Question for Mid-Georgia peeps!

[Black1]

Anyone know who is putting up that monstrosity of a Distribution Center on I-16, around Mile Marker 40??? :dontknow: My drivers are calling me, saying I should check it out (for new business) but I got no idea who is building it. Any help would be great... thanks. :rock:

 

[Turtle]

Anyone know who is putting up that monstrosity of a Distribution Center on I-16, around Mile Marker 40??? :dontknow: My drivers are calling me, saying I should check it out (for new business) but I got no idea who is building it. Any help would be great... thanks. :rock:

I don't know if this is correct (I'm sure someone in Georgia can confirm this) but this is some information I found out from a mid-Georgia tv station . . .

ACADEMY SPORTS & OUTDOORS DISTRIBUTION CENTER!!! (200 Jobs) - I-16 (Twiggs Co.) - Coming 2009

New Jobs Headed to Twiggs
Last Update: 3/28/2008 6:06:13 PM
Author: Bernie O'Donnell

A Texas company plans to build a million-dollar truck maintenance facility in the Twiggs county industrial park, near the intersection of highway 96 and Interstate 16, according to county administrator Glenn Barton.

Texas Freight will hire about 50 people, mostly truck drivers and office personnel, said Ken Smith, the company's president. The company will transport goods for Academy Sports, which is building a $50 million distribution center in the Twiggs industrial park.

Texas Freight's growth in Twiggs county will depend on Academy Sports, Smith said. But it could employ from 100 to 150 in three to five years, Smith added.

It's the second company that signs up to move into Twiggs County's 715-acre industrial park.

Texas Freight bought seven acres at $18,750 per acre, county administrator Glenn Barton said. They did not get any tax incentives, Barton said.

Academy Sports was the first company to move into the Twiggs industrial park and got more than 145 acres for free.

The Jeffersonville-Twiggs County Industrial Development Authority spent about $1.9 million dollars buying the land for the industrial park. It hoped to attract industry after the county lost hundreds of kaolin jobs.

Twiggs County Commission Chairman Ray Bennett says the deals with Academy Sports and Texas Freight are steps in the right direction. He hopes other industries will locate there.

"We know that we are in a choice location with I-16... and with highway 96 and we know that in time we'll have other interests," Bennett said.

But for now, Twiggs officials are celebrating the fifty new jobs and what they mean for the county's economy.

"It'll be a lot of money, extra money coming in for the town itself," said trucker Anthony Preston, who stopped for lunch in Jeffersonville. "Plus all the taxes and everything, that really helps. Small fuel stops, like the place like this right here, it'll be a big impact on them."

Ken Smith expects construction for Texas Freight's facility to begin in April. Dublin Construction will build the facility, Smith said. It should be complete by October. And the company hopes it will be fully operational by early 2009.

Texas Freight is based in Houston, Texas. The Twiggs County facility will be its second in the country.


Link: http://www.13wmaz.com/news/local_story.aspx?storyid=50614.

 

[Turtle]

Other information about the Macon area (dated back to June 2007)

List of what development are Proposed or either under construction NOW!
South Macon/Bibb County

Lifestyle/"Strip Center" in South Macon just off of I-75 South on Hartley Bridge Road. Moon Family Properties is behind this 1.1 million sqft project. It will include 1,700 single family units, two to four story condos, and apartment community, retail, dinning, a mid-rise hotel, and office space. The development will be on both sides of Hartley Bridge Rd
Three fast-food restaurants, a convenience store, drug store, auto parts store, a bank and two hotels have committed to be part of a $500 million mixed-use development in south Bibb County off of Hartley bridge rd. The businesses that have committed to the project are Zaxby's, Flash Foods/Dairy Queen, McDonald's, CVS/pharmacy, Advance Auto and Atlantic Southern Bank and 2 Hotels.
The I-75/I-475 interchanges reconstruction

• Hartley station retail & commercial, residential developments,
• Sara less plant
• Kohl’s DC
• Nicnochi plant


Northwest Macon, lifestyle centers

• Opus Shoppes of Macon come to 125,000 sq. ft. bring the total retail space of the Zebulon Rd. /I-475 area over the 1 million mark, along with 300 upscale garden apartment units.

