2/4: New hotel construction starts; Inspired by Newnan

GwinnettForum  | Number 19.84 |  Feb. 4, 2020

TWO GWINNETT ORGANIZATIONS will take part in two patriotic events this week. The Philadelphia Winn chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Button Gwinnett chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution will be at two events. They include the Heroes of the Hornet’s Nest Remembrance Day on February 7 at 10 a.m. at the Elijah Clarke State Park, east of Lincolnton, and the 241st anniversary of the Battle of Kettle Creek at 6 p.m. February 7th through Sunday, February 9 at noon, in Washington, Ga. 

IN THIS EDITION

TODAY’S FOCUS: Construction Begins for Hotel Connecting to Infinite Energy Center
ANOTHER VIEW: Newnan, Georgia Inspires Thought: Let’s Not Allow Dividers To Win
SPOTLIGHT: United Community Bank
FEEDBACK: Feels the President Owes IRS Imputed Interest of $436,000 over Ukraine
UPCOMING: Snellville Approves 18 Acre Grove at Towne Center Project
NOTABLE: Damon Berryhill Returns as Striper’s Manager for Fourth Season
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Charles Kuralt Praised Georgia Novelist Raymond Andrews
MYSTERY PHOTO: Modern Building and Sculpture Asks If You Recognize Them
CALENDAR: One Man Photo Show by Frank Sharp at Tucker Library through February

TODAY’S FOCUS

Building starts for hotel connecting to Infinite Energy Center

By Peyton Burgess

DULUTH, Ga.  | Concord Hospitality Enterprises, an award-winning hotel development and management company, has begun construction of an estimated $110 million, four-star Westin Atlanta Gwinnett Hotel. Concord Hospitality associates, representatives from Explore GwinnettGwinnett County Government and Infinite Energy Center, along with other local dignitaries, gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony at the hotel site, located on the Infinite Energy Center campus.

Attendees had the opportunity to hear updates on the property and plans for the hotel, which will provide guests with easy access to the convention center and events at the Infinite Energy Center from local representatives and speakers, including: Richard Tucker, chairman, Gwinnett Convention and Visitors Bureau Board of Directors; Jace Brooks, District 1 Commissioner;  and Kevin McAtee, senior vice president of Marketing and Sales for Concord Hospitality.

Located on the campus of the Infinite Energy Center, the 11-story, 348-room Westin Atlanta Gwinnett Hotel will feature nearly 34,500 square feet of ballroom, meeting and pre-function space, three restaurants, a lobby and rooftop bar, a coffee shop, an indoor pool, a fitness center and an outdoor fire pit, among other amenities.

Of note, plans for the rooftop bar include three separate serving locations, making it an ideal venue to accommodate hundreds of guests for private events or large receptions. The property will also offer two hospitality suites with outdoor terraces, one presidential suite with a private terrace, four executive suites and six standard suites. 

The Westin Atlanta Gwinnett Hotel will help service events at the newly expanded convention center. An exterior terrace will provide access to the convention center, while a bar terrace will connect to the Infinite Energy Center common areas. Guests can also experience VIP access to the Infinite Energy Center for events. 

Mark Laport, president and CEO of Concord Hospitality, says: “As Concord’s sixth property in the Atlanta area, we are extremely proud to be working alongside Gwinnett County officials and tourism representatives to bring the new Westin Atlanta Gwinnett Hotel to Gwinnett. It is through collaborations with partners like these that we are able to continue expanding our footprint in the Atlanta market. We look forward to welcoming guests to Gwinnett County and allowing them to explore and experience all the area has to offer in the coming years.”

Concord Hospitality operates other properties in the Atlanta area. They include: 

  • Canopy by Hilton Atlanta Midtown;
  • Doubletree Atlanta Perimeter Dunwoody;
  • Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta – Marietta;
  • Hilton Garden Inn North/Johns Creek; and
  • Hilton Garden Inn Northpoint.

The Westin Atlanta Gwinnett Hotel is projected to open in the first quarter of 2022.

ANOTHER VIEW

Newnan, Ga., inspires thought: Let’s not allow dividers to win

(Editor’s Note: Enjoy a viewpoint from the recent Charleston (S.C.) Currents, focusing on a Georgia subject.—eeb)

By Andy Brack
Editor and publisher, Charleston Currents   

FEB. 4, 2020  | U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said something a couple of weeks back that’s been circling through my brain: “Look, I have this firm belief that if America hasn’t broken your heart, you don’t love her enough.”

My heart is breaking as our nation is being torn apart in ways never imagined by founding fathers and leaders of the country for 200 years.

