BRAC and Kia Set to Make Columbus an Economic Oasis (homes, salaries)

[ATLCOL1]

Originally Posted by powerplay

Remember we are talking about Columbus the economic oasis not Atlanta poverty.
Like comparing an apple to an orange.
Please stay on topic.....still waiting for your credible info.

When you stay on topic I, along with everyone who sees right thru you, will do also.

Have you read up on all of the good information????

[powerplay]

Originally Posted by ATLCOL1

When you stay on topic I, along with everyone who sees right thru you, will do also.

Have you read up on all of the good information????

Who is everyone and we you keep talking about?
That alone proves a lack of credibility....
I think you have run out of we's and us's....

[ATLCOL1]

Originally Posted by powerplay

That alone proves a lack of credibility....

Can't believe you have the audacity to say that considering you have not once posted anything that is credible ROFL

Like I always have to say to you, please stay on topic. If you have nothing to add to the thread, then please don't post. People read the threads for information. So AGAIN, please stay on topic.

Moderators, please make sure Mr. Powerplay stays on topic.

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Stay on topic. Attempts to hi-jack threads by switching topics or going off topic will be deleted and infractions issued. This is not a chat room - when people hi-jack threads by posting messages that are of interest to only few people, the threads often stop being useful discussions of initial topics.

[powerplay]

Originally Posted by ATLCOL1

Can't believe you have the audacity to say that considering you have not once posted anything that is credible ROFL

Like I always have to say to you, please stay on topic. If you have nothing to add to the thread, then please don't post. People read the threads for information. So AGAIN, please stay on topic.

Moderators, please make sure Mr. Powerplay stays on topic.

FYI:

Stay on topic. Attempts to hi-jack threads by switching topics or going off topic will be deleted and infractions issued. This is not a chat room - when people hi-jack threads by posting messages that are of interest to only few people, the threads often stop being useful discussions of initial topics.

I think you are a little confused maybe..
You would be guilty of posting the same things over and over that are opinions rather than fact.
Nice try but lets get to the point..........

[danmandr]

We rode past the KIA Plant today on our way back from Franklin, TN. and I was suprised just how far they have come in the last few months since I last saw the construction. It looks nearly done and it is massive. Must be a mile long!

[ATLCOL1]

Originally Posted by danmandr

We rode past the KIA Plant today on our way back from Franklin, TN. and I was suprised just how far they have come in the last few months since I last saw the construction. It looks nearly done and it is massive. Must be a mile long!

It is an amazing site I will say.

[saharaga]

Originally Posted by ATLCOL1

It is an amazing site I will say.

Now if only they would pay their bills...
WTVM.com and WTVM News Leader 9, Columbus, GA | KIA Subcontractors Dispute Payment

[Columbusattorney]

Originally Posted by saharaga

Now if only they would pay their bills...
WTVM.com and WTVM News Leader 9, Columbus, GA | KIA Subcontractors Dispute Payment

Thanks again for the informative post....
I wonder why ATLCOL has not called this another bogus claim?
He must have been uptown again..

[westga]

nice job.
as for high cost of living in C-town?
its not so bad.
except that local homebuilders havent learned
that every owner, especially the up and coming generations,
doesnt have to have a little 1/4 acre.
Also without real competition from merchant builders
ie centex, thornton homes, and some control over
land prices, lots of newer homes are OVer priced
not to mention some recent public facilities such as TAJ MAHAL I the library; and TAJ II the school admin building.
The two of these together cost an estimated $66 million not including land. Just a little obscene to the taxpayer.
The architects that got the work have much of the school board membership by the balls.

[Columbus1984]

A little more factual information on the growth of Fort Benning in Columbus

Construction Booming at Fort Benning

McGraw Village Units Near Completion

There’s been a lot of talk about how Fort Benning will change after the Infantry and Armor centers merge into what the Army is calling the Maneuver Center of Excellence, but a drive around post in its current state reveals that a metamorphosis is already well under way.

The entire housing inventory is either being rebuilt or refurbished. A brand new post exchange mall opened in November. An athletics facility opened last July. Roads are being widened. Barracks are being built. And construction continues on the facilities the post will need to house the new Armor School and Center.

Off post, portions of the $100 million National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center at Patriot Park are open for business. The museum galleries won’t open until June, but visitors can now see a movie in the 300-seat IMAX theater, eat at the Fife and Drum restaurant and shop at the Soldier Store.

Housing boom

In a $858 million deal, Clark Pinnacle, a firm based in Bethesda, Md., was chosen to build and manage the entire post housing inventory. Under the agreement, Clark Pinnacle will spend the next 10 years either building new homes or restoring old ones and, the four decades after that, managing the facilities.

New construction in McGraw Village on post is 80 percent complete with the final 120 houses under construction, said Phil Cowley, Clark’s project manager. Once complete in early 2010, the entire neighborhood will have 591 houses and associated neighborhood amenities such as a stand-alone Starbucks, a Day Spa, basketball courts and a swimming pool. The Starbucks and Day Spa will be completed in May with a grand opening planned later in the summer.

The average McGraw home size is 1,800-square-feet. Each home boasts a fenced-in yard and total electric utilities. Cowley added that the project recently received the “2009 ENERGY STAR Leadership in Housing Award” for its efforts to build more energy-efficient houses. To date, the Fort Benning Housing Project has qualified the most Energy Star homes in Georgia, Cowley said.

In total Clark will have cleared away 752 McGraw homes to make way for the new development. Of the completed houses in McGraw, which is off Custer Road across from McBride Elementary School, about 98 percent are occupied, said Cowley, a former 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment officer. The project also has new construction activities in Patton Village and Upatoi Village. In total, McGraw, Patton and Upatoi villages will have more than 1,362 new units.

Under the Military Housing Privatization Initiative, enacted in 1996 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, the Department of Defense can work with the private sector to revitalize military family housing. The advantages of privatized post housing are many, Cowley said.

“The speed at which we execute is faster, the quality is higher and people are not forced to live on base,” he said.

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer