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HOUSING RESOURCES COMMITTEE Examples of Current Housing Interests in Atlanta August 7, 1969 1. Dale Shapiro Urban Systems Research and Engineering, Inc. 20 State Street Boston, Massachusetts This organization is following up on recommendations contained in the Kaiser report pertaining to certain ten ta ti ve ·locations listed in the Model ·cities area. This firm is interested primarily in obtaining sites through Public bodies for low-rise housing development and would like to obtain a suitable site in Atlanta Model Cities area. 2. Miss Marion Morris and Mr. Robert J. Corietta Field Operations Modular Building Program Urban Systems Development Corporation (USDC) Crystal Plaza Building 1 2001 Jefferson Davis Highway Arlington, Virginia 22202 This firm is interested in obtaining a suitable Industrial site (about 10 acres) i n Atlanta for erection of a modular housing plant; also interested in obtaining apartment zoned land for erection of town-houses; also single family. This firm is understood to be a subsidary of Westinghouse. 3. Alan L. Hoffman, Chief Exe cu ti ve Officer National Housing Council Suite 403, Plaza One Bui~ding One Main Plaza East · Norfolk, Virginia 23510 See attached news article, from the Times Herald, Newport ~ews, Virginia, July 22, 1969. Mr. Hoffman has informed me that his Group has a commitment to HUD to produce 25, 000 housing units and frankly admitted that they are looking for cities which will cooperate with them in making suitable sites available, obtaining a ppropriate zonings and reasonable cooperation on C odes. They are inte re ste d primarily in apartments both low and high-rise . He reports little enthusiasm or encouragement from the Housing Authority . �-24. Mr. Ray Watt, President National Housing Partner ship Corporation Washington, D . C. Tel. Area Code 202 - 638-6840; and Mr. Philip N. Brownstein Parsons, Tennent and Zeidman Attorneys and Counselors Suite 900, 1025 Connecticut Avenue, N . W. Washington, D. C. 20036 This organization was authorized by the 1968 Housing Act and is just now getting organized for business. This corporation expects to have firm commitments by October this year of $50, 000, 000 w hich it proposes to invest, in partnership with substantial local building inte rests, in major cities {including Atlanta) for low and moderate income housing developments, including the Rent Supplement program. 5. Breakthrough - A HUD sponsored and subsidized prototype project. This project proposes selection of at least one prototype housing site in each Region of HUD {possibly 2 sites in 2 of the Regions) and is designed to create a working partnership of Federal, State and local gover_n ments, labor, industry, the financial community, home builders and consumers. Proposals for participation in the program may be made by local city officials, housing authorities or sponsored by private developers or financial institutions, but must be endorsed and supported by the appropriate elected officials - Governor, Mayor or County Commissioners. Applications must be submitted to HUD by September 19 and require quite involved administrative details. Suitable sites must be made available, (5 - 30 acres to accomodate up to 100 units), agreement to place under Federal control and management, make necessary adjustments in codes and arrangements made for eventual d i sposition of the tract and prototype housing. In view of Atlanta's w idely publicized leadership in the low and moderate income field, it w ould appea r desirable for the City to make application (pe r haps th r ough the Housing Author i ty) for one of these Regional Prot oty pe s i tes . 6. Jim Hol ec Inter national Pha rr Road i n Buckhead Tel. 237-2 34 0 This gentleman claim s t o r e pre sent both U nite d State s and Eur o pean money interest s . He ha s control of the S e v e~th Da y A dve nti s ts tr ac t o n Kimberly Road, already zoned for apa tfment s , a n d w hic h he w o uld like to develop for Public Hou s ing, but reports little coopera ti o n o r i ntere s t from the Hou s ing Authority . He claims he ha s c ommitted $7, 000 ,0 00 in th e last 3-4 months and still h as $5, 000, 000 to c ommit, which he w o uld l ike to put in housing projects in Atlanta. His firm has recent substa ntial developments in Beria, Kentucky; Bambridge, Connecticut and in the Congo. �-37. Mr. Nicholas Berryman Adams-Cates Company, Realtors Has a 21 acre site, zoned· A-1; off South Expressway just south of the Vocational School which he applied to the Housing Authority last May for commitment for Public Housing . He claims that the Housing Authority has shown little or no interest and only about 3 weeks ago asked the Planning Department for an opinion and availability of City Services. July 29, Mr. Berryman requested assistance of this office in_getting a reply to the Housing Authority from the Planning Department. Also, Mr. Berryman is involved in the annexation to _the City of the site West of Kimberly Road, opposite the Seventh Day Adventists' property, and has applied to the Housing Authority for commitments for Public Housing. This property is zoned Apartments, Residential and small amount of Commercial. The prospective developers do not propose to ask for rezoning, but are willing to develop as is, and fq.rthermore to build a pumping station at their expense and dedicate it to the City, to lift the sewage over Kimberly Road to existing out fall sewer; or to contribute $100. 00 per unit to the City to help pay for sewer facilities. 8. Mr. W. L. Moore, Attorney and Builder Rhodes-Haverty Building Atlanta, Georgia Tel. 523-0595 Has applied to the Housing Authority for commitment for about 500 Public Housing units on a 57 acre tract he controlls south of C ascade on Harbin Road, which tract is already zoned for Apartments . 9. The Atlanta J. c.•s {Mr. Bill Ogan Tel. 521-1971) This local organization is currently seriously trying to obtain a suitable tract of land on which to relocated some 320, or portion thereof, single-family houses now on the J . P. Stevens and Company property, which_ are avaUable {or relocation and rehabilitating under FHA programs. · These houses are basically sound, range from 1 bedroom 0 -to· 4 bedrooms and can be obtained from the J. P. Stevens and Company for practically nothing. 10. Mr. Gaston J. Greil, Senior Vice-President Algerman Blair, Inc., Contractor P.O. Box 749 Montgomery, Alabama 36102 Tel. 205 - 263-1616 This gentleman is interested primarily i n obtaining apartment zone.cl land that will be politically acceptable to the City on which to build Feder ally assisted low and moderate income housing. · �-411. Mr. Clinton E. Jones, Field Engineer Georgia-South Carolina District Portland Cement Association Tel. 404 - 688-4376; and Mr. Jim Forrest, President Corewall Corporation P. 0. Box 16 McDonough, Georgia 30253 Tel. 957-5626 These people are interested in building a factory in Atlanta for production of precast concrete modules; and in construction of experimented· housing units, preferably in the Model Cities area, using this method. 12. Mr. Stanley Ashley and Mr. Richard Bell Pope and Carter Company, Inc. John Hancock Building Tel. 522-9491 This local firm has an exclusive on a 33. 6 acre tract at the intersection of Carroll Road and Harvill Road, N. W. , which they are offering for sale. This property is adjacent to a recently acquired elementary school site, has access to sewer and lies beautifully. It's current zoning is M-1 {the extent of which is for in excesi;; of industrial use needs in this general area in the foreseeable future). This property is in a racially mixed area, and would provide an ideal location for a prototype housing site under operation breakthrough, which development should have a strong influence on stabilizing this area. Encl: News article (See item 3) �