that I was not like him in two

thousand and one lot of those promises
were not holistically the felt.

And now here we are again at what

our community feels is
an incredible opportunity to.

Rethink the community.

Move thoughtfully and deliberately and
inclusive print center away.

Because we recognize that.

Summerhill in the shadow
of the state capitol

ten minutes from Hartsfield Jackson
Airport the busiest airport in the world

is the gateway to the south.

And.

It is about that that occurs it has to be
done a credibly thoughtfully it a bagel

Lily taking into all of the best practices
that are currently occurring now so

from our perspective I did incredibly
excited to be here tonight and

I want to thank you all for
asking Summerhill to be a part of this but

also I want to thank the Georgia Tech
community because they have

been very committed to our community and
she thousand and

six when we get our original redevelopment
plan work is stacked SEPTA with

a number of very innovative ideas and
as I think Mr Bower that there

I'm going to just put them on public
notice that that's what I do.

Sue encourage him to.

Take the city of and do a robust.

City.

About how we can rethink charter fields.

And you know we want the best
of the brightest ideas.

Thank you and

that's great starting I think we can
handle it st me explain work personally

and.

You know well on what the Office
of Planning and our department of

focus a lot of that plan and brought the
various neighborhoods throughout the city

and there was the brunt of the vision but
then the opposite when I'm in the zone and

on and on we get on and that isn't
that our focus in the zone in and

I don't was both writing zoning codes and
administering to zoning ordinance and

also a permit or
a portion of partial permit in projects

prior to what kind of
something building permits.

So my involvement actually will be
more on the tail end of the stage

at once we have zone in place.

But it was only back up I guess there
was some all study of that were done and

back and the most recent back in two
thousand was that the summer where it

all up and it was.

Back in two thousand and

six recommended some zone in Iran has
changes which have since been adopted and

are in place and some are at this
morning at any of the damage that occurs

applicants come to our office or permit
Myrick to examine a building permit and

I'm in the office of mining so I would be
more involved in terms of the talent we

have other divisions up conference
a plan in section in our office

that would be working closely with the
best Atlanta as well as the community and

looking at what changes to the plan
that was adopted to take place as

a result of the changing dynamics
of where the departure of

the break is going to renew the lease
which looks to be the case.

And then we also have a translation
of those in the would be plugged in

other competition issues and
now we have a jihadist Martin division but

us of us through the process and
the other division is the one in

our blank mission which of
the historic preservation.

Of where there are facets within
the neighborhood how the possibility for

does that mission and we look at the pub
that are on the little building as well

as maybe a district wide.

Something to go.

Back to look a should be sick
quoting you and such a response or

color leaving plenty of people
lately that's OK CAN BE think

I was aware of something so
serious for putting a youth thing of

information will be fine for me meaning
we can go I mean if you think or

there's as we'll as the morning
sun to keep the very end of.

These a specific area this.

In the if they don't feel a thing
in neighborhoods he's a comedian.

That's out of Egypt nice to call is that
in the evening going to some of He'll

people say it's cool and couldn't believe
we just wind there with this CD but

that doesn't mean that Mickey Sherman
put needles in person you should see

if it is in the show but it made it
yes in mending we can understand this

we're also working on getting
over the exult in certain

areas all these commercial notes so

we basically see that
that's a location D.C. but

the use of that there is ignition but
they are there is it is a nation

produced.

Robber welshing mob community resident
living people's town I actually live on

a caring drive and have lived.

On the people's company was he.

In the house.

And of course he was kind of the Jason
two to somebody else I live on a carriage

drive which obviously Ted is right there
are lived in and we were seven years and

have been a long time our community
advocate over the course of Mark we're so

for some personally vested in
order to property here stadium but

as a community advocate and share through
the Community Coalition which our

organization uses of photography
primarily a form of voice methodology

as a means of social engagement so what we
do is we get we have plenty to go out and

provide cameras to residents to take
pictures so that they can advocate for

themselves are through their own
eyes right to their homelands and

our very first project was a project back
into Gaza and six where we took pictures

of vacant properties or rather residence
the pictures of big parties which at that

time was the most a weight
issue it'd be you being.

One of the bases we would do the glee
that was that almost fifty percent of

the entire housing stock and if you B.
which includes Somerville and

people out of your mark all part
neighborhoods in the city area

once already and this is still.

A problem to the state even you know
eight years after the mortgage.

Meltdown and the housing crisis and
so we're going to ball

that school around is we have been
voiced by to call be on the brace and

is part of that is an exhibit which will
open up on the seventeenth of November at

city hall and we have again gotten some
wonderful war funding from as people

are is also coming any hazy foundation
to allow residents to go out and

take pictures of what their vision and

see what their interpretation is of
the braids and baking Turner Field and

what the opportunities are and what the
challenges are and so this New Orleans it

will focus on their interpretation and
so we have these.