My heart is breaking as too many Americans find it acceptable for a president to lie routinely, to threaten, to intimidate like a schoolyard bully. 

My heart breaks as too many of America’s political leaders lack the courage to hold a president accountable for unconscionable, immoral behavior. 

My heart breaks as so many continue to get left behind as the haves have more.

My heart breaks as fundamental American precepts of liberty, truth, justice and the common good are trampled upon with reckless abandon.

My heart breaks when today’s headlines, rallies and tweets often recall simmering hate, vitriol, fear, racism and hopelessness that marked the American South for generations.

If you read the memoir Just Mercy or watch the new movie with the same title, it’s not difficult to draw parallels between declining societal conditions now and what existed just three decades ago when Alabama attorney Bryan Stevenson started trying to free people on death row thought to have been illegally convicted. 

Stevenson, who leads the Equal Justice Institute, has concluded through the years that the poverty that so many Southerners find themselves unable to escape has an opposite.  But it’s not building wealth. Poverty’s opposite, he says, is justice.

“We’ve all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor,” he said in a December 2015 interview.  “I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice. We have too many insiders who become hopeless about what they can do.”

It wasn’t too long ago that a relatively unknown U.S. senator from Illinois became president on a campaign fueled by hope, iconically depicted by Charleston-born artist Shepard Fairey.  So if what’s going on across the country now is loss of hope, a loss of justice and truth and the American way, what can we do to recapture hope?

Perhaps we can take a page from a community photography project from Newnan, Ga., a town 40 miles southwest of Atlanta that has become far more diverse in the last two decades.  Two years ago, a rally by white nationalists fizzled when organizers apparently didn’t realize the community had changed, according to a must-read Jan. 19 story in The New York Times.  A year later, Newnan installed 17 banner-sized portraits of residents, from a jewel-wearing white doyenne and Baptist preacher to people of color and a pair of Muslim sisters.

To say that the exhibit sparked conversation appears to be an understatement.  It forced Newnan to look at itself — something that every town in South Carolina (and Georgia –eeb) should strive to do.  The portraits in Newnan by photographer Mary Beth Meehan will come down in June, but continue to inspire, as related by a Presbyterian pastor: “The truth is, these conversations are hard and uncomfortable and awkward, but we need to lean into it.  We need to talk about who lives in our community and if they are different, why does that make us uncomfortable?”

Amen.  In times when armchair computer warriors spew venom online to divide America, we must invest in the hard work to talk more, not less.  We need to watch and talk about movies like “Just Mercy” and engage in hundreds of conversations that highlight our common American values, not our differences.

Let’s not let the dividers win.  Let’s rebuild hope in America so we can move forward.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

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 FEEDBACK

Feels president owes IRS interest of $436,000 over Ukraine

Editor, the Forum: 

It seems obvious that the Senate will vote not to remove President Trump from office for delaying payment of congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine.  The aid amounted to $391 million and the delay lasted 55 days.  So, President Trump had control over $391 million for 55 days and used its holdup in payment to try to obtain a personal political favor from Ukraine’s president. Such control of money likely constitutes an effective interest-free loan of $39 million from the U.S. Treasury to President Trump for 55 days. 

The Internal Revenue Code requires recognition of imputed interest income for income tax purposes for certain below-market rate loans.  Going through the calculations using what is known as the Applicable Federal Rate (about two percent annually) for such loans, the President would have to recognize imputed interest income of $1,178,000.  That amount of income taxed in the highest federal tax bracket (37 percent) would generate federal income tax of $436,000.

Therefore, I suggest that whichever way the Senate votes regarding removal of the president from office, that the IRS send him a bill for $436,000. 

— Michael L. Wood, Peachtree Corners

Now, lots of letters on various topics from GwinnettForum

Editor, the Forum: 

While I respect his opinion I strongly disagree with Jack Bernard’s column(“Doesn’t see right wing thinkers changing minds soon.”) As a conservative my beef with President Obama was not that he was black; or his favoritism toward Muslim countries; or the birther issue. My concerns were first, that he demonstrated a belief that government can solve the ills of society and second, that his foreign policy was one largely based on appeasing other nations.

As a conservative with a libertarian bent I want to see government (especially Federal) shrunk, not grown. The recent elimination of excessive rules and regulations undertaken by our current wouldn’t have happened under President Obama.  

Clearly our nation has had its share of transgressions. There are no countries in the world without a checkered past. Yet we remain the greatest nation in the world and do more good than all other nations. 

