All over the TV news, and in the Atlanta Business Chronicle....it's official!   Mercedes Benz Will Relocate North American Headquarters to Atlanta The move will happen quickly....by THIS summer, although the company will locate into temporary space until a built-to-suit building can be completed in 2017. Reports say Mercedes Benz has narrowed their site to the Central Perimeter with 4 sites, and one in outlaying Alpharetta. The company will invest more than $100 million in the new office building.  Mercedes' decision to move from sleepy Montvale, N.J. to frenetic Atlanta was about attracting the talent needed to be "competitive for the next 50 years," MBUSA President and CEO Stephen Cannon told Atlanta Business Chronicle in an exclusive interview Tuesday afternoon. Atlanta's prime locat... 01/06/2015

NOTE: This email is in response specifically to an email sent out today by Robert Patrick,  Doraville City Council Member. If you are on this distribution, but DID NOT RECEIVE THE EMAIL I AM REFERENCING, please contact me directly, and I will forward it to you.  Robert, Robert, Robert.....   In my years of management, I've always been taught in an employee review to start off with something positive about the employee's performance BEFORE going into their negative performance issues. Sadly, in your case, I'll have to break that stride.    Before I point out the gross flaws in your Opportunity Zone thinking process, let me make a statement, FOR ALL CITIZENS OF DORAVILLE because I firmly believe that everyone of us believe, think, and feel this way....   I do not believe there is one sing... 03/03/2013