{"294791":{"#nid":"294791","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Prof. Green Leigh weighs in on industrial land debate","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn apartment project planned near Atlantic Station is reigniting a debate over whether Atlanta planners should preserve the city\u2019s dwindling industrial land.\u0026nbsp;From 2004 to 2009, Atlanta lost nearly 1,000 acres of industrial land (12 percent) that was redeveloped for other uses, according to a 2009 Georgia Tech report commissioned by the Atlanta Development Authority. At the time of the study, Atlanta had about 5,900 acres of industrial land, or about 7 percent of its total land. \u201cWe need to be careful and really strategic about the industrial land we do have,\u201d said professor Nancey Green Leigh, associate dean for research at\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Architecture. \u201cIt is job-producing land.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27714","created_gmt":"2014-05-04 14:19:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:05","author":"Kyle James","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"breakthrough cases","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/print-edition\/2014\/05\/02\/apartment-plan-restarts-industrial-rezoning-debate.html?page=all","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"6249","name":"Industrial"},{"id":"9772","name":"nancey green leigh"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}