Let’s celebrate that. It does NOT mean we have to be the one that covers the bill for national defense around the world, or pays for more than our fair share of the UN, or caves to Iran in a terrible nuclear treaty. Whereas the current administration is negotiating overdue trade deals with China, normalizing relations with South Korea and taking on Palestine…all from a position of strength, not weakness. 

While I am not a fan of President Trump personally I cannot be more pleased that he is our President and look forward to four more years.

— Greg Smith, Lawrenceville

PS: RIP Steve Rausch. Steve was not a close friend but someone who I respected and admired. Loved his exchanges with others on the Forum.—GS

Editor, the Forum:

Congratulations on yet another great edition of the GwinnettForum. I increasingly enjoy the local news, information, history, views, and perspectives.  Bryan Gilbert’s appeal for royal adoption was hilarious, and Mr. Freemen’s Task Force Patriot was humbling.  I don’t agree with Jack, but I appreciate his effort. Keep up the good work. 

— Joe Briggs, Suwanee

Editor, the Forum:

John Titus needs to know you have a reader, a native of the Lowcountry, who has really enjoyed his research on the Pinckneys. I grew up thinking that you should genuflect every time that you heard that name. Keep a little of my praise for yourself as we love the Forum as well as Andy’s two publications. The Bracks have supplied us with information for four decades. Regards and cheers!

— Ross W. Lenhart, Pawleys Island, S.C.

Editor, the Forum: 

Thanks for posting the review of Rachel Maddow’s book Blowout.  I haven’t met Ms. Maddow, though from what I know of her, I expect we approach life differently.  That aside, friends and family in Oklahoma and Texas report sinkholes in various parts of the state, over the last few years.  They believe, for the most part, that such sinkholes are attributable to fracking. Thanks for keeping the GwinnettForum in fine shape.

— Randy Brunson, Duluth

Editor, the Forum: 

Every time someone says they didn’t like Obama, and are white, a liberal comes to the conclusion that that person is obviously a racist. I do not care one iota about a person’s color or where their ancestors came from. It is ridiculous to assume all conservatives are racist, and insulting. 

The left is just as guilty as the right for getting us in this situation. How can you expect to have a dialogue with a person of different views when you start with Insults, e.g. “Divider-in-Chief,’ “right-wing newsletters,’ “TNN (Trump News Network, otherwise known as Fox).” Seems the left is more racist as they continuously brag about how they are not racist and go out of their way to prove it. Jack Benard I think you protest too much. 

— Tim Sullivan, Buford

Editor, the Forum:

The people/citizens of the USA will be able to read Bolton’s materials…but the Senate Majority wants to remain ignorant of the same information. What are these folks smoking? 

— Ashley Herndon, Oceanside, Calif.

Dear Ashley: Come now, many don’t smoke. It’s the DC atmosphere!—eeb

Lisinopril was problem for one, but worked for another

Editor, the Forum: 

I read with interest your experience with Lisinopril, as I have had a similar experience. After being on this drug for several weeks, the cough nearly took over my life. It took several doctor visits and a chest x-ray to discover it was my new medication. It also has taken a month off of it to have some relief! Thanks for writing about this!

            — Cheryl Williams, Blackshear

Editor, the Forum: 

Interestingly, I switched my blood pressure medicines from Fosinopril (a Lisinopril cousin, on which I have been since the early 90s) at the suggestion of my ear-nose-throat doctor and my nagging cough has disappeared. 

Mike Tennant, Johns Creek

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UPCOMING

Snellville approves 18-acre Grove at Towne Center project

The City of Snellville has approved The Grove at Towne Center, a development that has been a part of the city’s vision for more than 10 years. Together, with partners, CASTO and MidCity, The Grove at Towne Center should begin construction this summer for an opening late 2021 or early 2022.

With this rezoning, the 18-acre project site takes the next step toward breaking ground this summer.

In addition to shopping, dining, recreation, and business space, The Grove will also offer residential opportunities, a new Gwinnett County Library, a specialty Market/Event Building and significant common areas . The apartments in The Grove will feature upscale living to enjoy luxury of an urban lifestyle. Offering walking access to retail, dining, the greenway system, these apartments combine modern convenience with a quiet, peaceful setting.

County seeks feedback on future of Gwinnett parks

Gwinnett County Government is seeking feedback from residents on the future of parks in Gwinnett. The Parks and Recreation Division is launching a comprehensive parks and recreation master plan to understand how the county is changing and to establish a long-range vision for advancing the County’s resources over the next 10 years.

To share their feedback, residents are invited to attend one of several meetings to learn more about the plan and share their ideas.

