Project Jackson Could Be Delayed Until 2017 (Atlanta, Riverside: townhome, neighborhoods, buyers)

[Big J]

When are any of the restaurants or retail going to be announced?

[Airforceguy]

Another essential piece of Riverside Village was approved by the North Augusta Planning Commission.

Dirt has been moving on Riverside Village for more than a month now, but just this week the community got yet another glimpse of what the end product will look like.

“Growth is a good thing,” said North Augusta resident Louis Hale.

After months of going back and forth, North Augusta city leaders hit it out of the ball park with The Clubhouse at Riverside Village.

“It looks like a pretty modern building?” Asked NewsChannel 6’s Stefany Bornman.

“Yes sure does,” Hale told WJBF NewsChannel 6.

“Does that fit with the rest of North Augusta?” Asked NewsChannel 6’s Stefany Bornman.

“As its evolving yes. Not as it used to be,” said Hale.

“The stadium is designed as a very modern, very progressive interactive type of facility and they wanted The Clubhouse to be a part of that.” Interim Director of Planning and Development Charles Martin said.

The 7-story multi-use complex, going behind left field, will house the new offices for the Augusta GreenJackets.

It also includes a totally new amenity for Auggie, the team and the community.

“It will include parking on the ground level, clubhouse activities for the team and the staff on the concourse level, and a few offices,” Martin said. “Then the top floors will be a rental apartments.”

The Clubhouse at Riverside Village will house Augusta GreenJackets offices, team pregame hangout | WJBF-TV

[Airforceguy]

The stadium at Riverside Village is on schedule and announcements about restaurants and retail could come soon, City Administrator Todd Glover told North Augusta City Council members Monday night.

The Clubhouse – a seven-story building with apartments, team offices and locker rooms – the hotel and two parking decks have been approved by the city Planning Commission. Structural steel framing is going up and a tall cinderblock structure that will house elevators and staircases can be seen easily from the bridge.

But as they have dug deeper into the outfield, construction workers have found contaminated soil that will cost the city some contingency dollars it hadn’t expected to spend in that way.

Exactly how much isn’t known yet, but about $300,000 in contingency funds has been set aside, Councilman Fletcher Dickert said. He and Councilman David McGhee, who have construction backgrounds, make up a special oversight committee on Riverside Village work.

Stadium on schedule, but contaminated soil could be costly | The Augusta Chronicle

[Airforceguy]

"We're finally going to have some shops that people have long wanted on this side of the river, places to spend their money in North Augusta," North Augusta City Councilman Fletcher Dickert said.

Still months into construction and not a single business revealed, all under wraps and it could be an even longer wait.

"I have a feeling it's probably going to end up being in the fall before we're hearing some announcements, so there's not enough time for a competitor to swoop in and get an existing building in our downtown," Dickert said.

And that's the main reason we're still looking at the fake business names like Sharpest Image or Brookstore in the fly through video. Doctor Will Hatcher, Director of the Public Administration Program at Augusta University, says while it's frustrating to go months without any announcements, it's all part of the process when government and the private sector work together.


"There's a time when you have to have everything put in place before you start making a lot of those announcements too, but it's about keeping that partnership strong and keeping it together," he said.

The city says the developer is ahead of schedule when it comes to leasing the buildings, but again businesses are wary of being scooped. The developer is currently trying to get three to four businesses to announce at the same time.

It could be fall until new business names revealed for Riverside Village

[burr]

Too bad they had to change the project name, most notibly for the founder of this small suburb, JamesJackson. S'pose they want to put all the court procedures, non-support, negative facts and pleas from the people behind, start using and referring to a new keyword, a blank sheet. I reckon this thread will be long forgotten this time next year and all will be filed under a new thread - river village.

and I can't forget - one road in, one road out.

[Airforceguy]

New renderings of the Crowne Plaza Hotel and residential developments in Riverside Village...
Crowne Plaza Hotel@Riverside Village-North Augusta,SC by brandon walker, on Flickr

Crowne Plaza Hotel@Riverside Village-North Augusta,SC by brandon walker, on Flickr

Riverside Village-North Augusta,SC by brandon walker, on Flickr

[GRU_Minion]

Originally Posted by burr

Too bad they had to change the project name, most notibly for the founder of this small suburb, JamesJackson. S'pose they want to put all the court procedures, non-support, negative facts and pleas from the people behind, start using and referring to a new keyword, a blank sheet. I reckon this thread will be long forgotten this time next year and all will be filed under a new thread - river village.

and I can't forget - one road in, one road out.

Project Jackson was the codename used for the development since the time that they weren't allowed to speak on what it was publicly. When has the codename for a project EVER been the actual name of the final project? Of course it's different now that it's in progress and being finalized...


Also, it's Riverside Village. Since you're going to be complaining about it on a regular basis, you should at least know the real name.

[Big J]

I thought the hotel was supposed to resemble the old Hampton terrace hotel?

[GRU_Minion]

Originally Posted by Big J

I thought the hotel was supposed to resemble the old Hampton terrace hotel?

I believe those were apartments and not the hotel. A hotel anywhere near the scale of Hampton Terrace would be a resort nowadays, and not a hotel. Further, the renderings that depicted this were some of the first ones when none of that stuff was secured yet and was just speculative. None of the more recent renderings (from the last year at least) reflect the Hampton Terrace aesthetic.

[Pu239]

Look Marge... isn't this a beautiful view of the levee....