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Buckhead buyer of derelict properties may have a new company

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June 1, 2015

Buckhead real estate investor Rick Warren, facing possible jail time for conditions at his properties, has used a dozen anonymous limited liability corporations to buy up west Atlanta's impoverished English Avenue neighborhood. Warren was the focus of a November investigation in the AJC.

Another LLC may have come to light Wednesday, during the first of what could be many trials over Warren’s code enforcement citations. His lawyer did not say what, if any role Warren plays at Canopy Development Group, LLC., but public records give hints.

Since the company’s founding in September, it has purchased a dozen properties, all in the English Avenue area.

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Willoughby Mariano is an investigative reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she focuses on housing and criminal justice issues. She previously worked for the AJC's PolitiFact Georgia, where she fact checked the claims of elected officials, and at the Orlando Sentinel, where she covered crime and breaking news.

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