Ugh! Dickens appears to have taken thousands of dollars from the Affordable Housing Fund and used it to pay consultants who pushed for his TAD renewal initiative.
Also: support local journalists! @atlpresscollective.com did great work on this.
Big kudos to Julian Bene for being such a great advocate for getting big commercial properties (including data centers) valued properly for taxes! This means millions more dollars for public services like schools.
Looks from this thread like Council is not rolling over for all of Andre’s TAD power grab.
Thanks, ACPC, for covering this in real time for those of us unable to be there to watch the “fun”.
Owners of large commercial properties should not be exempt from blight penalties!
If Council passes this, the city's tax bill on the skeletal Campanile tower, which has blighted Midtown for several years, would go from $91,000 to nearly $2.3 million.
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Never forget...
"We will create a more equitable transportation network in our city. We'll add bike lanes, sidewalks, complete streets, and yes, rail on the Atlanta Beltline."
-- Mayor Dickens' inaugural address to Atlanta
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If a city tells you they have $100M to construct the largest police training facility in the country in the middle of a global pandemic, but the only way to fund grocery stores, hospitals, transit, and schools is to borrow money from your children’s futures…it is OK to have questions and concerns.
This is pretty spot on.
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#Atlanta #TIFs #TADs
Atlanta was supposed to do this but Mayor Andre Dickens rejected millions in earmarked regional funding and the pleas of local businesses and residents to dismantle Shared Peachtree, directly leading to two pedestrian deaths.
It was rumored he did this to appease a single Republican oligarch.
The level of dishonesty coming from this administration and the Beltline Inc. is unmatched www.ajc.com/news/2026/06...
Curious about the impact of the impact of the Mayor's updated Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative (NRI) on Atlanta Public Schools? I built a #shinyapp where you can see how changing TAD closures impacts future Atlanta Public School revenue. Check it out here - nickspiva.shinyapps.io/tad_app/.
Blight taxes are often used for abandoned residences, but they can also be applied to commercial properties. Some City Council members want the Campanile project to be taxed.
The pedestrianization of Broadway through the heart of Manhattan just expanded, and it's glorious:
And here it is! New hyperscalers going to be valued fairly, with big revenues from the three that have opened, with more to come next year. At least Fulton and APS will get something to offset the impact of these things.
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The first amendment on the floor establishes that no bonds can be taken out against the TAD-extension without a redevelopment plan. The vote amendment is added with a unanimous vote.
A second, similar, amendment is added.
