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City Springs
HANNAH GRECO
The concrete “triangle” across the street from City Springs holds
billboards that the city is attempting to remove.
Future park site stalled
by billboard lawsuit
BY HANNAH GRECO
hannah@reportemewspapers.net
Mayor Rusty Paul says he has heard sev
eral complaints from residents and has his
own frustrations with the “eyesore” proper
ty on the east side of Roswell Road across
from City Springs. The city has long aimed
to spruce up the area with a park and paths,
but projects have been stalled due to a law
suit over booting three billboards from the
property. The suit has been drawn out for
a year.
City Attorney Dan Lee said at a Nov. 19
City Council meeting that the city cannot
redevelop the land until a judge issues an
order for the signs to come down.
“I have been getting a lot of questions
about the property...the wasteland, as it’s
See CITY on page 28
BY HANNAH GRECO
hannah@reporternewspapers.net
Downtown Sandy Springs is bustling
with grocery stores, with a new grocer fil
ing to enter the already saturated market,
which means more choices for residents
and competitive pricing. But in the North
End of the city, there are significantly few
er options and proposed stores for the area
have not panned out.
In October, Lidl, a discount German gro
cery store, filed a permit with the city to
open a store in Sandy Springs in the City
Center Crossing Center at 6337 Roswell
Road.
Within a 2-mile radius of the hub of San
dy Springs, City Springs, which is just a
block from the proposed Lidl, there are sev
en major chain grocery stores: Aldi at 6336
Roswell Road; Kroger at 227 Sandy Springs
Place and 4920 Roswell Rd; Publix at 6615
Roswell Road; Sprouts at 4600 Roswell
Road; Trader Joe’s at 6277 Roswell Road; and
Whole Foods Market at 5930 Roswell Road.
Tosh Wolfe, the director of retail services
at real estate firm Colliers International’s At
lanta office, said downtown Sandy Springs
is an ideal market for grocers because of its
mix of urbanism and suburbanism.
“Looking at Sandy Springs demograph-
ically, it is a great opportunity for grocers,”
Wolfe said.
But the North End, which spans about 4
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