The Atlanta Journal-Constitution plans to move its newsroom and other operations to a new location in Sandy Springs on the campus of its parent company, Cox Enterprises.
In a memo to staff on Monday, AJC Publisher Amy Glennon said the newsroom, advertising and other office operations will move in 2017 to an eight-story building at 6325 Peachtree Dunwoody Road in Sandy Springs. The new building is about a mile from the paper’s current offices near Perimeter Mall.
The building is currently occupied by the Manheim auto auctions company, a subsidiary of Cox’s automotive division, which will move elsewhere within Cox’s Sandy Springs campus. The AJC will move along with the shared services division of Cox Media Group, the memo said.
“By residing on the Cox campus, our divisions also will realize even stronger collaboration and best practices in areas like digital, research and employee training,” Glennon wrote to AJC staffers.
The AJC moved from downtown Atlanta to its current location at 223 Perimeter Center Parkway in Dunwoody in 2010.
The Dunwoody building is part of a large tract of land where, in 2007, a Boston development firm pitched a massive mixed-use community called High Street. GID Urban Development Group proposed a blend of 3,000 mid- and high-rise residences, hotels, office towers and street front retail. The company said then that it planned to start construction in 2009, but the project was delayed.
People in the real estate industry have told the AJC that GID is moving toward future development of the site. Several large companies have examined it as part of searches for future office space, the people said.
The current zoning calls for at least half of the 3,000 permitted residences to be for-sale units. Messages left for GID executives were not immediately returned.
Michael Starling, Dunwoody’s economic development director, said the city has had “no official word” about a start date or if the scope of the project has changed.
“The discussion has always been about (a start date in) 2017,” Starling said.
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