Huge you know five by E. pictures that
will be on exhibit at City Hall and

that is the way that we
have chosen to advocate for

our community put them on the mobile force
in our neighborhoods who build always good

old boys at the table and so
that's how I'm connected to the work and

I just want to see them
bank will be here and

have this discussion.

My name is Dr Scott of the executive
director of Georgia stand up and

also the founder of a program called
Georgia trade out the for the workforce

development program as well and
it's a pleasure to be here especially my

old friend Mike about and I was down a lot
of projects together over the years and

I was and I think I'm going speak to the
scenes that you are attacking the number

of students that have been and we work
together over the last couple years and

a number of projects so I'm Georgia Stan.

Because if they can act and work in
communities and we're actually located in

and the have been selves and
we started it in two thousand and five so

not only am I stakeholder in our
organization as a stakeholder we're right

there at Ivy building right
across from the stadium and

my mother lives in Mechanicsville And
so I'm a double stakeholder in another

way because I want to quality
neighborhood for her as well but

when I look at what's happening
right outside my office window and

the changes in the transformations
that could happen and

will happen in the neighborhood I look
back and think about what happened in

the ninety's when we were just reimagining
with the stadium was going to look like at

the time I was actually working for
the city of Atlanta and

the parks department and we were in the
middle of these in world discussions and

I know Columbus was there on fighting to
make sure that the community actually had

voice in the development process for the
Fulton County Stadium in the new Olympic

stadium so here it is you know that
twenty years later thirty years later and

we're in history plus discussion and
hopefully will get it right this time

thank that part of our role and part of my
hope is that we look at the mistakes and

the past and say How can people
actually benefit from a real or

real to reverse development that happened
to them as a friend of mine wrote a book

about people on the book part of the
development process were really concerned

about making sure that people aren't
displaced again that you know flooding

doesn't happen again that they are the
the development actually at the value to

the lives of the people that
actually live there and

so where you know part of the session
gets as a resident as a person but

then also after
the national stakeholder or

community benefits movements across
the country if so nice to be at home.

I'm working on a project
in thinking through

what could happen on a great redevelopment
project if it actually happened so

we're excited to be a part of the process.

Again I mean it's even though I've lived
in Somerville since two thousand and

one and very excited about some of the
things that are happening it's all show

a little bit about that right now.

We have been just so
awarded a vision a grant from park ride

to revision our parks and
we will begin that process.

In one I think it will be
probably close today or.

We have about fifteen acres
worth of parks in our.

Community we share part of that with
eighty as we have the former Olympic

training facility in our community
that was gifted to eighty S.

by the city of Atlanta some.

And so we will be working
hopefully closely with them and

rethinking that and our school that sits
on the border between Grant Park and

Summer Hill King Middle School so
we're not only just thinking about

the development of our community we're
also thinking about how it's impacting

children and families how they engage
actually directly with the community

through harps and
creating robust engagement for seniors and

our children and getting people out of the
house and living a healthy active life.

We are hoping to do it beautification
projects along Georgia Avenue

with the trees of land.

And a number of other stakeholders
to rethink Georgia Avenue and

what you do with the blight last
year we had living walls come in and

they for the first son concentrated on one
area they did a record ten year olds in

our community and that was the first layer
of the unification of Georgia Avenue and

we are looking next year for
our first the first step in our.

One hundred fiftieth anniversary
celebration to rededicate Georgia Avenue

back to the community
with a program called.

Coral called.

Georgia On My Mind and
featuring highlights of residents of

summer hell on batteries on our
historic lampposts the ones that have

that are passed the House and
then we have some living legends in our

community like Natalie Jackson
who's ninety three.

And he likes Santa Sal and Herman Russell
who who have grown up in our community and

then we have a lot of babies
as well in our community.

We have a very baby boom and
summer health and so

that means about six people are pregnant.

Be a very small community it's not
a lot but but we really we have

such a robust community and so those are
some of the things that are going on that

the community outside of her feel so
we're living breathing and

existing with this what now is a huge

opportunity that really can chase change
the base of southeast Atlanta and

will be that how to lose to change
the face of southeast Atlanta really for.

Decades and so
we got to get it right thank you.

For your money with my
communal share of UVA and

I literally kid who community the local
would go and see from the field so

you know it was the love of my
YOU who are the look outside and

I see from the field and all the parking
lot flow thought that you so

that's my city because it would
evoke it cools it right there and

someone who ARE IN LOVE YOU DIE
written by people who go look.

Well you study also involve E.C. This is
argue that because you know all the people

here the old whore working with your own
community together you know no one to be

sure that we can see you that is
usually make sure that you use unity.