• New sub division and commercial area at Lake Tobesofkee. The commercial area will know as town center with 20,000sq ft of light and low impact retail and commercial use professional offices and a restaurant and another area which will provide additional 12000 sq ft more commercial space. The sub div. will include 70 town houses and 281 detached single family houses. The project was supposed to include condos but they were deleted from the project...

North Macon Developments:

• Bass Pro Shops - 600,000 sq. ft.

• Market place at bass project -a major national department store and five anchors

• Bass Rd. Upscale Retail Shopping Center - 400,000 to 500,000 sq. ft.

• Lullwater Village - 284,000 sq. ft.


• Providence Town Center - 750,000 sq. ft.- Welcome to Providence - A Family Village
Providence, two mixed-use buildings with retail on the ground floor and two levels of loft apartments above, a four-story hotel and conceptual plans for a bank and a pre-school facility, according to the staff report.


• The two mixed-use buildings include plans for 23,320 square feet of shop space and 131,500 square feet for loft apartments. The design includes wide sidewalks, parks, a fountain, lake and nature preserve.


• North Winds Office Complex - 400,000 sq. ft. it will be a big-box development. One large big-box retailer (144,000 square feet), with 22 out-parcels,
• Fuddruckers was also going to be a part of North Winds

• Shoppes at River Crossing- 2008 completion date- Riverside Dr. Upscale
• Retail Center - 850,000 to 900,000 sq. ft.

• Total New Retail Space of North Macon developments: 2.8 to 3.0 million sq. ft. That's more retail space than the Mall of Georgia! That total doesn't include the hotels or the North Winds Office Complex. In addition, more businesses are trying to relocate offices to the area surrounding Lull water.

• Butler Mega Dealership ( Toyota, BMW, Lexus & Scion)

• Plans include 24 single-family lots, 55 town home units, 36 quad-apartments, 420 garden apartments, 12 lofts and 15,000 square feet of retail space on Ark Wright Road from single-family and multi-family
• Ruby Tuesday's – Zebulon Rd. - Coming soon-NW Macon

• Advance Auto Parts - Zebulon Rd. (In Opus Shoppes) - Coming Soon- NW Macon
• Five Guys Burgers and Fries - Tom Hill - Coming Soon-North Macon

• Starbucks - Bass Rd. (In Lull water Village) - Coming Soon-North Macon
• CVS Pharmacy - Zebulon Rd. (In Opus Shoppes) - Coming Soon- NW Macon
• Capital City Bank - Zebulon Rd. - Coming Soon- NW Macon
• Walgreen - Zebulon Rd. - Coming Soon- NW Macon

• Giuseppe's Pizza - Tom Hill - Coming Soon-North Macon
• BB&T Bank - Bass Rd. (Market Place @ Bass) - Coming 2008-North Macon

• McDonald's - Bass Rd. (Market Place @ Bass) - Coming Fall 2007-North Macon

• Quiznos - Across from Bass Pro Shop- North Macon

• The Fresh Market (Grocery) - Rivoli Crossing - Coming Soon-NW Macon

• Hampton Inn & Suites - (off of Arkright Rd.) - Coming Winter 2007-North Macon
• New Southern Bank - Bass Rd. - Coming Summer 2007-North Macon

• Microtel Inn & Suite - Bowman Rd. - Coming Soon

• Mo-Joe's Wings - Zebulon Rd. - Now Open- NW Macon


Downtown/Midtown Macon

• Tattnall Place, a new collection of mixed-income townhouses in downtown Macon's historic district

• Beall's Hill Project-Beall's Hill residential development project is the largest of its kind in the state outside Atlanta

• Proposed Convention Center (4 star) Marriott Hotel Downtown somewhere between 250-300 rooms

• Riverside Project -Riverside, Macon's first mixed use live/work/play development, will sit along the banks of the Ocmulegee near downtown.
• Retail, office and a hotel topped by condominiums will extend the central business district farther north along Riverside Drive.

• Mercer’s developed a ( Hilton Garden Hotel) opens summer 2007

• Macon to Atlanta Passenger Rail proposed….

