A Tale of Two Towers: Atlanta & Charlottesville both dealing with Dewberry eyesores

Could city officials in the two cities work together to help solve this problem?

According to this Atlanta-Constitution Journal story, the city of Atlanta and Charlottesville appear to have the same John Dewberry problem.

Both cities have multi-story downtown buildings owned by Dewberry that have sat unfinished for years. Dewberry bought Atlanta’s Campanile office tower at Peachtree and 14th streets in 2010, and Charlottesville’s unfinished “Landmark Hotel” building in 2012, after CNET founder Halsey Minor abandoned the project. To put that in perspective, Savannah Sicurella, one of the ACJ reporters who wrote this story, was in third grade when Minor broke ground on the hotel.

I reached out to Atlanta and Charlottesville city officials in a group email recently, hoping they might communicate and brainstorm with each other about their shared problem.

“I am sorry this issue has connected our two cities,” Charlottesville Mayor Juandiego Wa…