Meetings are scheduled for:  

  • Feb. 11, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at OneStop Centerville, 3025 Bethany Church Road, Snellville. Call (678) 277-0228 for more information.
  • Feb. 13, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Dacula Park Activity Building, 2735 Auburn Avenue, Dacula. Call (678) 277-0850 for more information.
  • Feb. 18, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at George Pierce Park Community Recreation Center, 55 Buford Highway, Suwanee. Call (678) 277-0910 for more information.
  • Feb. 20, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Bogan Park Community Recreation Center, 2723 North Bogan Road, Buford. Call (678) 277-0850 for more information.
  • Feb. 25, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Shorty Howell Park Activity Building, 2750 Pleasant Hill Road, Duluth. Call (678) 277-0900 for more information.

Individuals not able to attend can take an online survey at PublicInput.com/GwinnettParks or visit GwinnettParks.com for more information. 

NOTABLE

Berryhill returns as Striper’s manager for fourth season

Berryhill

Atlanta Braves announced today the Gwinnett Stripers’ coaching staff for the 2020 season. Manager Damon Berryhill, the 2019 International League Manager of the Year, returns for his fourth season with Gwinnett. Pitching coach Mike Maroth and strength and conditioning Coach Paul Howey each return for their second seasons with the Stripers, while hitting Coach Carlos Mendez, Coach Alfredo Amézaga, and certified Athletic Trainer T.J. Saunders all join Gwinnett after spending 2019 with Double-A Mississippi. Berryhill, 56, has guided Gwinnett to a 221-199 (.526) record over three seasons since being named on December 12, 2016. Last season, Berryhill’s 2019 club posted the best winning percentage in Gwinnett history (.576) while capturing the team’s second IL South Division title and third playoff berth. The Gwinnett Stripers open the 2020 season on the road, taking on the Norfolk Tides on April 9. The 2020 home opener at Coolray Field is set for Thursday, April 16 at 7:05 p.m. vs. Norfolk. For more information, visit GoStripers.com.

Bowen gets another five years on state transportation board

Bowen

Rudy Bowen of Suwanee, in the Seventh Congressional District, has been re-elected to five-year board term to the State Transportation Board by a caucus of state representatives and senators from the district. The new terms begin April 15, 2020. Board Vice Chair Rudy Bowen has represented Forsyth and Gwinnett counties in Georgia’s Congressional District 7 since 2007. He is vice chairman of the P3 Committee and serves on the administrative, finance and intermodal committees. He has previously served as board chairman.

Sugar Hill gets Visionary City Award from Georgia Trend

The City of Sugar Hill has received the inaugural Visionary City Award presented by Georgia Trend magazine and the Georgia Municipal Association. Representing the large city category, Sugar Hill has created change through effective civic engagement and collaboration.  From left are Georgia Trend Editor Ben Young, Youth Council Mayor Khushi Mehta, Mayor Steve Edwards, Council Members Brandon Hembree and Taylor Anderson, Downtown Coordinator Nadia Merritt and GMA President Mayor Phil Best.

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GEORGIA TIDBIT

Kuralt praised Georgia novelist Raymond Andrews

Raymond Andrews was a widely acclaimed novelist and chronicler of the African American experience in north central Georgia. His first novel, Appalachee Red, won the James Baldwin Prize for fiction in 1979. In 2009 he was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.

Andrews

The fourth of ten children of sharecropping parents, Andrews was born and reared near Madison. At 15 he left home for Atlanta, where he worked during the day and attended night classes at Booker T. Washington High School. After graduating from high school he served four years in the U.S. Air Force, including a tour of duty in Korea. On returning he attended Michigan State University and then moved to New York City, where he lived from 1958 until 1984. While there he married, and worked as an airline agent, air courier, and proofreader, among other jobs. His marriage ended in divorce in 1980.

Andrews’s first national publication was a description in Sports Illustrated of the first time the game of football was played in the rural community of Plainview, where he grew up. In the late 1970s Dial Press began publishing his Muskhogean trilogy, which tells of black life in the Deep South from the end of World War I (1917-18) to the beginning of the 1960s, from the days of mules and white men with bullwhips to the moment the civil rights tide began to change the Georgia Piedmont. The trilogy includes three novels: Appalachee Red (1978), Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee (1980), and Baby Sweet’s (1983).   

After moving to a home near Athens in 1984, Andrews published a memoir, The Last Radio Baby (1990), which described his childhood years when his family lived on the same property with their black grandmother and white grandfather. Noted newsman and author Charles Kuralt called this book “one of the truest and best pieces of writing I’ve ever come across.”

