Atlanta, GA: The World Children’s Center is a 720-acre sustainable boarding school campus located 40 minutes west of Metro Atlanta that was being developed to serve 800+ homeless, orphaned, trafficked and neglected children. This week, its Founder, President & CEO and Board of Directors made a decision to halt development and sell the breathtaking property, which includes a private registered airstrip and hanger, a 25-acre lake, and a 7000-sqft 10-bedroom home. To keep in-line with the original vision of the World Children’s Center, 100% of the proceeds will go towards forming a new non-profit to benefit the same children in need, dubbed the World Children’s Foundation.
“It’s been a long journey and we’ve given it our all. We tried to do the right thing by working to provide hope and love for socially and economically disadvantaged children who we have a responsibility to help,” said the owner, Donald H. Whitney. “For 15 years, we have had hundreds of meetings with investors, foundations, and local governments to spearhead this community for children. While there has been great interest with many investors and donors, in the end, no individual or foundation stepped up. We are extremely proud of the development, infrastructure (including roads, power, water, gas and fiber), and building construction progress to date, but our project phasing plan has grinded to a halt due to this lack of essential endowment and funding needed to sustain the project’s long-term operations. Without great partnerships with folks who share the same vision of helping children in the greatest of need, the dream of the World Children’s Center as a physical place cannot be fully realized, so we must change course.”
And so, after much prayer and soul-searching, it was decided that it is best to sell this magnificent property and use the proceeds to form a new foundation to help kids in a different way. The foundation will be called, appropriately, the World Children’s Foundation, in honor of the original vision of the World Children’s Center.”
More about the property:
This unique 720-acre parcel is centrally located, less than an hour from Downtown Atlanta. It is in a strategic geographic location which includes a global corporate business destination, the world’s busiest airport, centrally located between Atlanta, Birmingham, and Chattanooga (The “ABC Triangle”). This one-of-a-kind property includes a 25-acre spring-fed lake along with 3 spring-fed ponds, an FAA-registered private airstrip with large hangar, roads, underground utilities and fiber optics installed, breathtaking rolling topography, expansive West Georgia views, a large custom home, and a private gated entrance. The land would be suitable for a corporate headquarters, film studio or set, hunting lodge, family retreat, ministry camp, expansion distribution center, private estate, among many other possible uses.
For those interested in learning more and seeing the property please contact:
Triune Realty
(770)-889-2289
triunerealty.com
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