Developer applies for mixed-use project just east of Decatur
Alliance Realty Services recently applied to DeKalb’s Planning Commission for a proposed mixed-use project at East Ponce de Leon Avenue and North Arcadia Avenue, which first drew attention last November.
Plans appear slightly different from those unveiled back then. They include 270 residential units, 55 inside Decatur and the rest in unincorporated DeKalb. There’s also a 45,600 square foot grocery, probably a Publix though nothing’s been officially announced.
The new application doesn’t include the aging strip mall with the methadone clinic on Ponce and North Arcadia, whose owner reportedly doesn’t want to sell. The land is currently zoned light industrial and totals nines acre, with one of those in northeast Decatur.
Attorney Den Webb who represents Alliance met with several Decatur neighborhood groups last week where he emphasized that any groundbreaking is at least two years out.
“It is still conceptual and we are still considering all the alternatives,” he said. “This project will change, or it could go away. We will know more about what direction it’s going in the next 30 days.”
The next steps include the application’s hearing by the District 4 Community Council on Feb. 21, the DeKalb Planning Commission on March 7 and the county’s Board of Commissioners March 28.
