About two dozen people spoke in favor of continuing the project. The crowd was so large it filled two overflow rooms where the meeting was shown on a screen.
The suspect in the killing, identified as Christopher Ates, 39, was taken into custody by Houston County Sheriff’s Office deputies, officials there said Wednesday.
Crescent Communities is the latest developer to purchase an Atlanta area office building with plans to tear it down and build something more desirable.
When hit, Pradeep Kumar Sood was in a crosswalk where today there is none, the faded stripes having been removed. His family has lobbied for the city of Atlanta to restore it.