Of the reform from the field or
whatever me.

Be comfortable with that and so he will
use sure that we don't have to deal with

it would be displeased to real relate to
his three state has today are you leaving.

Craig thank you so much first question.

Sector analyst recant floor.

During the breaks in your case you know
something about it they start counting you

track asked about efforts
lessons learned by every.

Right and they cast.

Because something.

Like a flick of some background there
was a study that was not a real Don't

back in one nine hundred ninety three.

That was adopted a month ago that was
called The Summer urban redevelopment

plan and that was there and was a look at
how to transform the neighborhood given

the challenges of the city you have
the parking lots that are does it have

a huge impact on the physical structure of
the city and a loss of a large scale you

know but wiping out of the sense of the
neighborhood the parking lots and how to

look at you know what mechanisms and
what things could be done to a time should

be developed properties that's thirty some
of subway which I go some time got and

then about four in two thousand and four
when Mayor Shirley Franklin was in office

on she released a new century
economic development plan and

identified six there is throughout the
city to really focus on redevelopment plan

coming up with some redevelopment strategy
has been someone who was one of those and

so the result of that what triggered our
office now supplanted to look at updating

the plan on the summer help plan.

And so the Office of Planning I I
was not directly involved

have been with the cities of mind in
that but I was not like that list study

there are others that numbers I think but
I won't point during her tenure there.

I was not involved in some capacity but.

That some five months working
with the summer Hook community

to look at a number of things land use and

zoning being key what changes to
the current land is that was in place and

the new regulations that I think we're
seeing at the time of inhibiting.

The bill of the tracking down and then
there are also other recommendations some

economic development sent
us grounds identified.

But the study was adopted
in two thousand and six and

as part of that adoption there
were recommendations to rezone.

Sections of the neighborhood and.

Mixture of both laws on a kind of way that
we have a called Mix law that actually

commercial M R C as well as
to monkey family categories

to look at identifying certain
areas essential on Hank Aaron.

And visioning in a six story buildings
with residential with wrongful resell and

then as it's done just that it's
worked on for the new year but

the scale of the buildings that step
down which of the three stories

with the focus and put on a residence
up a combination of town halls and

as apartments and condos and so
that was done back in two thousand and

six and I would say you know we
are somewhere years from now and

we still haven't seen much change so
we've got to land you some ways and

design a place let me just say
well split those zone into flex or

districts that were adopted and
created back in two thousand and

two to look at addressing the built
environment predominately and

have a lot of emphasis on design
requirements and standards so

that as a new development at Stoke and
the zoning and

one of those on categories it would
really have to address the street and so

we have some currency to gain all the
buildings up to engage the street parking.

Lots of these are the side in the rear
of the buildings and not in the front of

there were additional conditions that were
added to that to design that was passed.

One of the conditions of the president
of the sniper fire parking lots so

to discourage carrying down existing
buildings that the creative work and

why not.

Allow for park owner parking to access so

that as a warning as a mechanism
as that that all occurs when a dog

a transformation of a building form
that's in the neighborhood I think so

as one of the design of the candidates
probably than the fact that.

There's you know the sort of unfortunately
you know there's an economic challenge of

low income there's a lot of
vacant property of a lot of other

properties and I think there was also
those that had to kind of look at

all that are better ways to look
at some of those parcels for

to see that on the sort of single parent
homes that others other ways you try to

have some born encourage of consolidation
and assemblage of Harper is so

they could be redeveloped going to where
the foot of the she wants I don't know.

What it's two thousand and six you see
what I mean because that line that

created this state in the neighborhood
that some of the should leave it as a way

to put all of the venom in
the living room and in the area.

I mean was.

That kind of economy started
going basically giving it that.

That's a location the second one
that they usually want where.

Most of the areas that can
get really sickly in public

that means make that goes from
faith that he should do that

since there is a lot of break and
property bills how do you know why do you

think of including that seat that
you got that didn't happen so

we were not able to do that much
we make a ration of it that.

Salivation So is that we can people think
about you who was with a safe company so

that provides incentives to be
theories where they are small and.

Do your jobs and they will we see that
it's that mild of thirty five hundred.

Joke created so
far haven't bring anything up theaters so.

The only people we like we see
an opportunity to create a show

that's the reason we said you have
to bring a C.F. So we awarding

the show be sure and get it well and
get in the main they.

Will little only this but in the five main
misapply that he Konami development for

the C P A where it's all
about the movie you didn't.

Have that I just wanted a lot of the
vacant property and Summerhill the density

have it's on Georgia Avenue which
is which had been converted it's

most of it is some of it is on Hank Aaron
a lot of it is on Georgia Avenue.

