Capital B Atlanta

For Project Robin to become a reality, funding still needs to be fully secured. Courtney English, the mayor’s chief of staff, said at the meeting that the city would need to provide around $110 million over the next decade to support the project.

The project was originally proposed to the City Council as part of a list of projects that would be supported by the mayor’s Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative — if the legislation is approved. The initiative involves extending six of the city’s eight Tax Allocation Districts through 2056 and using the tax revenue to conduct hundreds of projects in the city.

TADs are assigned areas where new property tax revenue is generated to fund infrastructure projects within those same areas.

English said a potential funding option for the hospital would be to use dollars from the Beltline TAD and to also use funds from a “special service district” that would levy an additional tax on businesses in the city. The revenue from that district would go into a trust fund to support community development.

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