Hotel/residential tower and Mix Used Project Planned for Downtown Macon

[Atlanta-Kid]

Havent been on in a while
So I just asked
Thanks for telling me
Forgot

[Atlanta-Kid]

Originally Posted by georgemacon

rendering of the project

Someone needs to pick this project back up.

[midgeorgiaman]

Probably dead forever. Land was found to have a high amount of pollution. It was land owned by the power campany in the early 1900s when there were no pollution standards. To develop this land, all soil to a ridiculously deep level would have to be removed and replaced. That is prohibitively expensive. So now it is a field where people dump their Christmas trees for recycling.

[maconfinance]

I remember reading a few years back that it isn’t as bad as initially thought and the pollution can be encased and then residential development would be safe. If that’s the case it may be possible to revive something similar to this development in the future.

[Atlanta-Kid]

I Agree- A nice little social hub would fit nice
Something similar to Avalon in Alpharetta or The Wharf in Savannah
Or even Interlock Atlanta

[NewtownMacon]

Looks like this Project is Coming 2022. Excited to see this happening!!!

Resurrection of Renaissance on the River
Former Mercer University President Kirby Godsey, who was the founding chairman of NewTown Macon, is expected to hold a groundbreaking for a major development along Riverside Drive, NewTown Macon CEO Josh Rogers told Business Improvement District, or BID, members at the last meeting.

Godsey renewed his option with the Urban Development Authority on what was billed in 2011 as a $50 million, mixed-use development anchored by an upscale tower hotel with a top floor restaurant.

The project, which included condominiums, office space and a public parking deck, stalled due to environmental concerns from the land’s prior use as a gas manufacturing plant. Residue was buried on the site.

UDA attorney Blake Sharpton recently reviewed the environmental covenants that no longer bar residential development on the majority of the site between the Burger King and Barks N’ Brews dog park.

“We are clear of the state (Environmental Protection Division) to proceed with development on that site,” Shelton told the authority in October.

The restriction on a portion of the property to not dig down 15 feet is “not going to be a huge problem,” Shelton said.

In December, the Macon-Bibb County Commission agreed to transfer nearly 2.5 acres at 815 Riverside Drive to the authority to market for the proposed development.

UDA executive director Alex Morrison told the authority that Burger King may also expand its nearby location. The restaurant owner purchased some of the land from Macon-Bibb County a few years ago after the condominium project stalled.

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