Dads and daughters packed Spalding Drive Charter Elementary School for a night on the town Saturday, Feb. 6, as Sandy… Posted by Reporter Newspapers on Monday, February 8, 2016

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Better pedestrian and bicycle travel on Glenridge Drive could be coming in a “Complete Streets” plan the city of Sandy Springs will present at a Feb. 17 meeting. The plan aims to improve Glenridge Drive between Roswell Road and the Glenridge Connector. The city eventually will include “Complete Streets” principles in any major road work, […]

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Massage parlors that offer illegal sexual services could be shut down as “public nuisances” under a new Sandy Springs city ordinance in the works. At the Feb. 2 City Council meeting, City Attorney Wendell Willard said that certain problem massage parlors and spas continue illegal business by changing owners after police crackdowns. “Even though you […]

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A 1-acre extension of Sandy Springs’ Abernathy Greenway Park is in the early planning stages, and the city is seeking community input on what it should include. The parcel, at the northeast corner of the Abernathy and Wright Road intersection, was originally slated as parking, but residents complained about that. The city held a Jan. 20 […]

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The city of Sandy Springs will buy a Hammond Drive residential lot as a placeholder for its long-planned road-widening project, the City Council decided Feb. 2. The $375,000 purchase of 590 Hammond sparked some community concerns of the road widening secretly beginning. But City Manager John McDonough said the project still needs years of planning […]

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Roswell Road remade as “Roswell Boulevard” with a tree-lined median? That’s among the “big ideas” coming out of Sandy Springs’ “Next Ten” planning process that were previewed by City Council at its Jan. 26 retreat at Lost Corner park. The general public can weigh in on the draft results at a Jan. 27 public meeting […]

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Work on a controversial project to build roundabouts at the Riverside Drive/I-285 interchange in Sandy Springs will begin Feb. 1, weather permitting, and continue through November, according to the state Department of Transportation. The $5.6 million project will replace ramps with roundabouts and rehab the Riverside Drive bridge over 285. GDOT says the roundabouts will […]

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Sandy Springs’ single-family homeowners are off the hook for building new sidewalks in front of their houses for now—and maybe for good, as the city considers ways to pay for such projects out of municipal coffers. In its quest to create sidewalks in a suburban city, the City Council has repeatedly tweaked a policy that […]

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It’s taking a lot longer than serving up a combo meal, but the Wendy’s fast-food restaurant at 8455 Roswell Road has a reopening in the works two years after a fire shut it down. “We are working with our insurance company to get it rebuilt and remodeled, and hope to open soon,” said Jay Long, […]

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A 31-unit townhome project, planned for Roswell Road just south of the Abernathy Square shopping center in Sandy Springs, got an early vetting from residents at a Jan. 11 community meeting. The developers, Pulte Group, were willing to work with neighbors on the main concern of landscape screening. The project site is a narrow, largely […]

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The city of Sandy Springs has launched a new online database where people can view building permits, check on code enforcement requests, and see the status of such land-use changes as zoning variance requests. The new system, at build.sandyspringsga.gov, allows searches by permit type, date, address, permit number and project name. It also allows builders […]

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A top official from the federal school nutrition program taste-tested some of the free meals offered to students at Sandy Springs’ Lake Forest Elementary School on Jan. 12, where one girl schooled him on eating less sugar. Kevin Concannon, an under secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture overseeing the school meals, also met with […]

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The Apostles Church of Sandy Springs at Glenridge Drive and Hammond Drive is targeted for demolition and redevelopment into a 201-unit senior housing project in plans filed with the city.

The Apostles Church of Sandy Springs building at Glenridge Drive and Hammond Drive in a Google Earth image.

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