The final DeKalb County employees vacated the Callaway Building recently, leaving it empty for the first time in nearly 40 years. Decatur bought the building from DeKalb several years ago for roughly $5 million and will now sell it to Cousins Properties for that same price plus any costs incurred.
Closing is set for July 1.
Those extraneous costs include at least $30,130 to excavate, later this month, one diesel and one gasoline tank dating to when Callaway housed almost all county operations including a fleet of trucks. The building will be demolished roughly 90 days after closing.
Cousins’ planned development for the site include 329 apartments and a 40,000 square foot, four-story structure, with a ground floor for some retail and the upper three stories for office only (Decatur hasn’t had a new downtown office building since 1991). Construction should start by the end of this year or early next year.
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