Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter for sale
March 6, 2009 at 1:27 pm by Thomas Wheatley in News
The AJC reports the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless has quietly put its Peachtree Street headquarters up for sale.
The asking price for the 96,000-square-foot building is $10.5 million, Kansas said.
“This is to weigh the options and see what can really happen,” Kansas said. “We’ve gotten a significant amount of interest from people local and out of state, but no formal offer yet.”
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Kansas said that while he thinks the Task Force would “love to stay in the building, the fact of the matter is that the Task Force only uses about 30 percent of that entire building.
“It’s very under-utilized, and you’ve got a premium location and, frankly, a use that’s not desired on Peachtree,” [Gene Kansas, the developer handling the potential sale] said.
In 1997, Coke heiress Ednabelle Wardlaw purchased the former United Motors Service building for $1.3 million and donated it to the center. In a Dec. 2008 article about the shelter’s woes, executive director Anita Beaty told CL she was looking forward to an estimated $13 million renovation of the building.
If you’re in the market for prime property on the city’s most famous thoroughfare, submit your offer before the March 16 deadline.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
March 6th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Anita Beaty has stated the shelter property is not being sold, merely marketed in an effort to find an equity partner.
May 17th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Dear Scott,
I re-read your article and realized you never asked us what service providers we have excellent relationships with. We even provide them with donations and volunteers, etc. Your story was very biased, clearly negative in tone and even disdainful of the Task Force. You obviously believed the comments without asking about the relationships with those folks who were the most critical. There is so much you didn’t ask. THere is so much to uncover. Too bad you are biased and show it so clearly.