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NewTown Macon pleased with downtown activity
NewTown Macon pleased with downtown activity - Local & State - Macon (http://www.macon.com/198/story/486809.html - broken link)
six projects - two mixed-use commercial centers, expansions to the Ocmulgee Heritage Trail, NewTown's new management of Terminal Station, the ongoing alley streetscape initiative and a loft apartment development at Third and New streets.
18 new businesses opened downtown, employing about 80 people.
Of the projects NewTown is prioritizing for next year, three have residential components.
The New Street project will include four buildings, 43 units, divided into rental lofts and efficiencies.
At Third and Poplar streets, developers are transforming the Dannenberg Building into 40 loft units, including 10 condominiums for sale, and a restaurant and other retail space.
The old Capricorn recording studio on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and the former site of the Rescue Mission will be developed into an 85-room boutique hotel and 45 additional housing units, according to the organization.
Arena football might come back to macon.
Knights could re-emerge in af2 - Breaking News - Macon (http://www.macon.com/149/story/488761.html - broken link)
What is the deal with Macon Mall? So many stores are closing. Dillards is closing which will be a huge blow. Figured they would since they built another store. Doesn't look like it will last much longer.
What is the deal with Macon Mall? So many stores are closing. Dillards is closing which will be a huge blow. Figured they would since they built another store. Doesn't look like it will last much longer.
Macon Mall is extremely old and lasted a whole lot longer than Columbus Square.
I think the Bill Heard fiasco would be considered more of a huge blow than a Dillards (that is basically relocating)
I hear several storefronts at North Crossing are folding at the end of the year and more layoffs are in the wings for local financial employers
Macon Mall is extremely old and lasted a whole lot longer than Columbus Square.
I think the Bill Heard fiasco would be considered more of a huge blow than a Dillards (that is basically relocating)
I hear several storefronts at North Crossing are folding at the end of the year and more layoffs are in the wings for local financial employers
Umm ok, I guess I will call Ben Carter and ask him directly. You are an idiot man.
Macon Mall is extremely old and lasted a whole lot longer than Columbus Square.
I think the Bill Heard fiasco would be considered more of a huge blow than a Dillards (that is basically relocating)
I hear several storefronts at North Crossing are folding at the end of the year and more layoffs are in the wings for local financial employers
BTW, Heard will be bought out very soon so all of those employees will be back to work.
Columbus Park Crossing could soon begin adding another residential component to its mix of shopping, dining and entertainment offerings -- and with a splash of green.
The George M. Adams Co., a Columbus real estate firm, is preparing to construct a large apartment complex with additional retail and office space on about 65 acres of land south of Whittlesey Boulevard.
The site, situated behind a shopping center anchored by the Kohl's department store, would be part of a "planned unit development" that mandates extra greenspace for flexibility in constructing buildings.
"We're developing an area in which you can live, walk to your retailers, walk to your office, and also enjoy the amenities of a very nice apartment home," Stephen Harper, a real-estate consultant with Marietta, Ga.-based Pinnacle Partners, said Wednesday, moments after appearing at a Columbus Planning Advisory Commission meeting.
Harper, who represents the George M. Adams Co., attended the meeting to discuss the project and seek PAC's blessing for rezoning the property to the "planned unit development" classification. The land now has three zoning designations -- general commercial, residential-office and single-family residential.
After a brief presentation, PAC members voted 8-0 to recommend that the rezoning be approved by Columbus City Council at a later date, most likely in a few weeks. Council has the final say on rezoning matters.
No details of how much money it will cost to construct the development were disclosed.
The George C. Woodruff Co., a Columbus-based property development and management firm, is consulting on the project and is expected to handle leasing of the 746 apartment units currently on the drawing board.
The first of three phases would include up to 250 units, Harper said, with construction probably starting next spring. There also would be some retail space on the front portion of the property, which would have two outlets onto Whittlesey Boulevard.
"We're looking at retail in which you have State Farm, Allstate, insurance offices, things like that," Harper said, ruling out large anchor stores and restaurants. "There's plenty of restaurants over there already."
