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City Ready to Sell 2M-SF Building

ATLANTA-Mayor Shirley Franklin is asking developers to bid on the 10-story, 75% vacant former Sears warehouse and distribution center on Ponce de Leon Avenue. The city is also ready to help finance the redevelopment of the City Hall East structure in which it has invested $30 million to date.

By Alex Finkelstein | Updated on December 23, 2003

ATLANTA-City Hall East, that 77-year-old, 10-story former Sears warehouse and distribution center on Ponce de Leon Avenue could have a new owner and a new face by this time next year if the city’s plans to sell the structure and finance its redevelopment pans out.

The project would be one of the largest of its kind Downtown in decades, area brokers tell GlobeSt.com.

Mayor Shirley Franklin is formally asking developers to bid on the two million-sf, 75% vacant property that still houses parts of the Atlanta Police Department, the city’s 911 call center, the Atlanta Fire Department and the city Department of Public Works.

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