Glenridge Hall in Sandy Springs was demolished on Thursday. The Glenridge Hall Family Office is selling the property to developer Ashton Woods despite a public outcry.

The owner says it would cost nearly $11M to bring Glenridge Hall up to code. The price would rise to at least $25M to make it an event venue. The mansion is scheduled to be torn down later this year.

His great-granddaughter, Caroline Glenn Mayson, now controls it. Glenridge Hall is on the National Registry of Historic Places. It was also named to the list of Places in Peril by the Georgia Trust.

Mercedes' Glenridge Hall headquarters site gives the automaker the option to have a "campus-like" feel. Mercedes-Benz USA will fill as many as 600 corporate jobs in Atlanta as part of its ...