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It’s a small sale in terms of the overall size of Grady Health System, but this one is significant.

The authority that oversees Grady has sold an unused building and parking lot in Roswell. Proceeds from the sale will pay for community-based health care services aimed at reducing the amount of costly care people otherwise may seek at Grady’s emergency room.

This real estate sale is the latest example of the extent of change that has swept over Grady since the reorganization of the region’s largest public hospital.

Atlanta’s development authority is slated to adopt a plan to create jobs and spur economic development at about the same time Atlantans begin considering whom to elect next year as mayor and to the Atlanta City Council.

Invest Atlanta has agreed to pay consultants $265,000 to devise and deliver a plan by December. Invest Atlanta is expected to consider adopting the plan at the end of the year, or in early 2013.

The consultants’ bill will be paid by Atlanta Housing Authority, Georgia Power, Central Atlanta Progress, and Invest Atlanta. Mayor Kasim Reed serves as chairman of the board that oversees Invest Atlanta.

A spay and neuter program for animals whose future offspring may otherwise be destined for DeKalb County’s troubled animal shelter will be the beneficiary of a bowling fundraiser scheduled for Sunday afternoon in Stone Mountain.

Proceeds of the event will go toward a sterilization program in a county where more than 5,000 animals a year are euthanized, according to a report issued in February by a county task force.

DeKalb’s a kill rate was about 60 percent of the 8,500 animals handled annually at the county’s shelter, according to the report. DeKalb’s rate is higher than reported in Cobb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties, although those counties handle fewer animals.

So many big transportation proposals for metro Atlanta are in the cauldron that even some top policy makers have trouble keeping pace.

As GRTA board member John Sibley III said of one region that has two major projects planned and a study underway: “I have a problem seeing what is likely here.”

Sibley got his questions answered about the I-75 and I-575 corridor, in Cobb and Cherokee counties. However, the answers prompted his colleague, Dick Anderson, to wonder aloud about the campaign message for the July 31 sales tax for transportation.