Friday, January 18, 2013
Town still waiting for interested parties to submit application to develop the site.
It was the event of the summer. Approximately 100 Belmont Hill residents descended into Town Hall on a warm August night to protest the town's plan to accept blueprints by an Atlanta-based real estate development firm to construct a single-floor hospice in many of their backyards. Residents slid up to the microphone and told the Belmont Board of Selectmen that building the facilities on five-and-a-quarter acres of town-owned land off Woodfall Road adjacent to Belmont Country Club would be a disaster: ambulances and hearses coming down quiet residential roads filled with children, the impact of a business in the property values in this neighborhood of homes, and the possibility the commercial operation could be sold in the future to a non-…
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
As opposition to a commercial project grows, town prepares draft RFP for land on Belmont Hill.
With opposition growing in the back end of Belmont Hill, the town is moving forward to sell a one-and-a-half acre parcel of land off Woodfall Road that an Atlanta firm has expressed interest in building an end-of-life facility. A draft of a request for proposal for the 229,000 square-foot town-owned parcel situated off Greenbrook Way and Woodfall abutting Belmont Country Club was presented to the Board of Selectmen at its Monday night, Aug. 6, meeting. According to the document, bids will be accepted until Wednesday, Oct. 3, for the site after the Board of Selectmen approves a final version of the draft. View the draft RFP on this website. The draft RFP – created by the Planning Department's Jay Szklut – will be discussed at the board's …
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Now other development teams are interested in land adjacent to Belmont Country Club.
An Atlanta-based national developer of medical facilities has its eye on a one-and-a-half acre of town-owned land abutting the Belmont Country Club to build a single story hospice building off Woodfall Road, according to the town's Office of Community Development. But the Georgia firm isn't the only development team interested in the land and it appears it will need to outbid others for the right to build its design. Coming before the Board of Selectmen on Monday, June 18, Jay Szklut, the town's planning and economic development manager, said Integra Medicial Properties has approached the town with an interest in purchasing a small parcel of town land off Greenbrook Way and Woodfall Road to develop a single-story, residential-styled …
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John Bowe
5:37 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013
I'd bet it's partly because developers are tired of dealing with Belmont. Everything gets re-visited and dragged out, nothing gets done smoothly. The BOS caved to Biff, Muffy, and Tagg on the hospice, and the developers can't trust that the same kind won't keep happening. more ›