GwinnettForum | Number 20.92 | Dec. 18, 2020
NEW PURCHASE: Gwinnett County government is buying 39 acres of Gwinnett Place Mall for redevelopment. The shaded-green areas show the portion that the county is buying for $23 million. The county already owns the blue-shaded area for its transportation study. For more details, see Today’s Focus below.
New feature is presented starting today
(Editor’s Note: After requests, today GwinnettForum starts a new feature, listing paid obituaries important to the Gwinnett area from families. The notices come from local funeral homes at the request of families of the deceased. See these notices at the top right of right side of each web page.—eeb)
TODAY’S FOCUS: County buys 39 central core acres at Gwinnett Place Mall site
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Nightmare of horrors! More TV political commercials coming our way?
ANOTHER VIEW: Feels the United States has lost its way in election process
SPOTLIGHT: Aurora Theatre
FEEDBACK: Congratulations overdue for work and foresight of Wayne Mason
UPCOMING: County names courthouse expansion building for Charlotte Nash
NOTABLE: Northside Gwinnett adds 71 bed unit in speedy expansion
RECOMMENDED: Gwinnett Public Library virtual interview with Elliott Brack
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia had more rail miles than any Southern state in 1830s
MYSTERY PHOTO: Stately church in beautiful setting is today’s Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Hudgens Art Center has exhibit of photos of Richard Calmes
CALENDAR: Food Giveaway is Saturday at Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Lilburn
County buys 39 central core acres at Gwinnett Place Mall site
By Joe Sorenson
DULUTH, Ga. | Gwinnett County government has purchased 39 acres of the Gwinnett Place Mall site for an Urban Redevelopment Agency (URA) make-over. The property is being purchased for $23 million from Gwinnett Place Mall GA, LLC, a subsidiary of Moonbean Leasing and Management LLC, which has owned the parcels at the core of the 90+ acre retail development since 2013.
The purchase is part of a strategic effort by Gwinnett’s government to create new opportunities for catalytic development in the area in partnership with the Gwinnett Place CID and local property owners. The acquisition is expected to close in 90 days, at which time management of the site will be transitioned to the URA, which was activated by the Board in 2009 with a focus on “rehabilitation, conservation or redevelopment” of necessary areas within the county.
Charlotte Nash, chairman of the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners, says: “This will be a tremendous asset for Gwinnett. We’ve been working for a number of years to purchase this property that is central to our community’s geography and its recent history. There’s incredible opportunity here, and I believe that with careful planning and involvement from the community we can create a redevelopment that will be a place of pride for every Gwinnett resident.”
Proximity to Interstate 85 and the destination’s central location within Gwinnett County have made the property a key focus for leadership within the County. The Board has worked with the Mall’s current owners (Moonbean) in their efforts to revive the struggling shopping center since the company purchased the 39-acre parcel at the core of the mall property from Simon Property Group Inc. in 2013. In the coming months, the County will begin a comprehensive planning process to explore ways to redevelop the site, actively engaging the County Department of Planning and Development, the Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District and county residents to set a new vision for the property.
Joe Allen, executive director of the Gwinnett Place CID,says: “The Community Improvement District is deeply appreciative of the County’s purchase. The area has been stagnant for many years, and this brings the long-needed opportunity to reposition and redevelop the mall area into a location that aligns with the community’s needs.”
Completed in 1984, the Gwinnett Place Mall site encompasses more than 90 acres. The mall fell on difficult times in the mid-2000s as key tenants moved to regional malls, even as surrounding shopping centers continued to thrive. The property not included within this sale will remain with respective current owners, whose current tenants – Macy’s, Mega Mart and Beauty Master – will not be impacted by this purchase. The URA will work closely with these groups to ensure alignment on goals as planning and revitalization begins.
In recent years, the County has acquired other parcels near the site, totaling 10 acres, to develop a new transit center. Additionally, these purchases will provide potential areas for stormwater management and other infrastructure needs associated with the potential redevelopment of the mall site.
