Embracing the vision Augusta, GA (hotels, travel, dining)

[MayorOfMacon2019]

Thanks Disgusta, I really see no need to flood your thread so that it stays on the front page, if people see a topic worth discussion they'll discuss it no need in keep repeating the same facts over, just the thread going. You have just about the same amount of posts I have and i'm going on a full year here and you've only been here how long? Also look at how many people are reading what you've got to say, its doesnt match up. Just hang it up for awhile come back in two months and start over wiht a totally different approach.

[johndoeboy]

Mayor of macon you started macon the best thread on june 6,2007. Your thread only has 479 views wow. My thread started jan 17, 2008 and already has 246 views. Maybe you need to start a different approach since nobody wants to read yours. Obviously more people click the link when the see augusta than a thread about macon. And why are you saying thanks to a person who said you post propanganda.

Augusta is booming with growth! Everybody come see for yourself

[MayorOfMacon2019]

Lol, you dont want to compare statistics get a little more hair, and then we'll talk.

[johndoeboy]

Augusta Economic Development - Richmond County Development Authority

In 2007, Augusta was named by BizJournals.com as “The Most Affordable Place in the United States To Own A Home”. Housing in Augusta is approximately 52% of the national average. Overall, the cost of living is about 82% of the national average. This translates in to overall lower operating costs for companies, making Augusta even more attractive for new locations.

Also in 2007, Southern Business & Development magazine named Augusta as one of the “Top Ten Places in the South With Plenty of Talented Labor.” The 1800-acre Augusta Corporate Park was also named by the publication as one of the “Top Ten SuperSites in the South” in 2007.

[johndoeboy]

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[dudleydog]

I grew up in Augusta. I'ts a beautiful city to raise a family in and it's very low key. I moved to Atlanta about 11 years ago and now reside in Suwanee,GA! I love it here!

Augusta will always lack good entertainment, culture, and other baisic infa-structure that keeps people there. It's a transient town. People come for MCG then they are gone and Visit for the Masters and then they are gone. Look at Riverwalk for example it was a great addition to downtown and helped revitalize the area, but after the new wore off it almost bombed shops closed & sold off for condo's and I think the only reason it's stable is because of the nightclubs that give the younger crowd something to do in an otherwise boring city. And let's face it going out in Augusta even gets boring. There are only so many places to go and when you get there it's always the same people!

I don't mean to slam the place but that's what it wound up sounding like. This just reminds me of all the reasons I left Augusta in the first place. When I get 40-50 I may move back when I have kids and put them in a good school system there and take it easy. Augusta will always be my home.

[johndoeboy]

You are right augusta does have a great nightlife for a city its size. But i can tell you haven't been to augusta in a long time. Or heard about all the construction going on or that is planned for downtown. The riveralk will have 2 10 story condos on one side of it. The other side on the riverwalk will have a multi-functional baseball stadium on the property. Yeah and alot more construction has taken place since you left 11 years ago. I agree that its a beautiful city to raise a family in. Come back to augusta this year and trust me you will be shock. At the amount of construction going on especially downtown. There is a library, tee center, 2 10 story condos, 2 or 3 hilton hotels, judicial center, and many other projects happening now. All in downtown augusta. Augusta is becoming a major city. Trust me when you visit you won't recongnized it.

Next time you visit downtown augusta. The watermark project on the savannah river will be going up in 2008 with 3 hilton hotels beside it.

[johndoeboy]

The new TEE center downtown is another big project. Starting in downtown augusta in 2008.


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[johndoeboy]

This is from splost 2006. Alot of these projects have already started construction
$486 million was approved by voters


Judicial Center
Estimated Cost: $40 million
Location: Ninth Street between Walton Way and Fenwick Street
What is it?: A proposed $65 million judicial complex


Augusta Mini Theater
Estimated Cost: $2.5 million
Location: 2546 Deans Bridge Road
What is it?: A community arts school


Safe Homes of Augusta
Estimated Cost: $1 million
Location: Undisclosed
What is it?: A shelter for victims of domestic violence


Daniel Field renovations
Estimated Cost: $1 million
Location: Wrightsboro Road and Highland Avenue
What is it?: Renovation of the terminal hangar


Lucy C. Laney High Stadium
Estimated Cost: $3 million
Location: Across the street from Lucy C. Laney High School on Laney Walker Boulevard.
What is it?: Infrastructure costs required now for the future expansion of the Richmond County school system's planned 6,000-seat stadium to 12,000-plus seats.


