Development on a planned office building and underground garage on the southwest corner of Forsyth Park will move forward in January after the property owners won several legal rulings.
The project, which aims to provide new office space to several of Savannah’s oldest white-collar businesses, faced sharp criticism in 2025 from a coalition of historic preservationists, Victorian District neighbors and local lawyers. Their objections varied. Some were displeased over the changing face of a largely residential neighborhood and the city’s role in financing part of the project, while others were critical of the municipal planning commission’s zoning and permitting decisions and what they said was a lack of transparency by developers and supporters of the $35 million project.
Still others had personal grievances with the lead principals behind the project, including David Paddison, the president of Sterling Seacrest Pritchard and Reed Dulany III, the chairman and chief executive officer of Dulany Industries, Inc. (Editor’s note: Paddison is a member of the governing board and a donor of The Current GA.)…