Nick Masino, president of the Gwinnett County Chamber of Commerce, is excited about the purchase.“In recent years, Gwinnett has invested in several strategic economic development projects, including the master-planned Rowen community, WaterTower, the OFS site, the Stone Mountain Tennis Center and more,” said Masino. “I know I speak for all Gwinnett businesses when I say that we are thrilled that the revitalization of the Gwinnett Place Mall can finally begin!”
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Nightmare of horrors! More TV political commercials coming our way?
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
DEC. 18, 2020 | Want to hear something really scary, perhaps more terrifying than Halloween activities or horror movies?
Just follow these steps of what could happen.
- For the Georgia U.S. Senate runoff races on January 5, there’s probably going to be strong support for both Democratic and Republican candidates. The races could be very close.
- Remember that in the General Election race, a total of 115,639 Libertarian voters cast ballots for Shane Hazel in the Perdue-Ossoff race.
- So, should these Libertarians return to the polls, and cast a write-in vote for someone other than the main candidates…..neither the two Republicans nor the two Democrats might get a majority of the votes again.
- So, we could have……yep, another runoff!
Horror of horrors!
That would mean another six weeks of television dominated by far-out political slinging of mud. That might cause some viewers to yell and scream: “I can’t stand it any longer,” with shoes, ashtrays, baseballs and anything handy slung at the TV screen.
Meanwhile, the television managers have to resort to using wheelbarrows to haul political advertising dollars to the bank…..scary, isn’t it?
Well, worry not. This nightmare can’t happen. You see, Georgia laws in election runoffs do not allow any write-in votes. Only in the General Election are people able to write in names of others for offices. So, while the election for senators could theoretically end in a tie….it cannot be influenced by write-ins! Someone must win in a runoff election.
Whew! That’s a relief! Maybe television advertising can return to the more tasteful attorney commercials, medical remedies, and offering of other items we don’t need. We won’t have to ask the Libertarians to stay home.
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Wearing masks these days is getting to be more standard for most of us. If it will keep the COVID away, nothing wrong with that.
Yet it amazes me how wearing masks completely takes away your personality.
- People cannot easily recognize the real you. (So we really see why bank robbers wear masks. They work!)
- Masks hurt understanding. After all, facial expressions help move a conversation.
- Masks also take away people’s personality. You don’t know whether the other person is smiling, sneering or snarling at you. Nor you him. We never previously realized how much facial expressions help in talking to one another.
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Check-out lines in grocery stores can be frustrating. You never know which line will move faster. Seems even if you get in the shortest line, someone ahead of you will have picked up something that has a bad barcode on it, or the cashier has to go find out the price. You may stay in line far longer than what you thought it would be in the other lines. Oh, well.
We’ve noted a similar situation when trying to turn left at a road intersection. When you’re been waiting in line for a while, why is it that the traffic going straight gets to move before you do? Yep, you’ll have to wait while the straight traffic moves on before the left turn lane light comes on.
Or, similarly, if you’re attempting to drive straight through the roadway, that’s the time the left turn lane both ways will go first….as you wait this time to go straight.
Why is it? What really makes it bad is a long trip through the county on heavily-trafficked roads, stopping at several lights, and this happens over and over. We bet it happens to you, too. Why is it?
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Feels the United States has lost its way in election process
(Editor’s Note: Here’s one person making a case questioning our voting system. We run this to show how doubt can creep into the system.—eeb)
By Bill Griffin
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. | We have lost our way.
After the 2016 election this poll shows that 52 percent of Democrats believed there was hacking of voting machines. In June 2017, University of Michigan professor of computer science Dr. Alex Hardman stated at a U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, “I know firsthand how easy it can be to manipulate computerized voting machines. As part of security testing, I’ve performed attacks on widely used voting machines, and I’ve had students successfully attack machines under my supervision.”
