Located in a small building along Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, Coffey Automotive Group has had a front row seat to the evolution of Atlanta’s Grove Park neighborhood. When Jerry Coffey’s father began working for his family’s car dealership in 1959, Grove Park was a white community filled with residents who worked at the nearby railroad and quarry. As Coffey remembers it, that changed in 1960, after a Black family bought a house in the neighborhood. White residents moved out en masse into outlying suburban neighborhoods, and the businesses along Hollowell closed. The Coffeys stayed. In 2012, Jerry took over the dealership, where he had a front row seat in the next chapter of the neighborhood’s evolution: Microsoft Corp. building a 90-acre campus across the street and promising jobs and economic opportunities. “If they invested millions and built this gigantic campus, my property values would have skyrocketed through the roof,” Coffey said. “I mean, I’m living in Colorado and skiing every day.” That dream is now in question. Microsoft disclosed early this month it was pausing all planning work as part of changes in business priorities amid worsening economic conditions. That means its promise to dedicate 25% of the campus […]
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Invest The Invisible Impact
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Invest The Invisible Impact
