§24 — Family / Entities / Deeper Knowledge Appendix

Status: [APPENDIX — context only, not operating doctrine]

Principle: Context is useful; it is not the spine. This appendix exists to give a future reader background where it serves understanding, without that context driving operating decisions.

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24.1 What this appendix is — and isn't

This appendix holds deeper context that is referenced elsewhere in the master document as "see §24" — including:

• Atlantic American family entity history (referenced in §13 as future cross-sell only, not woven into the operating spine).
• Gray Media's broader entity context as relevant to Assembly Atlanta.
• Doraville / DeKalb / Atlanta civic history relevant to the campus.
• Notable individuals associated with the campus's origin story (developers, planners, public officials).

It is not an operating section. Decisions made with reference to this appendix should always also be supported by §3 Structure & Entities (operating-current) and §11 GovRel (current-state public-side ecosystem).

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24.2 Atlantic American Industries / AAME — placement

Atlantic American family history and entity context is deliberately held in this appendix, not in the spine of the document, for two reasons:

1. The campus operating model does not depend on AAME relationships. (See §13.)

2. Bundling family-and-entity history into operating doctrine creates the wrong impression for future readers.

The detail itself — full entity tree, family history, governance — lives in a separate AAME context file maintained by Gray's corporate legal function. This appendix is the pointer, not the content.

→ Referenced source location: [INTERNAL — AAME context file, custody Gray legal]

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24.3 Gray Media — relevant entity context

Public, summary level only:

• Gray Media (NYSE: GTN) is the campus's parent / capital-source entity for Assembly Atlanta. Public disclosures include Assembly-related CapEx in 2021 ($109M), 2022 ($264M), 2023 ($240M), and 2024 (~$35M net) (Gray Investor Deck, March 2024; Gray Q3 2024 GlobeNewswire).
• Gray's broader broadcast portfolio is not directly relevant to campus operations and is intentionally not detailed here.
• Related-party transactions referenced in Gray's public filings are governed by Gray's existing related-party process and are not modified by anything in this document.

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24.4 Doraville / DeKalb / Atlanta civic context

Brief, useful background:

• The campus sits on the former General Motors Doraville Assembly plant (groundbreaking 1945, opened 1948, closed September 26, 2008) (Past Tense GA).
• The plant's closure eliminated approximately 10% of Doraville's tax base and 36% of city employment — a fact that shapes how the campus shows up as a neighbor.
• The campus has direct rail access via MARTA's Doraville Station and is positioned within the Chamblee–Doraville CID mobility footprint (CDCID Mobility Master Plan).
• Atlanta itself was originally named Terminus — the end of the rail line. The site we are building on connects directly into that history.

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24.5 People associated with the origin story (named role-by-role; for context only)

Because §3 Structure & Entities treats people seat-by-seat, this appendix gives a brief role-based attribution for the campus's origin story — useful for future readers, with no operating implication.

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24.6 What lives elsewhere

• Operating org / seats — see §3 (Structure & Entities) and §8 (Personnel Flow).
• Current public-side ecosystem (CID, TAD, SSD, regulators) — see §11 and §16.
• Cross-sell strategy — separate paper, referenced lightly in §13.

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24.7 Open items

• TBD Confirm AAME context file custody location.
• TBD Add brief Doraville / DeKalb / Atlanta civic-context references to §11 working memory.
• CONFIRM Appendix scope holds at "context, not operating doctrine."

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The discipline of an appendix: it informs the spine, but the spine does not depend on it.