In December 2019, U.S. Senators and former presidential candidates Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren, along with Senator Ron Wyden, expressed concerns about voting machine vulnerabilities in a letter. Their concerns include Dominion Voting systems, the system Georgia uses.
Would you trust a valuable item to the U.S. Postal Service? Put a valuable item in a drop box?
Anonymous voting must be a mandatory practice, not an option. Recipients of ballots that are mailed are coerced, financially induced, or intimidated by political parties to vote a certain way, or not at all. Mailing votes are certainly “inclusive” and convenient. But, can they truly reflect the will of the voter?
According to research by John Lott of the Crime Prevention Center, within the European Union 63 percent don’t allow mail-in absentee ballots even for citizens living outside the country. This September 2020 Newsweek article details how casting illegal absentee mail-in ballots is easy, simple, and hard to detect. In May 2020 the Daily Signal, published by the Heritage Foundation, references 1,285 proven cases of election fraud.
The Georgia primary was held in June. In September, three months later, Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger said 1,000 people double voted, “knowing full well that they had filled out an absentee ballot, had mailed it back in, and then showed up on the day of election.” In a CNN article, University of Florida political science professor Michael McDonald says about Raffensperger’s claim, “We have to be cautious of these claims because the error may actually be with election officials, it may not be with the voters.” Whatever the cause of the double voting, both Raffensperger and McDonald indicate that voters should distrust election results.
These tenets are vital to decent people: only eligible residents vote (once), voting is done anonymously, that tabulations are transparent, and that a vast percentage of the citizenry trust the results. Current processes are convoluted and easily misunderstood.
National Public Radio reports that Facebook distributed $350 million to 500 jurisdictions for election expenses and that “the money proved indispensable.” There was also a disclosure that “Facebook is among NPR’s financial supporters.” The article quotes Rachael Cobb, associate professor at Suffolk University, saying about the money, “But over time, it in and of itself is corrosive.” Governments accepting private funds for election operations is a repugnant practice that Georgia should ban.
Many countries are served well with same day in-person voting in decentralized locations, with decentralized tabulations. The Georgia Legislature should enact laws that establish simple and uniform voting processes that will re-establish confidence.
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Congratulations overdue for work and foresight of Wayne Mason
Editor, the Forum:
Thank goodness your contributions to the County and State are being recognized. Jimmy has to be smiling.
— Ashley Herndon, Oceanside, Calif.
We may be racing ahead of our ability to handle matters
Editor, the Forum:
In retrospect I sure miss you and your columns and you smiling face in the newspaper, even your sometimes brash demeanor.
I turned 80 this year. My former barbecue place closed for good recently, probably a victim of COVID, but George Richbourg was in poor health too. The Lawrenceville destination is no more, but today seemed to be replaced by a bar on every corner, fine restaurants and lots of foo foo shops.
There are more townhouses and apartments in downtown Lawrenceville than there were people during your tenure with “A Few Words.” Small towns across America are disappearing at an alarming rate. Even the political culture is different, and now even medicine has gone to pot, no pun intended.
Cory Oakes, local political pundit, had it right when I was on the Lawrenceville City Council, saying knowledge is racing ahead of our ability to handle it. I’m not sure we have left our children a good world, but then I’ve become pretty cynical. We had a good life that will seem antiquated to the new generation, but that won’t be a lot different from our thoughts.
— Stanley R. Gunter, Lawrenceville
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County names courthouse expansion building for Charlotte Nash
Courthouse expansion nearing completion
Officials Tuesday cut the ribbon on an expansion of the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center in downtown Lawrenceville. The $75-million expansion project includes a five-level parking deck, open since 2019, and a new, five-story courthouse building set to open to the public this spring.
The courthouse addition is being named the Charlotte J. Nash Court Building in honor of the current commission chairman, who did not seek re-election. She has served as chairman since 2011 and previously served the county as Grants Manager, Budget Manager, Financial Services Director and County Administrator, before retiring in 2004.