It's been used for parking much of it is a
large portion of it as a by one family and

they have held it as a parking because
it was more profitable to park cars

than to actually do
redevelopment on the land.

And.

There are there are parcels
as well that are own by

some a whole Neighborhood Development
Corporation the community C.D.C..

As well as the some there are large
pieces on Georgia Avenue that

are Atlanta Housing Authority and Atlanta
public schools in terms of our parks so

there's a there most of the vacant

properties like has that are used for
parking on shore guys.

Now and then some on Frasier
there some ambulances long.

Disappointed.

Because more mention you know your work
and you can hear you know there were many

plans for it several iterations
of plans at the prize olds and

we're talking opportunity zones
now we're talking a little ball.

Issues we're all of these where
the biggest supporters of advocate big

although a lot of these
plans get talked about and

may end up you know on a piece of
paper many times there's not the will

to see them through and that's where
advocacy really comes into play so

that we can follow through on
that swing so to speak and

that's very important work because you
know years you know we don't want to be

sitting back saying well we got this where
what where their dollars allocated to it

did we get a piece of legislation passed
was it implemented did we execute and

act for us is probably the you
know that's the real issues

a lot of talk about not a lot being done.

That perfect that great Our next question
that Robert Lang elaborate on that like

a nonprofit advocacy group it's certainly
didn't help that it gave the laws and

take our jobs that are very.

Well I think one of the things that we can
do and we do do is to help to the silicate

a conversation to bring He said all of
this together to have a conversation

about what could happen on the part
of you know our job that's not profit

is to bring resources into communities
that would normally have them and so

the more we can leverage funding for
projects in the neighborhoods that are led

by the community the better off we're all
be and so part of our role is to not only

silicate these conversations and this is
a good time for Atlanta because a number

of the national fund foundations are
interested in what's happening in Atlanta.

On the human side and so
making those key introductions and

leveraging that kind of support is going
to be on valuable in this next five years

but also we can listen we can learn we can
research but part of what I think that our

role is is to hold that space
of real community advocacy.

Oftentimes community leaders
are finding by themselves or

with each other over a project and so
part of what we want to make sure that we

do is to hold a cup coalition
together that will fight together for

what they want with they have
collectively decided to do and so

oftentimes it's the day that in the life
situation where you have to me to be

leaders on one side in the city on
the other side and developer there but

often times that the community
doesn't even get a chance to interface

with the developer I think part
of what our role could be and

should be is to hold that space so
that community has a right and

a seat at the table we have to use our
influence to make sure that those deals

are cut if you will in the in the favor of
the community you know there's a lot of

good and well intentioned people out here
but if you don't hold them accountable

if you don't monitor the progress if you
don't eighteen to push that conversation

then as we see it will be thirty years
later and we'll still be talking

about I wonder what would have happened
if we had done it right and so

you know holding that institutional space
of you know this is what you said you were

going to do and making sure that that
actually gets done is part of our role.

Thank you Deborah it's
a very good point and

one of the things you mention was you know
the unity right invocation of the and

I don't just mean nonprofit organizations
like the we go allusion but

the neighborhood associations and beat
you typically you know what happens is

you know these developments get announced
and it's like a foregone conclusion.

Right it's like OK yeah we want to give
you to have a c three more sure but

we need to really consider
the process that's in place for

this book right it's going
to go to our situation.

The Atlanta Fulton County regulation but
what has he or who is on there who are who

actually be voting on this or if the those
are board points because we don't

want that neighborhood and the of
the larger community to be divided and

then we don't get anything
that we want and so

one of the things it as an advocate that
I always try to point out and we try to

point out using art which is which is
unique in that sense because completely

different approach you know it's one thing
the city or maybe make phone cause or

larvae but there's different
ways to influence influences and

one of the big that we really try to make
the connection with is you can't buy for

Kate development human development
human capital from the built

environment you can't do that here just
look at the bell of mint in a vacuum and

say well you know we're going
to put this building here and

we expect these are just
going to transform and

somehow magically our neighborhood
is struggling with poverty and

a long list of other very negative
social economic outcomes indicators for

decades is going to transform and
that's that's not realistic and

so we try to really push as advocates
that we need to take the long view we

need to look at our home as the picture of
the neighborhood that we need to look at

data but more importantly most importantly
we need to give people the residents

an opportunity to voice their opinion and
that's the most important thing for us.

Or in that line.

Are like right now that I see job
creation that's a big issue it.

Takes And now that it's my own.

You know we've had a lot of
the sessions with a motherboard

the people's non-vital vision Corporation
one of these We're always discusses how do

we create more jobs or there's
a disconnect between the skill sets of

people who live in the neighborhood and
the types of jobs in companies that may or

may not want to come to the Navy so
you can get it to be is very high falutin

converses Brownwood spurs economic
development I would probably say it

might mean that and I think most
with economists would agree that.

