'Downtown DeKalb' has a jail in its way
What if you had a plan, a really massive plan, one that dealt with developing all sorts buildings and amenities in what might be a prime, well-located piece of real estate.
But there's one problem. A really big jail, a whopper of a correctional facility, dominates the landscape and makes potential visitors a bit creeped out by the notion of going there with the kids.
That is the dilemma of DeKalb County's Interim CEO Lee May, who has proposed creating what he calls Downtown DeKalb on I-285 and Memorial Drive. So, what is he going to do about it?
In today's Bill Torpy at Large column, Torpy suggest that May should be building something else first.
About the Author
Bill Torpy, who writes about metro Atlanta for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, joined the newspaper in 1990.