She was born and raised in Gwinnett.
The project to expand the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center has been in the works for more than a decade. Originally approved as part of the 2009 SPLOST program, plans for the project were put on hold during the recession, when it was uncertain whether the county would be able to staff and operate the building once complete. Officials broke ground on the project in February 2018.
This five-story addition to the courthouse facilities provides space for a jury assembly room as well as eight courtrooms, holding cells, workspace for the District Attorney, mediation rooms and space for up to six additional courtrooms.
Chief Superior Court Judge George Hutchinson mentioned that the addition will benefit Gwinnett’s court system He said: “The Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center has served us well over the years, but the new addition will offer us the opportunity to move cases more effectively and efficiently through the court system for the benefit of all concerned, especially now at a time of great need.”
Of the new naming, Chairman Nash said: “I’m overwhelmed and deeply honored by the decision to place my name on this beautiful facility,” Nash said. “There are so many deserving individuals who have been instrumental in Gwinnett’s progress, and most accomplishments are the result of team efforts.”
Opening December 21 will be a covered walkway from the parking deck, a security node at the entrance to the Nash Court Building and a new, enclosed pedestrian bridge to the existing GJAC building. The full court building is expected to open to the public this spring.
Company purchases and upgrades Norcross multi-tenant office park
Avison Young Atlanta has partnered with Greenleaf Management to lease The Station, a 110,172 square foot multi-tenant office park located at the corner of Holcomb Bridge Road and Atlantic Boulevard in Norcross.
The property, which is in a qualified Federal Opportunity Zone, features nine buildings that occupy 10.64 acres and is within walking distance of historic downtown Norcross.
Built in 1984, Greenleaf Management purchased the property in March of 2019 and immediately began extensive interior and exterior design upgrades. The Station sits directly off of Peachtree Industrial near Holcomb Bridge Road giving tenants easy access to Georgia Highway141 and Interstate 285.
Chris Godfrey, senior associate of Avison Young, says: “As a result of COVID-19, more companies are looking for smaller suburban office options closer to home, without large parking decks and elevators. The Station fits the bill. The unparalleled access to downtown Norcross, as well as nearby retail and restaurant options, is beneficial, but the location within an OZ creates tax benefits for new tenants that are unbeatable.”
Northside Gwinnett adds 71 bed unit in speedy expansion
Northside Hospital Gwinnett in Lawrenceville is the first hospital in the southeast to install the STAAT ModTM (Strategic, Temporary, Acuity-Adaptable Treatment) units to care for COVID-19 and other critically ill patients.
They are being opened in a 71-bed unit which was turned over to Northside on December 7. The 46,983 SF of units were connected to hospital infrastructure provide 71 patient rooms to care for a variety of patients. STAAT Mod units were constructed at The Boldt Company starting in August and shipped via semitruck to Northside beginning in September for final site installation.
These units, designed by HGA and prefabricated and assembled by The Boldt Company, were some of the earliest solutions in the United States for expanding hospital facilities. The innovative STAAT Mod is highly engineered to hospital quality standards and easily flexes to provide traditional inpatient capacity or critical care.
The units can be operated with or without airborne infection isolation rooms (AIIR) that provide increased safety for both patients and caregivers. The acuity adaptable rooms installed at Northside are a mix of critical care ICU, Airborne Infection Isolation (AII) rooms, and lower acuity spaces such as Step Down, Medical Surgical, and Observation rooms.
Debbie Mitcham, CEO of Northside Hospital in Gwinnett and Duluth, says: “The Atlanta region is experiencing rapid growth and, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, we began looking at opportunities to increase our bed capacity and flexibility to handle an influx of patients. In less than four months, we’ve been able to do what would normally take us 15 months, and this investment enables us to provide a quality and a durable solution to serve our community throughout the uncertain curve of this infection.”
