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A Downtown Investment Authority assessment envisions a REV grant and other assistance.

Fuqua Development officials did not respond to multiple requests for information on the estimated $250 million project and neither did the building's property owner, Morris Communications. Duval County property records show an assessed value of $15.12 million on the site. Fuqua Development developed the 60,000-square-foot Brooklyn Station retail center across the avenue, anchored by The Fresh Market and multiple restaurants. The company also developed hundreds of multi-family units nearby, part of more than 1,000 apartments built a few blocks away as the JTA works on expanding the use of it...

Atlanta developer Jeff Fuqua plans to buy the site and transform it into a retail, office, restaurant and apartment project.

Owners of The Varsity have applied to tear down the iconic Athens restaurant, which one commissioner said has been "a long time coming." The current building at 1000 West Broad St. has stood since 1965, though The Varsity has been established in Athens since 1932, just four years after the original Atlanta location opened. Athens-Clarke Commissioner Melissa Link said a series of events over the past several years pointed to the eventual demolition of the restaurant, owned by the Gordy family. “This has been a project that's been a long time coming ... we've known the inevitability of the...

Primary Content Credit: The Varsity Whaddaya have? A mixed-use development all the way. The owners of landmark fast-food restaurant The Varsity recently filed for a permit to tear down the 1965 restaurant to make way for what is likely to be apartments and retail, perhaps a grocery store. It’s been obvious for years that The Varsity’s owners, the Gordy family, would take this step. The family started buying up properties around the restaurant in 2017 and requested a rezoning for the 6.7 acres they’d assembled in 2018. “This was inevitable,” said Commissioner Melissa Link, w...