Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Architectural firm takes job to create a City Center design that revives all of downtown Alpharetta.
Alpharetta awarded a $1.45 million contract to a firm for master planning, architecture and landscape design services for its City Center. City Council on April 10 awarded the contract to Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart and Associates. Voters approved a $29 million bond referendum in November 2011 to fund the City Center project in downtown Alpharetta. The conceptual plans presented to voters, and which they helped shape in public meeings, show a new City Hall, a public parking garage, a 5-acre park, a 1-acre town green and the infrastructure required. Seven qualified bids were submitted, with Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart and Associates being the recommendation of staff and a bid review committee. "I think the thing that …
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Monday, November 7, 2011
Ballots for Alpharetta and Milton include Sunday alcohol sales, Fulton Schools education sales tax and in Alpharetta, a $29 million bond referendum
Voters in Alpharetta and Milton have more than City Council members to elect. They also have two or three ballot questions local officials want answered, ranging from the Sunday sales of alcohol by retail stores to an education SPLOST. Sunday Sales Votes in Both Cities Voters in both Alpharetta and Milton will get to decide if retailers in their communities can sell beer, wine and liquor in package sales. Until now, only restaurants can sell those by the drink on Sundays. Most communities in the surrounding area put the question on the ballot. It could happen that communities vote differently, leaving some cities "dry" for retail stores on Sundays, and some allowing the sales. Even if approved, the measure gives the retailers the right to …
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Local residents will vote on a $29 million bond referendum needed to fund the City Hall, parking, town green and other infrastructure for the 22 acres of downtown land.
While empty strip centers can be spotted around Alpharetta and the area, a half empty downtown looks more distressing to city leaders and perhaps visitors to the city. The third incarnation of a City Center development has been proposed to revitalize downtown. This time a bond referendum is planned to fund construction of a new City Hall, a town green, development of a 5-acre park and the parking deck needed for downtown. The parking deck is needed because the Alpharetta branch of the Atlanta-Fulton County Library will be built on the City Center site, with the provision that the city provides 125 parking spaces for it. Two major complaints are made about the existing library branch: it's too small at 10,000 square feet and the 37 parking …
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As council members Paine and DeRito helped work on the current plan, which needs voters to pass a bond referendum on Nov. 8 to build it.
UPDATED, 3 P.M., Oct. 28: Mayoral candidate David Belle Isle took it on the chin from his opponents over his backing of a public-private city center plan that failed during the Alpharetta High Debate Club candidate forum on Oct. 26. Jim Paine and Doug DeRito participated in the forum, but Belle Isle left after making an opening statement. His two opponents fault him for his support of a public-private partnership in that previous City Center plan, which DeRito attacked as being sole sourced to one developer with no bidding process. And DeRito said Belle Isle has received a campaign contribution from that developer. Belle Isle, in his opening statement at the forum, said he supports the current City Center plan and has a passion for …
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The Debate Club sponsored the forum.
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
The City Council approved the first reading of an ordinance to put a $29 million bond referendum on the November ballot to fund the project.
Alpharetta City Council made its fourth and final public input meeting tonight on its downtown redevelopment project a bit more "real" by its first vote to put a $29 million bond referendum on the November ballot. The city started its public proposal for its city center project on May 23 with a concept plan proposed to get local residents involved in helping to figure out what should be built on the 22 acres of land City Council assembled in downtown Alpharetta. A few items were required and are on the ballot measure: a new City Hall, a parking deck and a 5 acre park. A new public library branch is planned on the site after the city offered up 3 acres of land and sufficient parking to the Atlanta-Fulton County Library Board. The parking …
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
The City Council wants voters to approve a bond referendum that would fund infrastructure and public buildings in downtown.
In just a few hours Alpharetta residents get yet another chance to tell City Council what they want downtown to look like. When that body's downtown redevelopment was reintroduced, city leaders promised to make it "your" downtown. Today's meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. at Alpharetta City Hall. After a review of the financing for the project and requirements, city staff and consultants have been bringing residents up to speed on the latest ideas. Then the residents are asked to add their comments and suggestions. Last week residents moved buildings around on a map of the site, trying to figure out where they wanted the different features of the 22-acre site. City Hall was moved around, as was the parking deck. Many residents wanted to move …
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No Name
9:51 pm on Wednesday, July 27, 2011
The parking deck price tag is 20K per parking space so that is $9M. Put it underground and the cost is 40K per space. With part of it now underground you are looking at least one third of the total bond initiative that will go toward parking. There are too many successful town squares without big parking decks so I'm not convinced we need one. I believe Duluth's City Hall had a $13M price tag. more ›