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T.D. Jakes’s master plan presented to Fort Mac committee, public

The LRA approved the proposal to develop 95 acres of the former Fort McPherson Army Base. By Allison Joyner On Wednesday evening, T.D. Jakes Real Estate Ventures (TDJREV) presented its vision to build affordable housing and entertainment districts at Fort McPherson to committee board members in charge of operations and the public at large.  The […]

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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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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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