Four New Members Appointed to PCID Board

Last month, four new members joined the board of the Perimeter Community Improvement District.

The four join six other continuing members on the board.

The DeKalb County Board of Commissioners approved the appointments of of two new members to the board – Cody Partin, the senior director of real estate for Cox Enterprises and Dennis Kemp, general manager of Perimeter Mall, owned by General Growth Properties, according to a PCID press release.

The Dunwoody City Council approved the board appointment of John Lundeen, president and managing partner of Coro Realty Advisors, LLC.

The Central (DeKalb) PCID Board approved the board appointment of General Manager Duane Sherman of the Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter at Ravinia Hotel.

The Perimeter Community Improvement Districts (PCIDs), served by both the Central (DeKalb) and Fulton Perimeter CIDs Boards of Directors. The CIDs are self-taxing districts that use additional commercial property taxes to assist local, state and federal partners in accelerating transportation and infrastructure improvement projects. PCID Board members are required by law to own or represent the owner of commercial property within the defined geographic district.

About the new board members:

Partin is a graduate of Harvard Law School. He recently handled the consolidation of AutoTrader.com’s workforce from five facilities throughout Atlanta into one location in the Perimeter district. He was also instrumental in the groundbreaking of 600,000-square-feet in new facilities for Cox Communications’ Technology Department in the Perimeter district as well as the purchase of 9000 Central Park, according to the PCID press release.

Since 2005, Kemp has managed the regional 1.6 million-square-foot Perimeter Mall, which attracts an estimated 18 million visitors a year, the release said. He is a Certified Shopping Center Manager with the International Council of Shopping Centers and led the mall to its “A” rating by the Council. The second largest mall in Georgia with four retail anchors, 200 specialty shops and services six signature restaurants, Perimeter Mall is a major economic engine in Perimeter.

Lundeen co-founded Coro, a real estate advisory and development company that oversees a portfolio of commercial and residential developments and land investments. Since its founding in 1997, Coro has managed the Georgetown Shopping Center in Dunwoody; the adjacent Chamblee Dunwoody Office Pavilion and Perimeter Station shopping center. The company also arranged the acquisition of Park Place shopping center in 2009 and has managed that property since then.

With his appointment as general manager of the Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter at Ravinia in the spring of 2011, Sherman rejoins Remington Hospitality to guide the 495-room property, which has 32,000 square feet of meeting space in the Ravinia Corporate Park. In January 2011, the Crowne Plaza’s LaGrotta restaurant was rated the best hotel restaurant in Atlanta by the Zagat survey, commissioned by USA Today.

A graduate of the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell Univerity, Sherman is a 28-year industry veteran. He was most recently an area general manager for Windsor Capital Group for more than 10 years, supervising multiple hotels in Las Vegas and then in the Metro Atlanta area.