Sports based stadiums and

the like they don't work obviously
don't work because clearly.

After fifty years of Turner Field
one point count if it had worked but

you would not see by city the way it is
you would not see all of southeast Atlanta

wind largely the way it is it that were
the case you'd have a completely different

situation so and terms of how many net
jobs we're losing Honestly I don't even

open information exists I'm thankful that
there's a few books that can go serve our

high bar and have a little steel jockey
gate get a paycheck doesn't Orton but

is there we're all horizontal
integration help move these families

which people's now and in summer
here are simple low income market

based Section eight apartment complexes
all of those families are in poverty and

are struggling what is the connectivity
there and is there were genuine we'll

see a bigger process and
we're working to try to get a program

called Pathways to to success on
the ground so that we can start to connect

in terms of the skills and that are needed
in the folks in the community and

it's a really difficult conversation
to have but I would say that you know I

honestly don't believe that you know that
the great stadium again in a vacuum has

worked and would continue to work there
really needs to be a more holistic and

I think kind of wrap around approach to.

Really hope of families and
communities become one so sufficient and

I just I just don't see that now.

So we know that the Braves and
what they bring to the Atlanta

economy annually is about one
hundred seventy nine dollars.

That will be lost to the city
the jobs they bring our

jobs to keep people unemployed
underemployed and at the poverty level so

it definitely hasn't been a win for
the community.

Couple things he can happen.

A.T.'s is working vigorously
to get the schools right.

And our community works very
closely with Atlanta public schools

to make sure that out of what we are high
school as Mayor Johnson High School

at the Jackson cluster that
we are aligning students so

what on some love looking unity vision
that the job opportunities will be and

we're starting to see that type of taking
off of our Atlanta School Board and

the leadership in A.P.S. around the city
I think that's first and for months.

I think the other he says.

How he vision the area one of
the things that folks have talked about

is is really how do we
hack a job Turner field so

to work at that down with
invested landside and

the community has to be a really robust.

Conversation about
understanding what people want

versus what can actually
create job growth.

And what can create jobs that
are not just retail jobs but

at the white and grey collar jobs and
how do we zone and vision and

develop the area to make it marketable and
I think to project.

It's that or ahead of us that are going
to be really important to see

the marketability of
the area is underground and.

Civic Center and those are projects
that are being worked on now and

we will be watching that closely but
I think with the L.C.I. that.

Are behind us Summerhill jobs is
the number one thing we want and

Summerhill and we want their first jobs.

I think transportation is well let
me go about the number one thing

is fixing the water issue we have our
neighbors flooding all around us and so

that's out to be done the infrastructure
is number one and then job.

And then transportation and
if we can education and

if we can get all four of those
things kind of in the pocket.

We could all really I think
make the substantial changes

that need to happen to attract.

A a CIO who's looking for
new corporate offices but

Weather Channel who's looking for new
corporate offices and so many of us have

envisioned that Turner Field part of
that become corporate headquarters for

folks who are looking for new corporate
offices there's no reason the proximity to

the capital of proximity to
the airport makes that ideal.

As long.

As Lance is a tale of two cities
if you will the haves and

have nots are right next to each other and
sometimes we walk over each other on

the way to get to where we
have to go the the disparity

of in terms of education with communities
that really need to be retrained or

trained that have been left behind by
the school system is is a concern and

this is the time for
us to retrain our communities in retrain

the young folks that are coming up so
apprenticeship programs for.

Friendship programs and job training
programs are necessary and attracting jobs

to the area that has utilize the skill set
of the community that is already there and

not import other people to take those
jobs it's going to be necessary one of

the things that we started in two thousand
and nine was a job training program on

construction jobs because we saw that
there was a need to really rebuild this

city and so now finally it's been you know
almost five six years now it's finally in

a in a position that we have people that
are definitely trained and willing and

able to participate in the redevelopment
of Atlanta there's enough projects now

that our folks can now go to work the the
challenge is making sure that they can

go to work in their own neighborhoods
you know oftentimes we look at cod and

transit oriented development we
have a train station right there we

have communities right there that need
those jobs so the more we can incorporate

job training job skills with
the jobs that are coming and

attract those kind of job to the
neighborhood the better off will be right.

Next question can we get
effects like dance and

what's.

Going to talk about.

Those of these because a lot longer
than that you don't have access to those

type of well because basically or
they don't I guess you can say for that so

the group of people.

Who she is the door to door to door
just is the best Would you be quote me

even if it is just lower or
even though all the lore full moon use in

people moving all these or
the issues that are going on you're.

Involved though that you use all we do you
can use the referral rules we do for drug.

