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Consultant urges Brookhaven to partner with DeKalb County to advance Buford Highway redevelopment
Summary
KB Advisory Group presented a redevelopment study recommending that Brookhaven pursue county-led tax allocation district (TAD) partnership rather than a city-led TAD due to Brookhaven’s low millage, SSD structure and the need for county and school participation; council raised concerns about gentrification and protecting legacy businesses.
Jeff Koski, president of KB Advisory Group, presented the firm’s 2025 redevelopment study for the Buford Highway corridor and summarized the tools the city could use — with a focus on tax allocation districts (TADs).
Koski told the council that TADs can be a catalytic tool because they capture growth in property-tax revenue within a defined boundary and recycle the increment into the district for infrastructure or public-private projects. “When you set up a TAD as a city, you lock in the base value… it’s really about the growth in property taxes,” Koski said,…
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