Andrews’s last book, Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire (1991), consists of two novellas. It introduces two powerful African American women who are as unlike as night and day but are similarly determined to have their way. His final manuscript, Once upon a Time in Atlanta, was published in a single issue of the Chattahoochee Review in 1998. All of Andrews’s books were illustrated by his brother, the nationally known artist Benny Andrews.

An expansive, engaging man who made friends effortlessly, Andrews was known for his encyclopedic knowledge of old movies and sports, especially football and baseball, from the 1940s through the 1970s. His modesty and sense of humor, along with a real warmth, made him one of the most widely loved southern writers of his era. He took his art very seriously and laboriously printed his work on yellow legal pads in the mornings, then rewrote and typed the results in the afternoon. He famously enjoyed literary parties and traveled widely to read from his works.

In 1989 the Robert W. Woodruff Library of Emory University in Atlanta purchased Andrews’s papers. The Raymond Andrews papers are available for research and include correspondence, photographs, clippings, and drafts and manuscripts of his novels. Andrews died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Athens on November 25, 1991.

 MYSTERY PHOTO

Modern building and sculpture ask if you recognize them

Here’s a modern building, with a defined structure gracing its entrance. Recognize it?  If so, send your answer to today’s Mystery Photo to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.

The most recent Mystery Photo was solved immediately by dependable George Graf of Palmyra, Va.

He wrote: “It is Luxembourg City.  I recognized it immediately, but not fondly. My wife and I spent a couple days there back in the early 90s.  They have their own special language that no one but them understands.  

“It was foggy and snowy on our visit, and on the way out of town a local ran a stop sign and banged up our brand new Volvo.  He started ranting and raving and wanted money on the spot from us since he saw our USAREUR tags.  Fortunately, another local stopped to help and showed us the stop sign that the perpetrator went through and was witnessed by the perpetrator.  Then the two locals got into a heated discussion in their language, and the good Samaritan told me to call the police, and with that the violator jumped in his car and drove off.  I was left with a few dents and scratches, but was glad to drive out of there and get back home to Heidelberg.” 

Others recognizing the photograph were Lee Klaer, Duluth, and Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill.  Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. furnished more detail: “The Fortress of Luxembourg in Luxembourg City,””’ is one of the four official capitals of the European Union (together with Brussels, Frankfurt, and Strasbourg) and is the seat of the European Court of Justice, the highest judicial authority in the EU. 

“The mystery photo was taken from the Adolphe Bridge, facing east along the Petrusse Valley, and features the ruins of the medieval fort with high stone walls and a scenic public park. The Monument of Remembrance, a granite obelisk and war memorial nicknamed “Golden Lady” for its gilded statue of a woman on top, can be seen atop the main battery walls of the fortification, with the Notre-Dame Cathedral in the background and the lush ‘Garden Luxembourg’ in the foreground.

“The origins of the Fortress of Luxembourg date back to 1644 when the Spaniards built and continuously reinforced the medieval fortifications under the supervision of the Swiss fortress builder Isaac von Treybach. The fortifications were built gradually over nine centuries, with construction starting soon after the city’s foundation in the tenth century and continued until 1867. During its history, the fortress was of great strategic importance for the control of the Left Bank of the Rhine, the Low Countries, and the border area between France and Germany. The fairgrounds visible in the photo are part of the annual Christmas Market celebrations that the city of Luxembourg puts on for an entire month each year, including erecting the Ferris wheel at the Place de la Constitution next to the Monument of Remembrance obelisk.”

CALENDAR

One-man photo show at Tucker Library through February

One-Man Show of Photography by GwinnettForum Roving Photographer Frank Sharp will be through February 29 at the Tucker Library, 5234 Lavista Rd, Tucker. Hours are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Thursday, Friday, and  Saturday 10 a.m. t 5 p.m. Sunday the library is closed. Note: cell phones are not allowed in the library.

Father-Daughter Dances in Buford will be February 7 and 8 at the Phillip Beard Ballroom, Buford Community Center,2200 Buford Highway, sponsored by the North Gwinnett Kiwanis Club. Admission is $60 per couple. For more information, visit Tickets: https://www.bigtickets.com/events/ngkc/father-daughter-valentine-dance-2020/.

Household Hazardous Waste event set for February 29. Leap into spring and get rid of your pesticides, cleaners, and other toxic products by taking them to the Household Hazardous Waste disposal event  from 8 a.m. until noon at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds. For information on quantities and items accepted, visit the Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful Household Hazardous Waste page. Register to volunteer to help unload vehicles at VolunteerGwinnett.net.

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