That we do community clearly you know own
the whole thought of anything OK to you

for you to.

You know but when people go at least
Community clear of the group before drugs

you also get information above the vote
results on the best way to get people

you need without a lot of in order to be
free you either or he's open to seeing

brotherhoods each other.

I think part of that outreach process
is it's really thinking about expanding

our scope obviously the communities and
the we will have a clue which includes

Summerhill mechanics so people sound
at their park in Pittsburgh and

capital gate when I but really they hear
about it in a broader perspective a Who

does this really impact because it's not
just those five communities it packs

downtown right now downtown the residents
of downtown have no grocery store.

And he and parts of downtown and parts
of Grant Park are in an at the a desert.

So we're really looking at
from north of downtown.

And West over across the interstate into

Mechanicsville of that there are in
Pittsburgh down to the South River

east to the border of the city and

really coming all the way back up through.

Rattle sound that cabbage Carol Grant Park
is a huge partner in this and

really educating folks on
how this impacts them and so

the key is to get as many people
are gay around what is the city do for

me and why does this matter and educating
them and we have put together a number of

resources to start that beach and
the education process so

that it's not one tiny
neighborhood it's not for.

Our neighborhoods that make up
a hand ten thousand residents but

that it is many many thousands of
people who are impacted by this and

getting that they gauge
that measures that I can.

Offer.

For everyone how are your
parents collaborating.

And also what other organizations
are you reaching out to

its makers.

Of that is that first list there
are several there are some conversations

going on right now that any basic on
patients facilitating a wonderful series

of community engagement forms
the morning community leaders and

members together if you can
really call it is an R.V.

on the brain is there a lot of
different pockets of work I've kept my

Suzanne I mean there's so
many different markets I think.

The challenge is how do we
get all of the community

leadership because you know Columbus Ward
is in the room longtime community advocate

and you know we have some of the group
bobs of boarded lives in CA helping

these communities and
it's usually been seen as a characters and

I would probably I would propose that you
know we need to have some serious part of

the discussion around what is the future
of the neighborhood what we really want

to see because if we can't come
together around a an agenda or

at least of floor minimum of what
we expect will we feel like we

deserve as part of what comes out of this
development whether that's a community we

believe by community benefits agreement
with some job training components or

maybe our housing can hold it or maybe.

Other ideas that we have as relates
to how can we better use the tax

allocation dollars you know what
anybody would be thinking the.

We're going to be we're going to be out of
it we're going to get a look at a time and

so for me.

It's just about bringing these groups
together and having a discussion so

that we can be speaking from one voice so

that when it comes time to have these
discussions and to be able to influence

the influencers we are in a much better
position to do bad because the whole is

always greater than the sum
of its parts right.

Probably that probably the unifying
partnership is that under any

case the foundation and they are bringing
all the neighborhoods together and

acting as the facilitator of this because
I think it's important we are working as

communities very hard on working
together add individual E.

and having cross conversations
about what will work for

example with our park pride visioning.

There is Resident people sound who
was the visionary behind the D.H.

Sand park he's going to be part of our
organization and part of our visioning

William Teasley and a long time
activists in the people's town community

Michael will work with us so it's not just
free people around the stadium together

it's about on all the other stuff
to be on the graves of three or

three bringing residents from all
the communities together and so

when you do it when there isn't a problem
when there is people are going to come and

show up and so any case it has been kind
of the catalyst of these discussions

that have been incredibly helpful
to to begin to gel in unifiers

around our issues and what's important.

In no other one of the you
commuting on to stand up will

when it is understood first be easier to
sort of see that more about the things

that you develop you know well
the first organizations and

people are we stuck with the stuff
because they have a trunk were before.

What can you be resisting you doing
in gazing at educating long changing

communities and soul if you will for
the first people are Gore's movie because

you know she's been there she's been in
the pharmacy understand this what is going

to happen between the community if you
think if you will develop more in the city

in regards to making sure the citizens
will get with the needy with all of these

developments I mean these these properties
and these ladies will basically can use

little dolls or developers It was lucky to
make use of it if you can read it's a good

little bit and you've been completely
left up we thought you know we've

gotten our theme of the deceivingly or the
message of the week her city behind us we

have resold people for
will argue with us and go over.

There bargain.

But.

I would like.

I would like to highlight that they can
send those if you hit the road it will.

Still be in process so

that is a process that
look similar I think.

Barry actively working
with the neighborhoods we.

Hope will be in the process it will be so

the result of that will be if we should.

Work on that kind of.

So that's a location you see.

Me a little bit.

All.

This.

Economic development tool.

Those results.

Just up the back of the terms of
the cities or the park government edge and

that is I think obvious else
a plan with about some land

where the public provide
a home going to Iraq or

is something already actively involved as
Hermas and some other city departments.