A key element of the development is that it would feature much more green- space and natural landscaping than typical apartment communities, Harper said. There are to be running trails, tree-lined streets and pedestrian walkways to the adjacent Columbus Botanical Garden.
The overall development will steer the now-forested property away from a primary commercial use, Harper said. That would have meant potentially about 400,000 square feet of retail space in an area that already has about 1 million square feet of shopping and dining establishments.
"The retail space has a far greater impact on the roads and the infrastructure," he said.
Rick Jones, director of the city's Planning Department, said the "planned unit development" is a good concept if the property owners and developers follow through on their plans properly.
"You could easily go out there and just basically strip the land and throw up a commercial building or another apartment complex, and there be nothing different about it other than maybe it's a little bit nicer and a little bit dressed up and so forth," he said.
The proposed project is required to integrate green- space with residential and pedestrian traffic, while offering unique design qualities that improve quality of life for the development's residents.
Though Jones said he has full confidence in the Wood- ruff Co. and its abilities to follow through on the project, the city planner still injected a tinge of caution into the equation.
"You always want to use a little bit of caution on that kind of stuff because you (can) get everybody's expectations up and then have to deflate them later on," he said.
Columbus Park Crossing has been in development since 2001, when Atlanta-based Ben Carter Properties began the rezoning effort on 400 acres of land at the southeast corner of Veterans Parkway and J.R. Allen Parkway.
The property was acquired from the George M. Adams Co., a family that had owned the land for decades. Four siblings -- George Adams Jr., Philip Adams, Ed Adams and Charlotte Adams -- control the company. Philip Adams said Wednesday the family will have no comment on the project.
New York-based Alvero Acquisition Corp. purchased about 750,000 square feet of the center from Ben Carter Properties about a year ago, paying more than $90 million.
Today, Columbus Park Crossing is a broad mix of chain restaurants, hotels, banks and automobile dealerships. There also is a 15-screen cinema complex and an apartment community called Greystone at Columbus Park.
Major store anchors include Sears, Circuit City, Barnes & Noble, Toys R Us, Marshalls, Ross Dress for Less, Kohl's, Petco, Dick's Sporting Goods, Wal-Mart Supercenter and Sam's Club.
THE DRAWING BOARD
Property owner: George M. Adams Co.
Location: 5550 Whittlesey Blvd.
Acreage: 65 acres
Zoning: Seeking planned unit development classification. Currently zoned general commercial, residential-office and single-family residential.
Project: 746 apartment units, commercial and office space, with retail shops averaging about 1,200 square feet. Amenities include trails, greenways, open space, natural buffers and a clubhouse.
BTW, Heard will be bought out very soon so all of those employees will be back to work.
Columbus Park Crossing could soon begin adding another residential component to its mix of shopping, dining and entertainment offerings -- and with a splash of green.
The George M. Adams Co., a Columbus real estate firm, is preparing to construct a large apartment complex with additional retail and office space on about 65 acres of land south of Whittlesey Boulevard.
The site, situated behind a shopping center anchored by the Kohl's department store, would be part of a "planned unit development" that mandates extra greenspace in Moderator cut: linking to competitors sites is not allowed, link removedexchange for flexibility in constructing buildings.
"We're developing an area in which you can live, walk to your retailers, walk to your office, and also enjoy the amenities of a very nice apartment home," Stephen Harper, a real-estate consultant with Marietta, Ga.-based Pinnacle Partners, said Wednesday, moments after appearing at a Columbus Planning Advisory Commission meeting.
Harper, who represents the George M. Adams Co., attended the meeting to discuss the project and seek PAC's blessing for rezoning the property to the "planned unit development" classification. The land now has three zoning designations -- general commercial, residential-office and single-family residential.
After a brief presentation, PAC members voted 8-0 to recommend that the rezoning be approved by Columbus City Council at a later date, most likely in a few weeks. Council has the final say on rezoning matters.
No details of how much money it will cost to construct the development were disclosed.
