Eagle owner Richard Ramey
The effort to protect the 122-year-old building that once housed the Atlanta Eagle stalled on Wednesday, delaying discussion of designating it as a historic landmark for at least two weeks.
The Atlanta Urban Design Commission pressed pause after the building’s owner asked for more time to review the city’s application for landmark status. The city – and Historic Atlanta – wants to designate two buildings – 306 Ponce de Leon Avenue, which housed the Eagle until it closed in November, and 300 Ponce de Leon, vacant since the 1990s – as landmarks to protect them from being demolished.
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms jump-started the process in mid-December. But Dennis Webb – an attorney for Shahzad Hashmi, the Gwinnett psychiatrist who owns both buildings – argued that they received two city reports about the landmark designation just a week before the meeting.