Atlanta, GA
UPS says $10M tax break needed to retain nearly 1,700 jobs near Atlanta
DeKalb authority grants world’s largest parcel deliverer tax savings in effort to stave off job cuts.
UPS driver Marty Thompson delivers a package in Cumming. DeKalb has granted the company a tax break to try to keep its Pleasantdale Road facility open. (AP 2014)
As UPS closes dozens of buildings and cuts tens of thousands of jobs across its vast network, officials in one metro Atlanta county said they needed to take action to prevent a local facility from suffering a similar fate.
The Decide DeKalb development authority Thursday approved a $10.1 million property tax break that UPS said would spare a more than 40-year-old facility near Doraville from the chopping block. The shipping center at 3930 Pleasantdale Road currently employs more than 2,000 full- and part-time workers, and UPS said the tax break will help retain most of those positions.
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Zachary Hansen, a Georgia native, covers economic development and commercial real estate for the AJC. He’s been with the newspaper since 2018 and enjoys diving into complex stories that affect people’s lives.
A program that teaches young Atlantans how to ride bikes suffered a major loss this week, after thieves emptied a storage trailer, making off with 26 bikes and 24 helmets.
The “Shifting Gears” program helps young cyclists learn how to navigate city streets on two wheels from an early age — particularly in underserved communities that suffer from high rates of traffic injuries and fatalities.
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An Atlanta nonprofit is asking the public for help after it was the victim of a brazen theft earlier this week.
Propel ATL said that thieves cleared out an entire trailer of bicycles meant for underprivileged kids sometime on Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning.
Jeremiah Jones, the nonprofit’s advocacy manager, said that someone broke into the trailer and took 26 bikes and 24 helmets.
The equipment was part of a program that gives bikes to children from low-income schools and teaches them how to ride.
“My heart sank when I got the call that all the bikes were gone. I said, ‘Surely not all of them.’ And all of them are gone,” Jones said. “This class is solely for kids, and this crime is affecting them.”
Atlanta police are reviewing security footage from the area. Jones said you could see people taking the bikes out of the trailer, carrying them down a hill, and bringing them into a nearby parking lot.
The nonprofit is now trying to raise more than $10,000 to replace the bikes.
Propel ATL is also asking who may have information about the theft to contact them at programs@letspropelatl.org.
A man was arrested at a concert last week after he shoved two kids off their bicycles, causing one of them to fall into a fountain, Sandy Springs police said. FOX 5 Atlanta’s Brittany Edney reporting.
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