The George C. Woodruff Co., a Columbus-based property development and management firm, is consulting on the project and is expected to handle leasing of the 746 apartment units currently on the drawing board.
The first of three phases would include up to 250 units, Harper said, with construction probably starting next spring. There also would be some retail space on the front portion of the property, which would have two outlets onto Whittlesey Boulevard.
"We're looking at Moderator cut: linking to competitors sites is not allowed, link removeddestination retail in which you have State Farm, Allstate, insurance offices, things like that," Harper said, ruling out large anchor stores and restaurants. "There's plenty of restaurants over there already."
A key element of the development is that it would feature much more green- space and natural landscaping than typical apartment communities, Harper said. There are to be running trails, tree-lined streets and pedestrian walkways to the adjacent Columbus Botanical Garden.
The overall development will steer the now-forested property away from a primary commercial use, Harper said. That would have meant potentially about 400,000 square feet of retail space in an area that already has about 1 million square feet of shopping and dining establishments.
"The retail space has a far greater impact on the roads and the infrastructure," he said.
Rick Jones, director of the city's Planning Department, said the "planned unit development" is a good concept if the property owners and developers follow through on their plans properly.
"You could easily go out there and just basically strip the land and throw up a commercial building or another apartment complex, and there be nothing different about it other than maybe it's a little bit nicer and a little bit dressed up and so forth," he said.
The proposed project is required to integrate green- space with residential and pedestrian traffic, while offering unique design qualities that improve quality of life for the development's residents.
Though Jones said he has full confidence in the Wood- ruff Co. and its abilities to follow through on the project, the city planner still injected a tinge of caution into the equation.
"You always want to use a little bit of caution on that kind of stuff because you (can) get everybody's expectations up and then have to deflate them later on," he said.
Columbus Park Crossing has been in development since 2001, when Atlanta-based Ben Carter Properties began the rezoning effort on 400 acres of land at the southeast corner of Veterans Parkway and J.R. Allen Parkway.
The property was acquired from the George M. Adams Co., a family that had owned the land for decades. Four siblings -- George Adams Jr., Philip Adams, Ed Adams and Charlotte Adams -- control the company. Philip Adams said Wednesday the family will have no comment on the project.
New York-based Alvero Acquisition Corp. purchased about 750,000 square feet of the center from Ben Carter Properties about a year ago, paying more than $90 million.
Today, Columbus Park Crossing is a broad mix of Moderator cut: linking to competitors sites is not allowed, link removedretail stores[, chain restaurants, hotels, banks and automobile dealerships. There also is a 15-screen cinema complex and an apartment community called Greystone at Columbus Park.
Major store anchors include Sears, Circuit City, Barnes & Noble, Toys R Us, Marshalls, Ross Dress for Less, Kohl's, Petco, Dick's Sporting Goods, Wal-Mart Supercenter and Sam's Club.
THE DRAWING BOARD
Property owner: George M. Adams Co.
Location: 5550 Whittlesey Blvd.
Acreage: 65 acres
Zoning: Seeking planned unit development classification. Currently zoned general commercial, residential-office and single-family residential.
Project: 746 apartment units, commercial and office space, with retail shops averaging about 1,200 square feet. Amenities include trails, greenways, open space, natural buffers and a clubhouse.
Nobody will touch Bill Heard as GM announced friday they have about 6 months left to function and will NOT declare bankruptcy as nobody would buy a car from defunct company.
Bill has so many lawsuits it will keep that bunch in limbo for years.
To make matters worse they are trying to team up with Chrysler as we speak.
BTW, Heard will be bought out very soon so all of those employees will be back to work.
Columbus Park Crossing could soon begin adding another residential component to its mix of shopping, dining and entertainment offerings -- and with a splash of green.
The George M. Adams Co., a Columbus real estate firm, is preparing to construct a large apartment complex with additional retail and office space on about 65 acres of land south of Whittlesey Boulevard.
The site, situated behind a shopping center anchored by the Kohl's department store, would be part of a "planned unit development" that mandates extra greenspace for flexibility in constructing buildings.
