School Board Votes Against Selling Adams Stadium Land
Paul Womack said the land could be valuable for a future high school site.
The DeKalb County Board of Education voted Monday not to sell Adams Stadium and some of the school system's adjoining land, possibly because it could serve a future high school that would relieve already overburdened classrooms in the area. The board voted 6-1 to keep the land off North Druid Hills Road, which was recently appraised at about $18 million, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. School board chairman Eugene Walker said DeKalb no longer needed the property nor the adjacent International Student Center. Read the rest of the AJC story for more information. Discussion of the sale began over the summer when the school board was debating serious budget cuts. Adams currently serves as a number schools' football teams, and …
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Jim Bobber
9:53 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
What are you implying Don? That Marist doesn't want blacks on their campus? Why is the wealth or lack thereof of Marist remotely relevant? You're letting personal biases affect and cloud your decision-making ability. A time value of money analysis would likely yield that the millions gained by selling the site (and interest made from said monies) would more than outweigh payments to Marist (or … more ›