By Allison Joyner Movie mogul Tyler Perry Monday evening unveiled his plans to turn an additional 37 acres of Fort Mac land into an entertainment and residential district. It was Perry’s first-ever public meeting with the community since buying 330 acres of the now-closed Fort McPherson property in 2015. Perry bought the 330 acres, which […]
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Tyler Perry on new Fort Mac deal: ‘It’s an incredible moment in time’
In an exclusive interview Friday morning, media mogul Tyler Perry described the vision for the entertainment district he will develop on the 37.5 acres that he is buying next to the existing Tyler Perry Studios.
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Megachurch leader T.D. Jakes’ company to purchase around 94 acres of Fort McPherson site
And Tyler Perry is buying another 37.5 acres.
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Megachurch leader company’s secret plan for Fort Mac gets 30 more days to negotiate
T.D. Jakes Real Estate Ventures has gained another 30 days to negotiate a still-secret redevelopment proposal for a still-undisclosed portion of southwest Atlanta’s former Fort McPherson site. Jakes leads a megachurch in Dallas, Texas called The Potter’s House and runs a religious multimedia business. In March, the Fort McPherson Local Redevelopment Authority granted his real […]
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Bishop T.D. Jakes’ real estate company in talks to buy unspecified acreage at Fort Mac
About 132 acres of the former fort have yet to be redeveloped.
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Reporter’s Notebook: Princely grant for historic Masonic hall renovation
Also, Andruw Jones’ company is seeking a medical cannabis grow license.
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COVID-19 may make Fort Mac, Tyler Perry Studios short-term landlords, of a sort
Some studio staff may stay at work.
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Fort Mac parts ways with would-be developer, says settlement is $3.5 million
The split between Fort Mac and Macauley Investments has been in the works for months.
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Fort Mac and the city at odds over millions of dollars
Over years, the city of Atlanta has spent millions of dollars to help keep the doors open at the agency that’s overseeing the redevelopment of 144 acres of Fort McPherson. But now that Fort Mac has some cash to pay back loans, the two sides don’t agree on the amount owed.
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Atlanta’s ‘can do’ spirit fading into ‘dysfunction junction’
Some days living in Atlanta is depressing.
Last Thursday (Oct. 17), was one of those days – marked by two events back-to-back.
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Fort Mac to buy out would-be developer, search for a new one
A top leader at Fort McPherson says he thinks redevelopment work on 144 acres at the shuttered base can start in 2020. But first, there’s the big job of finding a developer.
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Fort Mac board weighing Moody-Macauley development plans
Fort Mac’s board got a new pitch Monday for a team that would remake unused acres of the former army base. Now, the master planner, Macauley Investments, wants to partner with David Moody, CEO of C.D. Moody Construction.
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Two months after announcing it, Fort Mac board votes to approve building sale for FDA
An announcement from Fort Mac in June was clear: the agency was making a $17 million building sale. Federal scientists and staff would move into a disused command building.
That sale has just now gotten the 10-1 approval, with one abstention, of the board of the McPherson Implementing Local Redevelopment Authority.
But the board still has yet to take any action on the question of a developer who has in sight the bulk of the roughly 144 acres of the former fort.
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Gov. Kemp asks Cassius Butts to come back as Fort Mac’s board chair
At the urging of Gov. Brian Kemp, Cassius Butts has agreed to temporarily rescind his resignation as chair of the Fort Mac Local Redevelopment Authority and remain in that volunteer position at least through the next board meeting on Aug. 26.
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Fort Mac developments in doubt due to messy backroom deals
A real life tug-of-war is playing out at the Fort McPherson Local Redevelopment Authority.
At stake is the future development of 144 acres of the 480-acre property that once was the Fort McPherson army base in southwest Atlanta.
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Fort Mac redevelopment leader resigns
The public authority that’s overseeing the redevelopment of Fort McPherson has a new interim executive director. The turnover at the top comes amid media reports of a serious conflict between the authority and a key contractor, plus revelations of cash flow problems.
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Questions surround future of Fort Mac redevelopment
The behind-the-scenes dealing at Fort McPherson reminds me of Marvin Gaye’s song: “What’s going on?”
The questions are numerous.
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Records show Tyler Perry Studios interest in the rest of Fort Mac
Tyler Perry Studios is interested in exercising a right to make an offer on the approximate 145 acres of the former Fort McPherson site that it doesn’t already own, according to official text messages from earlier this year.
But so is a developer that’s been publicly working on a plan for about two years.
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Fort Mac board meets, but no decision yet on development agreement
The board of the public authority that’s overseeing the redevelopment of Fort McPherson met Thursday for the first time in four months. Its executive director was not present and board members asked about getting more information before they vote on a milestone plan for 145 acres of reconstruction.
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Fort McPherson signs first tenant
Movie mogul Tyler Perry and the veterans’ medical campus at Fort McPherson are getting a new neighbor: the Wolf Idea Group is setting up headquarters and a showroom at the shuttered U.S. Army post in southwest Atlanta.