New president of Public Broadcasting Atlanta previously with Turner
Dorian
Jennifer Dorian, a 20-year veteran of Turner Broadcasting and WarnerMedia, is the new president and CEO of Public Broadcasting Atlanta (WABE radio and TV Channel 30.) Scott Woelfel, who served PBA as interim CEO throughout the search process, will continue in his role as chief content officer. Dorian says she looks forward to applying her experiences at Turner to build audience engagement and bring in new revenues at PBA. She is a graduate of Emory University and holds an MBA from the University of Texas. Dorian’s father, David Easterly, was publisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and later as a top executive of Cox Enterprises.
GACS Can-A-Thon surpasses 20,000 items for Gwinnett Salvation Army
Greater Atlanta Christian School’s Can-A-Thon outdid itself this year, rising to the challenge of providing non-perishable food items in a more significant way than ever before. Already a community leader in the Salvation Army’s annual Can-A-Thon, this year the school collected a record 27,000 cans, surpassing last year’s record of 20,000 cans. Captain Paul Ryerson of the Gwinnett County Salvation Army spoke in chapels to the GAC students and shared how the pandemic has created food insecurity for many families globally and locally. In response, the parents, students and faculty/staff rolled up their sleeves with determination to make their collections an even more meaningful impact during this difficult year. The annual Can-A-Thon is sponsored in the Atlanta Area by Publix and 11Alive and is active through December 31.
Duluth resident, 75, among 500 new grads of Georgia Gwinnett College
Lively
More than 500 students graduated during Georgia Gwinnett College’s fall commencement recently. One of the graduates is Janet Lively, 75 of Duluth, who is a wife, mother of six and grandmother of 11. She enrolled in GGC in 2012, taking one to two classes each semester. For the past eight years, Lively, who graduated from high school in 1962, juggled classes, homework and babysitting her youngest grandchild. “Sometimes I would hang back during a group project to see if anyone volunteered to take the lead. If no one did, I jumped in and didn’t mind taking charge,” she said. “We would sit and joke together, it was fun.” She now has a bachelor’s degree in history, with honors.
Gwinnett Public Library virtual interview with Elliott Brack
From Rick Krause, Lilburn: My wife and I watched the Gwinnett Public Zoom interview with Denise Auger of veteran newsman Elliott Brack. Being totally entrenched in Gwinnett County as he is (a resident since 1974), and certainly a student of the subject, Elliott sounded more like a seasoned historian than ‘just’ a newsman. His knowledge of the history of Gwinnett County was astounding to us, and we have lived here and ‘paid attention’ to goings on here since 1972. If you have an interest in the county, and whether you have read his book Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta, or not, this 55-minute ‘class’ on the history of Gwinnett County is a must. Access it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skAg13NYyH4”
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Georgia had more rail miles than any Southern state in 1830s
Georgia’s first railroad tracks were laid in the mid-1830s on routes leading from Athens, Augusta, Macon, and Savannah. Some 25years later, the state not only could claim more rail miles than any other in the Deep South but also had linked its major towns and created a new rail center, Atlanta. The railroads continued to expand until the 1920s, when a long decline began that lasted into the 1990s. Today, the state’s rail system is a strong, 5,000-mile network anchored by two major lines, Norfolk Southern and CSX, and a couple dozen short lines.
Charleston, S.C., provided the impetus for rail development in Georgia. In 1830 it began building a 136-mile railroad to Hamburg, on the Savannah River opposite Augusta. Savannah businessmen, worried that Charleston would benefit at their expense, responded by organizing the Central RailRoad and Canal Company. The state legislature, meeting in Milledgeville, issued a charter for the company in December 1833. The canal division of the company was soon dropped in favor of the construction of railroads, which were not as limited as canals with regard to where they could be built. Construction began in December 1835. The Central RailRoad of Georgia eventually became the Central of Georgia Railway, a 190-mile line across the Coastal Plain to Macon.