Waterson sort of is part of that at some
point there was a flood in their shoes

whatever sort of goodness could and I know
that our slid out of our guns from their

perception problem solve the sit in them
but also look at a part of public works.

Brought a transition.

From the Shadows or improvement something
else something to even consider as low.

As one and jump in here a little
bit if you have a map that

shows the neighborhoods I think of the one
nine hundred forty six map that you can

starkly look at the neighborhood
in the housing that was there and

then you see this stadium that's there
the hope is that there will be driving

families there eventually again that
there will be help the communities that

the war will flow correctly and
not of people's homes that

people will not have to to
deal with food deserts and

unhealthy communities as it is now but
that only happens with true leadership and

so part of what I think our task
is to make sure that those that

are in positions of power that they
begin to really see this as an asset and

not as an eyesore and that it's beyond it
actually goes beyond the graves of beyond

looking at those great people that have
suffered through this all these years to

be able to have an opportunity to really
live in stay in place if they want to and

not be displaced but that that
that means that we need to push on

our elected officials a lot harder that
means we have to hold them accountable and

that means we have to work
collectively in collaboratively

you know we I just came
off of the Clayton County.

Marta referendum and
I'm hired Excuse me but there was a strong

coalition that will really work
together that said that we're going to

do this because we need transit will in
this case we actually have friends and

ride in the community but they want to
street car they want to grocery store

they want to laundromat they want healthy
houses so it's not that big of a live in.

We all work together.

All right.

Audience questions right and I make

a.

Thank you Uncle remark would open any
commercial development broker to the minor

for forty two years and I grew up in
Atlanta just for background but don't

want to mention the proposal by Georgia
State to take a work on the field and

who of building in the adjacent porking
yours I'd like your reaction to that and

I'd also like to reserve a moment to make
a comment after on your your reaction.

I'll speak on behalf of the community
I think it's really important that.

The lands be taxable.

That we can take advantage of.

Taxing opportunities like Sloss and
the most and

when you have a university.

That land becomes Saxe exams so.

You know we envision hopefully as the id.

We envisaged envision robust jobs and
I've been pretty.

Candid my personal feeling as.

If you look at downtown.

They have not benefited.

Well let me rephrase that they had better
fitted in one way by Georgia State being

better and
that is that there are multiple It's.

A lot whole and places and

I think that's an important mix but

I think we are visioning something
much bigger and the last thing.

With the community and
for the city of Atlanta.

A lot of people who have the same
things about you know the great

student stark development but
I think we need to look statistically it

would be effective eighty
one games a year to last for

four hours that's three of them twenty
four hours a year out of the total year

if the Braves are actually
active in that stadium.

I would like to think that
probably ten thousand students

taking on activities on that property
three hundred twenty five base or

three hundred sixty five days a year
pretty much twenty four seven will create

a huge amount of activity and if you look
around the perimeter of Georgia Tech

there are a number of jobs that
are not just pizza you know

put in burgers there are a number
of jobs across the street if you

advance technology development
center over off the north side.

Of.
The north boundary of between ten to

fourteen I think that says
a lot about what can happen

around the university
center that benefits and.

I also think that if you look at
the area surrounding Georgia Tech it

was already robust before a lot
of the Georgia Tech expansion yet

Peachtree Street which
already has the South ledge

I think it landed station
probably added a lift somewhat.

But you know once again we are a can and
Georgie tack

has always just been at Georgia Tech
here by itself in the neighborhood we

are actually a neighborhood that already
exists we actually have families and

communities and how's the Zen and
all of that I know park is there but

it's but
it really has still slightly different.

Based on its placement and
there nothing else being there

I think we envision that nine hundred
forty Street group coming back and

families actually moving into the lots.

How well that would impact senior sent
thousand students as you say that

I meet personally that's
not appealing to me.

As a resident.

I dealt there not the other day when you
look at Georgia Tech the main campus and

all of the jobs are right there
they're not talking about building.

Learning structures still talking about
adding a second stadium retrofitting

Turner Field and
a second stadium adding a practice field

and ideally adding.

Some fall so once again we are not
looking for more stadiums.

Well I think that will
effect I mean the land so

yeah once.

They're here I mean is that I think a
couple things wire on my part of those and

one of the local Vironment regardless
of who owns the property is how

is that all of it coming in I was of help
because and look at the bring the city and

today it draws out thousands of
people come to those then but

because of the way it's built and now it
does not engage the street no other good

element house and as well as the fact that
we've allowed parking lots to expand and

up and started over the years but were
there are buildings of any construct of

the some commercial buildings that
are there that are vacant why is that when

you have the stadium drawing thousands
of people and it's because part of it is

the way it is and trying to walk as
everything it's going to its goal is to

get people into the building and have them
do everything inside and really the cigar

what they're coming to your coming
through to get to the structure and

some of whether it's stored as
they come in in the future or

pride of that and
I think the key here is ensuring that.

Man there comes then really folks as
I played in that built environment

that talk on the address of the street and
starts tied back into the neighborhood and

that's both with the individual
buildings on the block size as we

have all these super size you know large
flocks looking up creating new streets and

Hanson that connected to that.

Pattern so
loudly at one point the other point.

Which is I can't name because the eyes of
the government under the nonsense that we

Texans out so we're not getting tax
dollars the first part of that is the fact

that I was a no other government agency
and like the community standpoint agree to

not have to abide by those on an ordinance
they don't have to come to the city

to get permits unless that something
that can which is in the right of way so

really done because why
is the university's.

Desire to really fit in and
engage the community in terms of

the built environment and drug attack
when I came here in the ninety's and

the campus that it is versus what it is
today I think it's gotten better I really

tried it's you that in an especially
when you look at how they come over and

over that story but the original plans
which I saw them originally had that

the whole concept was totally different
than what got built up today because of.

That parts of the opposite plan when
it's on my aunt's where the community

stakeholders to really encourage tack to
do the right thing in terms of building

you know a are having buildings and gauge
the built environment so the question then

would be if Georgia state were to
require the property the future.

To how we would be and

I was also proposal changes you know I was
in leadership at the time when they come

in they have a plan one does not plan
came from the leadership changes

when you know again they're not
to see the local zoning laws.

I think it would it ARE GOING TO SAY
come sit there you know.

Looking for.

Me cues that really has the entire
area that would be that

would be an alien boy yes you pay
something back every year or so

beat me to think about creating
this thing that you can see there

we all these wonderful uses words
housing or all the uses he has.

Become sadistic You can say that
anything you wouldn't want.

Somebody else really.

Home right of the book of government
up already I think along the horn of

Connecticut and I woke up.

And checked with your case plan on
the borders of the planet Cajun

of our community around think of it
here that you know the night was about

night but you saw some of that
there's a gauge there that is.

For the council and
I'm not going to go to take the.

Leadership of that and that would be a.

Make sure you're the cops are going to
take up all the boxes I gave the OK but

America we want more of that but
also that we need that reputation

of the people that have we need care about
that help our prayers but also really some

of them on par with a couple of the terms
of the caucus and the neighborhood people

that help OK you know when the first paper
people whatever help they're picking and

put you got to bear some of the furniture
that the neighborhood have and I

guess that I'm going to look at it take a
bit of a spit out there work we'll see of

the character development the neighborhood
they have nothing to do with the status.

But because of the hard work of people in
the community it could take the hard work

of people that don't have a good case for
what your Went to

the relevant knowledge
about that they were.

Not considered part of the hard way
because they because they are so

caught up with the good work up there
without that bankable or because we want

to make sure that we don't have a negative
impact being a complaint is a very good or

bad but
I want to make your article a fact and

apparently write about all of the book The
people that they work we want to make it

all but many of them started to look
see what could be a part of the.

I just wanted to just publicly recognize
Columbus war I think he's going

to be one of those heroes you're about
later on in writing history books about

because he's been in the fight for
a long time and I thank you and appreciate

the work that you've done and you raise
the concerns about community voices that

have been out here in the in the field for
a long time so we know because of your

history that it's not going to go down
the way some people wanted to go down but

I do wanted to reference the question
about doing this day and of course

there's no disrespect brainy institution
that wants to come into the community but

the first notion should be what do
the people that live there war and need

not just what the institutions
need that every thirty forty years

Atlanta goes through our resettlement of
Atlanta in a reshaping of Atlanta and

that's what's happening now and we're
going through those growing pains Well we

often forget about the people that have
weathered the storm and been there for

a long time with out and
so if you take a drive

down some of these streets on
a Tuesday night or Monday night

you will see will that are in need you
will see people walking to a gross.

Store trying to find a grocery store you
will see people that need jobs and so

we can look at that as a need and
desire to fill that need

that the that would meet should meet the
needs of the community that are already

there we should not be destroying
neighborhoods anymore we should be

rebuilding neighborhoods we talked
about transit oriented development and

improving younger people into the core of
the city you have people right there but

we have to care for them we have to help
provide a healthier place to live and

so I hope that the forms
like this will spark new S.

planners and future of my owners to look
at community residents differently and

work with community I love the studios
that you're the tech those because it

takes the students out of the classroom
and into the homes of neighborhoods if we

want more of that any more that we
have to be good stewards ask community

in both as institutional stakeholders of
Georgia Tech as a role in this as well so

we hope that she will help.

Her.