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DEVELOPER PAYS
$55K FINE FOR
ROAD-BLOCKING CRANE,
STATE SAYS
An apartment tower developer has
paid a $55,000 fine for illegally block
ing Peachtree Road with a broken-down
crane in a notorious incident in Decem
ber 2018, according to the Georgia De
partment of Transportation.
The five-digit fine is still considerably
less than the original $351,464 fine GDOT
slapped on Peachtree LLC, the project-
specific company through which develop
er Preserve Properties is building the Sut
ton tower at 2695 Peachtree. The amount
was lowered through negotiations, ac
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cording to GDOT.
Chris Draper of Preserve Properties
declined to comment.
The crane breakdown blocked north
bound lanes for roughly days, causing
massive traffic tie-ups. GDOT, which con
trols Peachtree as a state route, said that
contractor Gilbane Building Company
lacked permits to erect the crane in the
street to begin with.
GDOT calculated the massive fine with
a formula for estimating the economic
impact of road closures, with a standard
value of $17-91 per hour for each passen
ger vehicle that is delayed.
WATER MAIN WORK
ON WIEUCA ROAD
TO RUN INTO DECEMBER
Work to replace and upgrade a water
main pipe on Buclchead’s Wieuca Road
was scheduled to begin May 31 and con
tinue into December, according to a no
tice from City Councilmember Howard
Shook’s office.
The work will affect the section of
Wieuca between Ga. 400 and Phipps Bou
levard. Work is scheduled for Mondays
through Fridays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Department of Public Works officials
said at the May meeting of NPU-B that
the work will upgrade a 6-inch pipe to a
12-inch pipe and will involve temporary
lane closures as the line is moved from
the side of the road to the middle.
BUCKHEAD COALITION
NAMES NINE NEW MEMBERS
The Buckhead Coalition, an invita
tion-only group of 100 business and civic
leaders, has announced nine new mem
bers for 2019.
They include:
Lauren Ball, vice president
at SITE Centers Corp.
Mark Buffington, CEO of BIP Capital
David Dial, managing part
ner at Weinberg Wheel
er Hudgins Gunn & Dial
Mike Fierman, managing partner
and co-CEO at Angel Oak Companies
Jeff George, vice president at Gil
bane Building Company
Heidi LaMarca, president and
CEO of Windham Brannon
Forrest McClain, managing di
rector at Reicon Capital
Jim Simpson, regional president
of Kaiser Permanente Georgia
Jeffrey Sloan, CEO of Glob
al Payments
Julie Bailey is serving as an ex officio
member for 2019 in her role as president
of the Buckhead Business Association.
The Buckhead Coalition is a commu
nity service organization celebrating its
30th year. Members pay $9,000 as annu
al dues.
COUNCILMEMBER SHOOK DISCUSSES ATLANTA CYBER
ATTACK ON ’60 MINUTES’
Atlanta City Councilmember Howard Shook is
interviewed about the 2018 cyber attack on “60 Minutes.”
Atlanta City Council-
member Howard Shook
appeared on the CBS
News program “60 Min
utes” May 5, where he dis
cussed the city’s response
to last year’s cyber attack.
Shook, who repre
sents Buclchead’s Dis
trict 7, was among sev
eral guests on a segment
about hackers who re
motely disabled comput
er systems and encrypt
data in plots to extort
money from businesses and governments.
Asked by “60 Minutes” reporter Scott Pelley about the city’s decision not to pay
the ransom for its data, Shook said, “At first, it was just instinctive. I mean, if you’re
being violated, I don’t know why you should reward somebody for having done
that.”
The March 22, 2018 attack on city computer systems had wide-ranging, and of
ten permanent, effects, including massive data losses in the City Attorney’s Office
and in the police department’s dashcam video archives. Municipal court records
and water billing were among the services temporarily affected. All three comput
ers in Shook’s office were rendered useless and he lost most of his files and a con
tact list he had built over 17 years in office.
Later last year, two Iranian men — Mohammad Mehdi Shah Mansouri and
Faramarz Shahi Savandi - were indicted on federal charges for allegedly commit
ting the Atlanta attack and similar extortion schemes around the U.S. and Cana
da. Prosecutors called it “21st century digital blackmail” that allegedly resulted in
more than $6 million in ransoms to be paid.