Meanwhile, construction on the Georgia Railroad between Augusta and Athens and on the Monroe Railroad (later the Macon and Western) between Macon and Forsyth, was in progress. The Georgia
Railroad Company was chartered to a group of Athens businessmen in 1833 for the purpose of building a railroad from Augusta west into the interior of the state. In 1835 the charter was amended to allow banking operations, and the name was changed to Georgia Railroad and Banking Company. Company headquarters moved from Athens to Augusta in 1840. The Georgia Railroad was completed to Marthasville (later Atlanta) in 1845.
In the northwestern part of the state, an effort was underway to build a “state railroad” to the Tennessee River, a rail link that would open Georgia to the trade of the Tennessee and Ohio valleys. The state-owned Western and Atlantic Railroad (also known as the W&A), established by the state legislature in 1836 and completed in 1851, connected with Chattanooga, Tenn., and accomplished that goal.
(To be continued)
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia article online, go to http://georgiaencyclopedia.org
Stately church in beautiful setting is today’s Mystery Photo
Here’s a beautiful photo of a church. The setting may even give you a few clues for today’s Mystery Photo. Tell us where it’s located, and give us some history of the photo. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
Dependable George Graf of Palmyra, Va. gave details on the recent Mystery Photo:
“Famous Personality – Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, (1908-1984) was an American actress, artist, and singer. Her portrait was painted by Artist Rosemarie Sloat for a 1971 Gallery exhibition, ‘Portraits of the American Stage.’
“What Costume Is She Wearing – She chose to be depicted as Annie Oakley from Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun. It was a defining role for her, providing the anthem that became her signature song, There’s No Business Like Show Business. Opening at the Imperial Theatre on May 16, 1946, Annie Get Your Gun ran for 1,147 performances.
“Where Does This Portrait Hang – National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and on view in the “Bravo!” exhibition, on the museum’s third floor mezzanine. (See my photo attachment).”
Merman in the National Portrait Gallery.
Others identifying the photo include Marlene Buchanan, Snellville; Howard Hoffman, Berkeley Lake; Lou Camerio, Lilburn; Bo O’Kelley, Peachtree Corners; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; and Sarah Davis of Lawrenceville.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. added: “The painting was gifted to the Smithsonian Institution by Ethel Merman herself. The exhibit label for this particular painting offers more information about Ethel Merman:
“In 1930 the Gershwin musical Girl Crazy opened on Broadway, and toward the end of the first act, an unknown singer named Ethel Merman mesmerized the audience with her rendition of I Got Rhythm, in the course of which she held a high-C for 16 bars. As Merman later put it, by the time the applause died, ‘a star had been born. Me.’ Over the next five decades, her booming voice and brassy style were the main attraction of some of the most successful Broadway musicals ever, including Anything Goes, Gypsy, and—-whose score included her trademark song, There’s No Business Like Show Business. Of her singing technique, Merman once said, ‘I just stand up and holler and hope that my voice holds out.’”
PHOTO EXHIBIT: On view at the Hudgens Art Center through January 30 2021 will be the photography of Richard Calmes of Hiawassee, formerly of Gwinnett, which captures the explosive and graceful essence of dancers in motion. Calmes discovered a love of dance photography in early 2005. His gift for lighting and his encouraging rapport with dancers quickly made him one of the most sought-after photographers in the U.S. Based in Atlanta, the once architect now builds portfolios of images that showcase the beauty of professional dancers, as well as advanced students. His dynamic work effortlessly seizes the power and emotion that can only be expressed through dance, garnering him international acclaim.
Food and Toy Giveaway will be Saturday, December 19, at 10 a.m. at Salem Missionary Baptist Church, 451 Killian Hill Road, in Heritage Hall. It is hosted by State Reps. Jasmine Clark and Dewey McClain. Families and individuals are welcome to pick up food and toys ahead of the holidays. Food and toys will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis.
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