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Family, Fairness, Skill Spur Growth for Newnan Firm
With average annual growth of 10-to-12 percent over the past few years and millions of dollars worth of contracts, the company has more than 200 employees and more than 200 pieces of equipment compared to 80 employees and 100 pieces of iron in 2011.
By Irwin Rapoport CEG CORRESPONDENT
In May 2006, Scott Stokes founded Southeastern Site Development Inc. (SESD), a heavy civil/infrastructure general contracting firm in Newnan, Ga. Today, his firm is recognized as one of the city of Atlanta’s premier road building, site development, excavation, utilities, structures, concrete flatwork and construction contractors working throughout Georgia. While the majority of the company’s operations occur within a 100-mi. radius of Atlanta, it also does work in south Florida, Alabama and South Carolina, and has an office in Columbus (near the Alabama State line) and an equipment yard in Savannah, which gives it access to the Florida market. With average annual growth of 10-to-12 percent over the past few years and millions of dollars worth of contracts, the company has more than 200 employees and more than 200 pieces of equipment (tractors, excavators, dozers, cranes, loaders and other iron pieces) compared to 80 employees and 100 pieces of iron in 2011. The current fleet is approximately 70 percent Komatsu and 28 percent Cat, with the remainder made up of Kobelco cranes and Link-Belt cranes and LBX excavators. The fleet contains a substantial number of articulated see SESD page 6
Atlanta BeltLine Trail Finally Gets Southern Buckhead Route, Building Start Unknown After years of planning, the Atlanta BeltLine’s Northeast Trail finally has a course set through southern Buckhead, where it will connect to MARTA’s Lindbergh Center Station, as well as the PATH400 and other trail systems in the city. But the expense and complexity of its path, involving bridges and a tunnel, means construction will take several more years, with an opening likely coming no sooner than 2026. “Good news is, they have an alignment. Bad news is, it will
take forever,” said Denise Starling, executive director of Livable Buckhead, the nonprofit supervising PATH400, as she described the conceptual route at a May 27 meeting of the Buckhead Community Improvement District. The BeltLine is a proposed system of multiuse trails and an accompanying light rail mass transit line that would encircle intown Atlanta, largely using old railroad corridors. The transit see BELTLINE page 4
Atlanta BeltLine Inc. graphic
A map of the selected route for the Northeast Trail in southern Buckhead.