Jiffy Grocery And Liberty Tax Property Deal Falls Through

Second deal in the works for foreclosed property.

A deal to sell the now-closed Jiffy Grocery and Liberty Tax Service in Ormewood Park has fallen through. Atlanta-based Citizens Trust Bank, which owns the property at 731 Moreland Ave. said it is in negotiations with another interested party that wants the site. "It was under contract, but for now that contract has been terminated," Chris T. Jones, a CTB vice president told East Atlanta Patch Monday. "We are negotiating with another buyer on the property." Jones said he does not know what this new interested party intends for the site, which sits between Ormewood and Hall avenues. But in order for the deal to go through, it has to conform with local zoning ordinances. "We want it to be something that can be done, otherwise we cant …

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Jiffy Grocery Store Closing

Store owner gets foreclosure letter from bank, which is seizing property.

Jiffy Grocery, the grungy, dilapidated Ormewood Park bodega that had its share of detractors and fans over the years, is closing. The store's owner, Harpreet S. Makkar, told East Atlanta Patch on Wednesday he received a letter from the bank telling him it is foreclosing on the property at 731 Moreland Ave. It's unclear what will happen with the site in the near-term. Jiffy Grocery's closure announcement comes just days after another longstanding southeast Atlanta business — Traders Neighborhood Store in East Atlanta Village — announced its closure, too. Makkar, doesn't own the Jiffy Grocery building; Gobind L. Madan, an accountant who runs and owns the Liberty Tax Service directly behind the Jiffy Grocery on Ormewood Avenue, owns it. But …

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Daily PatchCast: March Attempted On Wells Fargo, Quik Trip Shot Down, Suspect Sought In Buckhead

The day's top headlines for Thursday, November 3, 2011

Protestors Blocked On March To Atlantic Station. Wal-Mart Developers Meet With Medlock, Decatur Residents. City Zoning Board Denies QuikTrip Site Appeal. Grady Sophomore Named Among Georgia's 20 Under 20. APD Seeks Sexual Offender.

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Hearing For Proposed QuikTrip Site In Ormewood Park Rescheduled

New date tentatively set for Nov. 3

An appeals hearing connected to the controversial Ormewood Park property that QuikTrip Corp. wants to build on is being rescheduled. Gobind L. Madan, who owns 731 Moreland Ave. at the intersection of Ormewood Avenue, planned to appeal the city's denial of his request to split the land into two separate commercial properties. The hearing before the Atlanta Zoning Review Board, set for Sept. 1 is tentatively rescheduled for Nov. 3. It's not immediately clear why the issue was rescheduled. Madan, who owns the Jiffy Grocery store at 731 Moreland and the Liberty Tax Service business that sits behind it, filed the appeal because the city's denial threatens to derail QuikTrip Corp.'s plans to build a 5,700-square-foot convenience store and gas …

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Land Use Committee Says 'No' To QT Appeal

Landowner appealed city's denial that would have allowed gas station in Ormewood Park

Controversial development projects usually have a stop-go, stop-go, Waltz-like quality to them as both sides try to find a solution acceptable to each party. But the proposed project in Ormewood Park that would bring a QuikTrip filling station and convenience store to the intersection of Moreland and Ormewood avenues has been more like stop-stop lately. On Tuesday, the land use committee that makes recommendations regarding projects in several southeast Atlanta neighborhoods, voted to oppose the Ormewood Park landowner's appeal of an earlier city ruling that blocks the project. The no vote by the land use and zoning committee of Neighborhood Planning Unit-W, which represents East Atlanta Village and Ormewood Park, among other neighborhoods…

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Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School Gets $499,926.01 For Safe Routes Initiative

Grant to promote student biking and walking to school but conflicts with planned QuikTrip on a portion of the route

Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School, which operates the Atlanta Charter Middle School in Ormewood Park and Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School in Grant Park, received a grant for $499,926.01 from the federal Safe Routes To Schools. The program is designed to reduce congestion, improve safety and promote the health benefits of kids either walking or biking to school. The grant, given to the City Public Works Department through the Georgia Department of Transportation, will be used to: But that part of that route designated as safe for kids to use — Ormewood Avenue — is at the center of a controversial plan to build a QuikTrip gas station and convenience store. The proposed project, which would bring the QT to the intersection of Moreland …

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Government Oversights And QuickTrip Cut-through Traffic Could Ruin Intown Neighborhoods

The QuikTrip Situation

by Stephen Norman and Andy Schneggenburger “Build our communities, don’t break them” is the message that residents of Ormewood Park and surrounding neighborhoods have delivered to QuikTrip. QuikTrip gas stations/service centers are popular, and there are relatively few within Atlanta’s city limits. Our goal with the “No QT Here” effort on Facebook and throughout our neighborhoods has always been to encourage QuikTrip to find an alternate location on Moreland that will be better for neighbors and QuikTrip’s customer experience. QuikTrip’s plan to build at 731 Moreland Avenue, in the middle of a residential area of the South Moreland Corridor, presents many problems for residents on both sides of Moreland. The brand’s popularity and strategy…

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QuikTrip Plans To Take Its Time With Ormewood Park Site

Company remains interested in Moreland Avenue site for gas station, convenience store

City officials last week reversed an earlier decision to replat a parcel of land in Ormewood Park that would have paved the way for the construction of a controversial QuikTrip filling station and convenience store. But Tulsa, OK-based QuikTrip Corp., said Monday it remains interested in the parcel of land on the west side of Moreland Avenue between Ormewood Avenue and Hall Street. In a letter dated May 25, Charletta Wilson Jacks, director of the planning office, wrote the decision to split the commercial lot into two separate parcels had to be reversed because it violates a city regulation regarding street frontages. Property owner Gobind L. Madan has 30 days to appeal that decision. He could seek to replat the land into two parcels …

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Proposed QT Site Hits Snag With City Planners

City reverses decision to split property owner's site into two separate parcels

City planning officials have reversed a decision that could derail QuikTrip Corp.'s controversial plans to build 5,700-square-foot convenience store and gas station in Ormewood Park. In a letter dated May 25, Charletta Wilson Jacks, director of the planning office, wrote the decision to split the commercial lot on Moreland Avenue between Ormewood Avenue and Hall Street into two separate parcels violates a city regulation regarding street frontages. Gobind L. Madan, who assembled several lots on Moreland's west side between Ormewood Avenue and Hall Street over two decades, obtained city approval to split or replat the assembled parcels into two commercial properties. The first tract — 1.161 acres and fronting Moreland Avenue — would be the …

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Marcia Killingsworth

2:48 pm on Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Andy, I understand your point. But from my point of view, Jiffy and Liberty have been there for years. I'd rather have them remain for the time being than develop that corner just to get rid of them. We have a very specific Land Use Plan that was developed over the course of months by the neighborhoods along the south Moreland corridor, and approved by the city. A massive (5800+ square feet) 24-…   more ›