"We're developing an area in which you can live, walk to your retailers, walk to your office, and also enjoy the amenities of a very nice apartment home," Stephen Harper, a real-estate consultant with Marietta, Ga.-based Pinnacle Partners, said Wednesday, moments after appearing at a Columbus Planning Advisory Commission meeting.
Harper, who represents the George M. Adams Co., attended the meeting to discuss the project and seek PAC's blessing for rezoning the property to the "planned unit development" classification. The land now has three zoning designations -- general commercial, residential-office and single-family residential.
After a brief presentation, PAC members voted 8-0 to recommend that the rezoning be approved by Columbus City Council at a later date, most likely in a few weeks. Council has the final say on rezoning matters.
No details of how much money it will cost to construct the development were disclosed.
The George C. Woodruff Co., a Columbus-based property development and management firm, is consulting on the project and is expected to handle leasing of the 746 apartment units currently on the drawing board.
The first of three phases would include up to 250 units, Harper said, with construction probably starting next spring. There also would be some retail space on the front portion of the property, which would have two outlets onto Whittlesey Boulevard.
"We're looking at retail in which you have State Farm, Allstate, insurance offices, things like that," Harper said, ruling out large anchor stores and restaurants. "There's plenty of restaurants over there already."
A key element of the development is that it would feature much more green- space and natural landscaping than typical apartment communities, Harper said. There are to be running trails, tree-lined streets and pedestrian walkways to the adjacent Columbus Botanical Garden.
The overall development will steer the now-forested property away from a primary commercial use, Harper said. That would have meant potentially about 400,000 square feet of retail space in an area that already has about 1 million square feet of shopping and dining establishments.
"The retail space has a far greater impact on the roads and the infrastructure," he said.
Rick Jones, director of the city's Planning Department, said the "planned unit development" is a good concept if the property owners and developers follow through on their plans properly.
"You could easily go out there and just basically strip the land and throw up a commercial building or another apartment complex, and there be nothing different about it other than maybe it's a little bit nicer and a little bit dressed up and so forth," he said.
The proposed project is required to integrate green- space with residential and pedestrian traffic, while offering unique design qualities that improve quality of life for the development's residents.
Though Jones said he has full confidence in the Wood- ruff Co. and its abilities to follow through on the project, the city planner still injected a tinge of caution into the equation.
"You always want to use a little bit of caution on that kind of stuff because you (can) get everybody's expectations up and then have to deflate them later on," he said.
Columbus Park Crossing has been in development since 2001, when Atlanta-based Ben Carter Properties began the rezoning effort on 400 acres of land at the southeast corner of Veterans Parkway and J.R. Allen Parkway.
The property was acquired from the George M. Adams Co., a family that had owned the land for decades. Four siblings -- George Adams Jr., Philip Adams, Ed Adams and Charlotte Adams -- control the company. Philip Adams said Wednesday the family will have no comment on the project.
New York-based Alvero Acquisition Corp. purchased about 750,000 square feet of the center from Ben Carter Properties about a year ago, paying more than $90 million.
Today, Columbus Park Crossing is a broad mix of chain restaurants, hotels, banks and automobile dealerships. There also is a 15-screen cinema complex and an apartment community called Greystone at Columbus Park.
Major store anchors include Sears, Circuit City, Barnes & Noble, Toys R Us, Marshalls, Ross Dress for Less, Kohl's, Petco, Dick's Sporting Goods, Wal-Mart Supercenter and Sam's Club.
THE DRAWING BOARD
Property owner: George M. Adams Co.
Location: 5550 Whittlesey Blvd.
Acreage: 65 acres
Zoning: Seeking planned unit development classification. Currently zoned general commercial, residential-office and single-family residential.
Project: 746 apartment units, commercial and office space, with retail shops averaging about 1,200 square feet. Amenities include trails, greenways, open space, natural buffers and a clubhouse.
This information is so badly dated.....rofl
Before your Selig predictions.
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