Developments in Macon "From North Macon Upscale retail to Dowtown living" (Atlanta: homes, neighborhood)
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Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission passed Rivoli, Bass rezoning of 71-acre in north Macon- Bibb County. The purpose of the rezoning is to allow developers to build a mixed-use senior-housing community called Founders Pond at Rivoli Drive and Bass Road, which would include townhouses, single-family homes and a retirement center.
I-75 South Hartley Bridge exit opens
this Video show the project Months later but traveling down I-75 south headed toward the split and Hartley Bridge Rd.
The Hilton's Homewood Suites is about to open in north Macon on Bass Road. The hotel with full kitchens in each room caters to extended stays. It is part of a planned community near the Providence neighborhoods.
Heavy equipment began tearing down Macon's old Transit Authority building Wednesday morning on Riverside Drive in downtown Macon. The city hopes the property will be developed into upscale apartments.
Pearl Stephens Village nears completion
The Macon Housing Authority has turned the 1920s-era school into apartments for low-income senior citizens. The 13 former classrooms inside have been revamped into 800-square foot, one bedroom apartments that rent for about $500 a month.
More projects in Macon
Korea-based Kumho Tire Company with plans in hand for the construction of a 5.5-million-square-foot manufacturing plant that will create 450 jobs and represent a $225 million investment.
On the drawing boards now is a $26 million mixed-use development along Martin Luther King Boulevard that will include a 30-unit town home community, a five-story residential/retail/commercial building, an 85-room boutique hotel, the restoration and renovation of the city’s old Rescue Mission and the rehabilitation of the building housing the historic Capricorn Records studio.
NewTown Macon leaders have set a goal of raising $21 million in public and private funds to improve infrastructure, restore building façades and add 60 new businesses and 1,000 new residents to downtown over the next five years. As 2009 began, NewTown had received commitments and pledges totaling 60 percent of the $21 million goal.
Macon Mayor Robert Reichert is looking at another rehab project in a declining area known for years as the Downtown Industrial Park. Structures in the area, located just behind Macon’s historic train station, are more than a century old. “That part of Macon had heavy industry sites, such as the old train station roundhouse and locomotive and train car repair shops,” Reichert says. “We’re working on rehabilitation plans now to turn the area into commercial properties with loft apartments on the upper floors.”
The new Marriott opens in October and will add 220 rooms to local lodging. That’s in addition to 1,000 additional new rooms that opened recently, a healthy complement to the community’s tourism industry, one that withstood recent economic downturns across the country and state. Macon’s central location in Georgia remains an important feature in attracting tourist dollars.
Several old school buildings will soon be out of the hands of the Bibb County school system since an auction drew buyers for three of four schools that were up for sale.
Both Redding Elementary in Lizella and Weir Elementary on Rocky Creek Road, which have been closed to students for at least five years, are being purchased by Macon business owner Ashok Patel.
Majority of old Bibb schools attract buyers - Local & State - Macon (http://www.macon.com/198/story/693269.html - broken link)
The planned project are the widening of I-75 to six lanes from south of Pierce Avenue to north of Arkwright Road, closing the existing southbound on and off ramps north and south of Pierce and replacing them with new ramps that will join Riverside Drive north of Pierce at the entrance to the River street Corners Shopping Center, and widening Riverside Drive at the new on and off ramps.
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