Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Residents and city officials discuss the situation -- and potential tax credits -- inside the Old Town building.
The pending sale and redevelopment of Pierce's Corner in Old Town Suwanee likely won't happen unless federal Historic Register status -- and the resulting tax credits -- is obtained, officials said recently. It's "not feasible" to buy and redevelop the vacant, two-story building on Main Street without those credits, Norcross attorney Michael Deming Sr. said Saturday in Suwanee. He and other members of the Deming Group LLC and the Downtown Development Authority, which announced the lease-purchase deal with the Deming Group in December, met with Old Town property owners about the matter. "We'd like to have the road cleared to go through" with the process of buying and redeveloping the site, Deming Sr. said. "We're making an investment to …
Friday, December 2, 2011
Norcross-based group to buy and redevelop 100-year-old building in Old Town.
History was in the air Thursday night in Old Town Suwanee. David Pierce, a 79-year-old Suwanee resident, was among those gathered at a business on Main Street. He brought along his sister, Elizabeth Payne, 89. "The building is in better shape now than when my father bought it," David Pierce said of Pierce's Corner, a vacant brick building a short distance away. But vacancy no longer is the only option for the building. Officials of the city's Downtown Development Authority announced, after about a year of proposals and discussion, a lease-purchase deal to sell the 6,000-square-foot site to a group led by Norcross attorneys Michael Deming and Michael Deming Jr. Also involved are Chuck Warbington of Gwinnett Village CID and Robert Gresham …
Monday, July 25, 2011
Gwinnett group and Atlanta developer make an offer to revamp Pierce's Corner.
Updated 4:54 p.m., July 26, 2011 Suwanee city officials have a good-faith agreement with a Norcross-based group and an Atlanta-area developer for the sale and renovation of the vacant Pierce's Corner building in Old Town. Alison Starnes, Suwanee's Downtown Development Authority manager, said last week that initial plans call for the building, originally constructed in 1910, to be a combination of office and retail space. "We're excited," Starnes said. "It's a positive step." Officials have been reviewing proposals since the Jan. 31 deadline. City Attorney Gregory Jay will draft the final agreement, but city staff has been allowed to proceed with plans. It's not sure when work will begin. Attorney Mike Deming Sr. of Norcross is one of the …
Vernon Jones
8:53 am on Friday, November 2, 2012
So the city FINALLY takes steps to preserve what is left of historic Suwanee, and because they didn't care as well as you would have preferred in the past you are now going to work to block the preservation? I'm not sure if that makes sense... more ›