• Macon's first new downtown apartment complex the 80-unit development- Cherry and Spring streets

• Macon Mayor Jack Ellis' administration is pushing a plan to privatize the city's aviation operations, and the company it has picked to take over says it can grow
• Middle Georgia Regional Airport into a secondary destination to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.( TBI Airport Management Inc)

• Georgia DOT gets closer to finally selecting a plan for the I-75/I-16 interchange(I-16 will be 12 lanes at its widest point,
• Coliseum Drive will be widened to 6 lanes
• Second Street will be widened to 6 lanes
• I-75 will be 9 lanes at its widest point

• 2 Proposed riverfront high rise Condos

• 9 story State of that Art Cardiac Center DT( Under construction) 2008

• Market City Cafe' - Cherry St./Third St. - Coming Summer 2007

• Skye Lounge Night Club - Plum St. (DT) - Coming Soon

• Spaghetti Alley - The Alley/Second St. - Now Open

• Parking Deck/70 Apts./Retail - DT (Poplar/Cherry Street Ln.) - 2007

• Molly's Cafe Cherry St
• T.G.I. Fridays & Starbucks Coming to DT Macon




East Macon Developments:
• Ruby Tuesday's - Gray Hwy. - Coming soon-East Macon

• MBM/Chick-fil-A Distribution Center - Ocmulgee East Industrial Park - Coming Fall 2007 (200 jobs)-East Macon



• Mellow mushroom opening spring 08
• Boeing to add 75 JOBS due to a new contract from the U.S. Air Force.
• ACADEMY SPORTS & OUTDOORS DISTRIBUTION CENTER!!! (200 Jobs) - I-16 (Twiggs Co.) - Coming 2009

In the Metro area Developments:

• Fort Valley State University Discussing Hotel/Golf Course Resort Possibility
Crumbly, the college vice president of Collaborative Programs is discussing possibility of developing Public/private Partnerships to build a 250 room hotel/ conference center and 18 holes PGA golf course restaurant and other amenities on the university Farm property. The facilities would be part of a new degree programs for golf course management, turf management and hotel management.

• Frito Lay (Expansion) - 80 Jobs - Houston Co.

• Cimentos North America - Ga 247 Ho. Co. - (Will Employ 100 @ $43,000/yr) Coming 2010-South Macon


• Houston County's Oaky Woods to be Development of 30,000 new homes
Houston to be Developed, Development calls for 30,000 new homes to be built to be Developed, Development calls for 30,000 new homes to be built Woods to be Developed, Development calls for 30,000 new homes to be built

 

[FATJACK]

Damn, Ask and you shall recieve, way to go Denise!!!

 

[Black1]

Twiggs County is about 20 miles north of where my drivers are saying this is... But, it very well could be the place! Acadamy Sports could be it! ..... Thanks for the tip, Sweetie. :rock:

 

[Turtle]

Damn, Ask and you shall recieve, way to go Denise!!!

WHO? :dontknow: :dontknow: :dontknow:

I think you've got me confused with someone else!

:turtle: :turtle:
(aka - Alex)

 

[Turtle]

Twiggs County is about 20 miles north of where my drivers are saying this is... But, it very well could be the place! Acadamy Sports could be it! ..... Thanks for the tip, Sweetie. :rock:

anything for you baby


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[6pakattack]

ANYTHING ?????

 

[Black1]

anything for you baby


:elefant: :elefant: :elefant:

roud: :flowers: :girlshit: :dancing: :laugh:

 

[walenator]

That's Bone's area. Maybe he knows.:dontknow:

 

[Turtle]

ANYTHING ?????

Watch it there! I'm strictly talking information


(ha ha ha ha ha! :rofl: :rofl



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[FATJACK]

WHO? :dontknow: :dontknow: :dontknow:

I think you've got me confused with someone else!

:turtle: :turtle:
(aka - Alex)

Sorry, I was just trying to brag on you ALEX.

 

[Turtle]

Sorry, I was just trying to brag on you ALEX.

aww - thanks Not that I don't mind being mistaken for Wifey - I just wanted to make sure you knew exactly who is the master of useless information
I don't know a lot about everything - I just know a lot about nothing that pertains to me

ha ha ha ha ha - :rofl: :rofl: