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According to a recent report in the AJC, the owners of Studioplex, a live-work loft community carved out of a century-old cotton warehouse in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood, is adding more than 9,000 square feet of retail space. The development, which features 112 residences and 18 offices, is about 80 percent sold.

The Atlanta City Council approved on Monday a bond sale for the proposed Beltline project and the establishment of new boundaries for the Downtown Development Authority.

Tuesday night the Suwanee City Council voted to do what it has done before —- postpone a controversial annexation application along Smithtown Road, according to a recent article in the AJC.

Homeowners in many parts of Georgia may get less than the promised $100 average rebate from a property tax cut approved by legislators last week, according to state and county officials.

Attention Developers, Engineers, & Builders
April 1, 2007 Deadline

In a 3-1 vote, Gwinnett County Commissioners Mike Beaudreau, Lorraine Green and Kevin Kenerly increased the salaries for their part-time, elected jobs from roughly $14,000 to $29,000 annually. 

According to an article in this week’s Atlanta Business Chronicle, State Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond reported on Monday that most of the state’s 200,000 employers will get a “$100 million unemployment insurance tax cut starting January 2007.”

The following are permitting and review cut-off dates for Johns Creek and Milton through November 15, 2006.  When the cities become incorporated on December 1st and  a new schedule is distributed, we will be sure to update you.

Both the Fulton County Taxpayers Association and Atlanta resident John Woodham are contending the authority Atlanta is currently exercising as it prepares to sell bonds to buy land along the Beltline–to the tune of $200 million–according to a recent article in the AJC.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, nicknamed “ICE”, is getting serious about the number of illegal fugitives in this country.