Donning hard hats and construction vests, Alex Gee showed me most every room on all three floors of the 37,500-square-foot building overlooking the Beltline last week.
The inside of the Center for Black Excellence and Culture won’t be ready to welcome the public for about 10 weeks, as there is much uncompleted interior detail. Still, one can already envision the multitude of purposes the graceful, glassy building will serve in coming years.
Gee, of course, is the Rev. Alex Gee, lead pastor of Fountain of Life Covenant Church, which abuts the Center on West Badger Road. He was also the visionary who in the 1990s created the Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development and its “Justified Anger” initiative in the aftermath of his 2013 cover essay under that headline that appeared in the Cap Times…