I wrote about him the night they fired the Tubman Museum manager, Harold Young. This was last June 16th. I was surprised they fired their amphitheater manager before 2025’s Juneteenth show. Today, Adediran isn’t city manager because of the original opposition.
Eight months later it’s come out Stockbridge’s former pick for city manager did the dangerous blight thing I keep harping on to the inhabitants of 470 apartments. “He then illegally ordered all residents to vacate the premises within 30 days,” the complaint says, referring to Adediran. “This was done so that the new owners could hire other co-conspirators to renovate the property without having to worry about code issues.” That’s from an AJC story by Reed Williams
Property owners were told they had to put $3 million into a city-controlled account and use the [College Park] city’s `preferred vendors to fix the alleged violations,’ according to the lawsuit.
Although this is in College Park. It’s the same scenario I said would play out here last May.
That scenario is still in motion by vote of the city as well as the County Commissioners. The Henry BOE declined participation in the Stockbridge Tax Allocation District thus far. In the county commission meeting they positively gush into the camera that there won’t be eminent domain involved. And they’re right, it won’t be eminent domain. It’s a false blight designation like IJ is suing over in Perth Amboy.
February 9th brings more outside interference to this neighborhood.
They had a meeting tonight. There’s a proposal to rename a road in Barber’s district that no one asked for and she wasn’t informed of. Alexander states Lee St. is named for General Robert E. Lee. And that it must be changed now because the STEM school is opening in a year. First of all, it’s not named General Robert E. Lee St. and you have no evidence that it’s named after a Confederate. Is Winslow where you live named after Carl Winslow? Did Zesto’s name their burger after Confederate General Chubbie Decker?
Get a grip, Elton. The word “plantation” is smack dab in the middle of Eagle’s Landing. And they mean plantation as in ye olde southern cotton picking chattel slaves.
This renaming proposal is just another attempt by Alexander to interject his desires outside his district onto the STEM school project. In the video you see the $300 million dollar potential downtown. But Elton can’t really figure a way in because it isn’t his district. Starting in 2024, Elton and Leon Stafford (formerly of AJC) tried to “preserve a part of the stranger things school.” on super short notice, without council approval in pure interference with a Henry BOE project. I put that idea to bed with a few e-mails.
Then quietly at the latest financial retreat, he tried to get the city to put in a 10′ sidewalk 100′ from a 10′ sidewalk where there’s already a sidewalk. On that retreat agenda, it just said, “between East Atlanta & Lee St.” That could be Highway 42. But it more than likely means my front yard. No one knew what he was talking about. We’ve since heard the PATH foundation is covering only one small trail. I’ve got a sidewalk already & so does Hwy. 42.
If you’re not naming a STEM school road after an engineer you are entirely missing the point of STEM, marketing & branding. Given the big picture, you’re always in my neighborhood making money with your sidewalk construction buddies. This has nothing at all to do with any martyrdom. And only to do with money, money, money.
Invoking the name Martin Luther King Jr. on a street where you’ll be taking homes from Black people doesn’t cover up any of the facts & it’s gross to attempt to do so. This city is gripped by countless racism, sexism and toxic workplace lawsuits. We can’t set aside trying to cover those up while sweeping the Tubman Museum & Amphitheater Manager’s bad faith under the rug. You’re getting sued 7 times over and suddenly Robert E. Lee does a surprise attack after lying in wait for 160 years. That’s very convenient & complete balderdash.
Where’s the pedestrian bridge, splash pad, parking deck, cultural arts center and 100 other projects? When? No one can tell you. But we can spend what we have to guess will be $100s of thousands of dollars renaming a short portion of road. At the same time you spend and lose 80% of $3,500,000 on amphitheater shows. Generally, what tf are we doing? Setting all your weird racial calculus aside. When will the city’s projects supporting the school, amphitheater & downtown connection be complete? If your answer is “we’re renaming the road first because of ultra-total-mega racisms” before any of these long overdue core projects are complete then your priorities are not in order.
You’ve blown the budget for 5 years. Renaming a road MLK Jr. to commemorate you partying on taxpayer money isn’t noble. It’s transparent bad faith cut from the whole cloth.
Happy Mardi Gras. Never rochambeaux with a Cajun 🎭
