Sembler won’t get schools
January 18, 2008 at 4:24 pm by Scott Henry in NewsThe DeKalb school board voted this morning to deep-six a controversial proposal to sell three school buildings and a stadium to Sembler to make make way for a mammoth shopping center and condo development.
After months of community protests over the potential loss of the school property, the final vote was somewhat anti-climactic. Sembler had recently decided it would build a smaller project, so it only needed a third of the school land, Superintendent Crawford Lewis told the board. The board voted unanimously to simply forget about the whole deal.
Sembler is still planning to develop another 70 acres on Briarcliff Road that it has under contract from the county housing authority, but the loss of the school property means no frontage on North Druid Hills Road. That, in turn, means plans for a grand boulevard linking the two roads will likely be scrapped.
In other words, it’s back to the drawing board for all concerned.
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