Don Bender

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  southstarcdc.org/index/articles/20050328090047 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/11/2009    Last Visited: 9/11/2009  

  [img border="1" align="right" alt="Don Bender (left) of Neighborhood Commercial Redevelopment Inc. and Corby Hannah of Southstar Community Development Corp. stand at Glenwood and Flat Shoals avenues in East Atlanta, which they hope to improve. hspace="6" height="300" width="410"]files/AJC 032104 Bender and Hannah.jpg[/img] Leaders including Don Bender, a developer who pioneered Little Five Points almost 25 years ago, hope to re-create a bit of the magic that made the early Little Five Points such a vibrant alternative.
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  "The main idea," says Bender, who started buying buildings in East Atlanta in 1985, "is to enhance the village's attractiveness as a commercial area for pedestrians. It's not a matter of turning something hostile into something that's attractive, because it is attractive. It's a matter of enhancing it. Restaurant server Adam Murphy, 24, agrees with Bender.
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  When the cafe decided to have a mural painted on an exterior wall, a work of aboriginal Australian art endorsed by Bender, the building's owner, the cafe invited local children to help.

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  Published on: 6/13/2007    Last Visited: 2/11/2008  

  Also , Don Bender is working with Natalyn, Kwanza, and Anne on setting up a 1st anniversary meeting with the full Moreland Task Force some time after our meeting with the Fast Forward Team (or sooner as needed).

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  Published on: 5/9/2005    Last Visited: 3/29/2007  

  Don Bender, owner of commercial property to the west of the Baptist Church, representing himself and other neighbors, spoke about the difficulties neighbors have had with the conduct of persons at the church and 1250 property.He indicated that he did not feel that the expansion of a deck was a big deal.He indicated that the problem was an entity that has been intimidating to the neighbors.He said that he did not feel that CPNO should extend any accommodation to an entity whose modus operendi had been, in his experience, unbelievably uncooperative.

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  Published on: 12/1/2004    Last Visited: 3/29/2007  

  Bert Bellinson announced that Don Bender has asked that CPNO make a $1,000 contribution to keep the Zone 6 mini-precinct in Little Five Points.
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  Don Bender of the Little Five Points Business Association made a request that the CPNO donate $1,000 to the Zone 6 mini-precinct in Little Five Points.The Sembler Company had extended an offer of free space at their development.But Mr. Bender indicated that Major Banda committed to stay in Little Five Points if the Business Association and the CPNO and Inman Park neighborhood association contributed sufficient funds to pay for rent and utilities at the current mini-precinct.
  
  After Mr. Bender's presentation, was moved and seconded that CPNO donate $1,000 to the mini-precinct.The motion passed by a vote of 27 in favor, 1 opposed.
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  Don Bender read a report by Sarah Cook on the recent vote by the Board of the Freedom Park Conservancy to reject a proposal increasing the number of non-neighborhood directors of the Conservancy.

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  Published on: 12/24/2007    Last Visited: 12/24/2007  

  2-3 Don Bender

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  Don Bender, Atlanta, Georgia, is the owner and president of Neighborhood Commercial Redevelopment, Inc., which has, with its investors, bought, renovated, and leased commercial properties in three in-town Atlanta neighborhood shopping villages. It has turned these formerly run down commercial districts into viable, revitalized destinations. A central part of this revitalization has been creating space for the arts, including the adaptive re-use of two former boarded up movie theaters into live music and live theater venues. Don is in the process of turning his work over to younger associates and is beginning partial retirement.
  
  After graduating from Eastern Mennonite University, he taught elementary school for one year in Grottoes, Virginia, and beginning in 1966 taught three years in junior high and high school in Atlanta, Georgia. He lived at Mennonite House, located in an African-American neighborhood, as a volunteer under MCC for the first two years. In addition to his teaching, he was also active in the civil rights and peace movements there. In 1969 he married Judith Harak, whom he met in Atlanta. Together they served for two years as the program coordinators and residents at Quaker House with a primary emphasis on draft counseling.
  
  Don received his M.Ed. degree in adult education from the University of Georgia in 1971 and worked in adult education part time for 10 years, while also serving as homemaker while Judith taught at Atlanta University.
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  Beginning in 1977, Don began his business ventures, starting with a restaurant and gathering place before focusing on real estate redevelopment.
  
  Inspired by a core belief in the inclusion of all segments of society, he has been committed to neighborhood activism and community building, This has included leadership in neighborhood organizations and business associations. He was active in opposing a proposed expressway through his community and later served as president of Freedom Park Conservancy as it turned 200 acres of land intended as the expressway into a major linear city park.
  
  He was a leader in the early 1980s in the decision of the Atlanta Friends Meeting to declare itself a Sanctuary for Central American refugees. His family hosted a Salvadoran family for six months while they waited sanctuary in Canada.

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  Don Bender, Atlanta, Georgia, is the owner and president of Neighborhood Commercial Redevelopment, Inc., which has, with its investors, bought, renovated, and leased commercial properties in three in-town Atlanta neighborhood shopping villages.It has turned these formerly run down commercial districts into viable, revitalized destinations.A central part of this revitalization has been creating space for the arts, including the adaptive re-use of two former boarded up movie theaters into live music and live theater venues.Don is in the process of turning his work over to younger associates and is beginning partial retirement.
  
  After graduating from Eastern Mennonite University, he taught elementary school for one year in Grottoes, Virginia, and beginning in 1966 taught three years in junior high and high school in Atlanta, Georgia.He lived at Mennonite House, located in an African-American neighborhood, as a volunteer under MCC for the first two years.In addition to his teaching, he was also active in the civil rights and peace movements there.In 1969 he married Judith Harak, whom he met in Atlanta.Together they served for two years as the program coordinators and residents at Quaker House with a primary emphasis on draft counseling.
  
  Don received his M.Ed. degree in adult education from the University of Georgia in 1971 and worked in adult education part time for 10 years, while also serving as homemaker while Judith taught at Atlanta University.
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  Beginning in 1977, Don began his business ventures, starting with a restaurant and gathering place before focusing on real estate redevelopment.
  
  Inspired by a core belief in the inclusion of all segments of society, he has been committed to neighborhood activism and community building, This has included leadership in neighborhood organizations and business associations.He was active in opposing a proposed expressway through his community and later served as president of Freedom Park Conservancy as it turned 200 acres of land intended as the expressway into a major linear city park.
  
  He was a leader in the early 1980s in the decision of the Atlanta Friends Meeting to declare itself a Sanctuary for Central American refugees.His family hosted a Salvadoran family for six months while they waited sanctuary in Canada.

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  The Authors: Don Bender , Atlanta, Georgia, is owner of Neighborhood Commercial Redevelopment, Inc.

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  Published on: 9/29/2005    Last Visited: 4/5/2007  

  The Authors: Don Bender, Atlanta, Georgia, is owner of Neighborhood Commercial Redevelopment, Inc.

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  Creative Loafing - Creative Loafing Atlanta: News:... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/1/2006    Last Visited: 3/6/2006  

  In 2004, the ACLU filed suit on behalf of Don Bender, a commercial property owner who has commissioned murals for several of his buildings.The ACLU argued that the ordinance was a violation of artists' free speech and of due process.
  
  Bender, who owns buildings in Little Five Points, East Atlanta and Oakhurst Village, says he doesn't have any great love for graffiti -- at least the noncommissioned kind.But he does think property owners shouldn't be held responsible for other people's vandalism.

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