The Atlanta Opera broke ground Monday afternoon on the Molly Blank Center for Opera and the Arts at the historic Bobby Jones Golf Course Clubhouse along Woodward Way in Buckhead. The project celebrates Atlanta’s history with the renovation of the Bobby Jones Clubhouse, designed in a neoclassical style, which opened in 1941. On the back […]
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Chattahoochee Riverkeeper and Bobby Jones Foundation agree on plan to protect 25-foot stream buffer
The Chattahoochee Riverkeeper and the Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation have negotiated an agreement that would have less environmental impact on the 25-foot buffers along Tanyard and Peachtree creeks.
Earlier this year, the Foundation had applied to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division to encroach within the state-mandated 25-foot stream buffer. But the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper strongly objected to those plans.
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New controversy emerges over Bobby Jones golf course redevelopment
The environmental destruction surrounding the redevelopment of the Bobby Jones Golf Course continues.
The Chattahoochee Riverkeeper is strongly opposing a plan by the Bobby Jones Golf Foundation to encroach within the stream buffers of Tanyard Creek and Peachtree Creek.
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The tree massacre at the Bobby Jones Golf Course a blow to Atlanta
Back during the Civil War, the land that is now known as the Bobby Jones Golf Course was a battlefield that witnessed one of the bloodiest battles of the Atlanta Campaign.
Today, the Bobby Jones Golf Course has become a battlefield once again. But this time, the casualties were more than 800 trees that were cut down to make way for a redeveloped Bobby Jones Golf Course.
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Underground Atlanta sale enabled by golf course swap; continues sale of city assets
The Atlanta City Council voted Monday for a plan that enables the sale of Underground Atlanta to a developer. The plan calls for the city to deed over to the state of Georgia the Bobby Jones Golf Course.
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Atlanta’s swap of Bobby Jones Golf Course for a state parking deck rife with complexities
Atlanta city officials plan to meet one final time with residents, on Friday, before the Atlanta City Council’s slated vote on June 6 on the proposed transfer of Bobby Jones Golf Course to the state. The deal involves multiple transactions, including one that will end Atlanta’s interests in the old World of Coke building.
