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Officials hunting for new
City Hall closer to home
Bf MELISSA WEINMAN
melissaweinman@reporternewspapers.net
Brookhaven City Hall still shows all
the signs of a new office: blank walls,
clean desks and file cabinets yet to be
filled.
Even though city officials have only
been in the Ashford Dunwoody Road
office building since December, council
members already are on the hunt for a
more permanent city hall.
The city signed a one-year lease for its
temporary city hall, located in the city of
Dunwoody. The lease will run out at the
end of 2013.
At a recent work session, City
Council heard from three real estate
brokers vying to find the city its next
home.
Their main message? Get moving.
“All of them made the point that we
needed to start looking yesterday. Time
is of the essence,” said Councilwoman
Rebecca Chase Williams.
Councilman Joe Gebbia said the city
will likely need to settle on a building
by the fall to leave time to build out and
furnish the space so it’s ready by the end
of the year.
“The objective is probably to choose
our building by October,” Gebbia said.
Brookhaven will likely be looking at
a three- to five-year lease in an existing
commercial building, Williams said.
“It’s a longer term [lease] than what
we’re in now, but it’s somewhat open in
terms of how long we would be in what
ever this next space is,” Williams said.
“We still think this next location is not
our forever-after home.”
One of the challenges city officials
will face as they search for a new City
Hall is the limited commercial real es
tate in the city limits.
While the city was still taking
shape, the Governor’s Commission on
Brookhaven had a difficult time locat
ing a building for city hall. The facili
ty needed to be large enough to accom
modate the city’s administrative staff,
be furnished and ready to move in, and
have a landlord willing to have a munic
ipal government as a tenant.
“Some of the landlords didn’t want
to have a government tenant in there,”
Gebbia said.
So the best option for Brookhaven’s
temporary city hall ended up being out
side the city.
As the officials set out on their
next search, finding a suitable space in
Brookhaven will be a priority.
“The objective, obviously, is to be
home based,” Gebbia said.
Williams said the city will not be los
ing money when it leaves its current lo
cation.
“The good thing about the space we’re
at is we didn’t do any build-out and we
don’t have any money invested in it, per
se. It came furnished,” Williams said.
“When we get ready to move, everybody
packs up their laptops and moves to the
next location.”
Williams said building a city hall
could be a possibility too, though it’s
less likely.
“I think all options are on the table.
We would have to just really examine
specifics of each one,” Williams said.
Brookhaven Government Calendar
Brookhaven City Council usually meets on the second and fourth
Tuesdays of each month at 7 p.m. at locations to be determined.
For complete and up-to-date schedule of Brookhaven city meetings,
go to http://brookhavenga.gov .
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