“We hope that having a safe, accessible place to call home here in Atlanta while they are away from their own homes will help lift the incredible burden of these types of trauma in some small way,” said Arthur Blank in a prepared statement, “so that families and patients can focus on their healing and each other at a time when that is the most important and most needed.” More than half of patients currently come to the center for treatment from outside Georgia. The goal is to ease the financial burden on families who would otherwise have to find lodging elsewhere in Atlanta, per Shepherd Center officials. The residential tower will allow Shepherd Center to add 160 new apartments and more than double its capacity for housing day-program patients and families whose relatives are grappling with spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, chronic pain, multiple sclerosis, and other neurological ailments. It’s replacing the former restaurant buildings long occupied by Uncle Julio’s and Ted’s Montana Grill, which were razed earlier this year. Blank Family Residences, following a $50-million capital grant from the Atlanta Falcons and United owner’s family foundation. The southernmost tower, located at 1860 Peachtree Road, will be called the Arthur M. Blank Family Residences housing tower will allow Shepherd Center to more than double its housing capacity, adding 160 accessible units, officials say.
Replacing two restaurant spaces, the Arthur M.
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