New Fire Stations
Estimated Cost: $4 million
Location: 3500 block Walton Way Extension and 2600 Washington Road
What is it?: Replace station Nos. 9 and 10 because of age and condition.


Wilkinson Gardens Area Roadway and Drainage
Estimated Cost: $3.6 million
Location: Tubman Home Road to Gordon Highway
What is it?: Roadway and drainage improvements in the subdivision area. The project also will install curb and gutter and sidewalk along selected streets, if feasible


Travis-Plantation Road Upgrades
Estimated Cost: $4.5 million
Location: An area just north of Travis Road south to Plantation Road and east from Peach Orchard Road west to Windsor Spring Road.
What is it?: A project to address drainage and flooding problems in the area by adding underground storm drain systems where feasible and constructing curb, gutter and sidewalks on various streets between Travis Road, Plantation and Windsor Spring roads.


Windsor Spring Road
Estimated Cost: $12.09 million
Location: Willis Foreman Road to Highway 88 in Hephzibah
What is it?: To purchase the right of way needed to widen the road from two lanes to four lanes with a center median.


Imperial Theatre Renovation & Restoration
Estimated Cost: $2.5 million
Location: 745 Broad St.
What is it?: Part of a $9.8 million renovation and restoration of the theater. The money would be used to install restrooms in the basement; overhaul air conditioning and heating systems; make facade improvements; and complete seating rehabilitation in the upper levels of the theater.


Lake Olmstead Park
Estimated Cost: $1,586,666
Location: Broad Street at Milledge Road
What is it?: The continuation of a $3.6 million park improvement plan that is about 30 percent complete. Phase 5 money would complete about 45 percent of the rest of the improvements, including additional parking behind the barbecue pit, enhanced playgrounds, new boat docks and gazebos, and more restroom facilities.


Blythe Park
Estimated Cost: $1,429,866
Location: Highway 88 and Bath-Edie Road
What is it?: Blythe Park opened in 1998 with a community center and playground. Phase 5 tax money would complete the $3 million facility by adding athletic fields, a walking track and multipurpose courts.


McBean Park
Estimated Cost: $1.4 million
Location: 1155 Hephzibah-McBean Road
What is it?: McBean Park opened in 2002 in the southeast corner of Richmond County near the Burke County line. The total cost when completed will be $4.2 million. Phase 5 tax money would add athletic facilities and additions to the walking trail.


Jolles Avenue area street and drainage improvements
Estimated Cost: $1.2 million
Location: South of Bungalow Road between Richmond Hill Road and Peach Orchard Road
What is it?: Road and drainage improvements, including curbs, gutters and sidewalks where feasible.


New Headquarters Library
Estimated Cost: $12.65 million
Location: Northeast corner of Telfair and Ninth streets at the site of the former Hollingsworth Candy Co. and U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
What is it?: A new $22 million 100,000- to 110,000-square-foot library to be paid for with $4.37 million from Phase 4 sales tax money, Phase 5 money, grants and private funds


Augusta Museum of History
Estimated Cost: $1.25 million
Location: 1840 Broad St.
What is it?: Includes restoration of Ezekiel Harris House


Marks Church Road Improvements
Estimated Cost: $2.3 million
Location: Marks Church Road from Wrightsboro Road to Wheeler Road, including bridge replacement
What is it?: A project to widen the road to three lanes, replace the existing bridge, and construct a curb, gutter and sidewalks

[johndoeboy]

Apple Valley Park
Estimated Cost: $981,966
Location: 1725 Marvin Griffin Road
What is it?: Land has been bought and cleared for the $1.1 million park. Phase 5 money would complete 90 percent of the park with a community center, a walking track, athletics facilities, a playground and parking.

Augusta Aquatics Center
Estimated Cost: $1,362,666
Location: 3131 Damascus Road
What is it?: Augusta's $5.5 million indoor aquatics center opened in 1999. Phase 5 money would enlarge the center to increase seating and deck space.

Lake Olmstead Stadium
Estimated Cost: $1,120,000
Location: #3 Milledge Road
What is it?: A project to add sky boxes and corporate areas, improve picnic areas, do overall renovations and improve parking at the facility, which has had no improvements since it was built in 1995.

Butler Creek Channel Improvements
Estimated Cost: $8 million
Location: Butler Creek
What is it?: Channel improvements and a multi-purpose trail along the creek.
Virginia Subdivision
Estimated Cost: $2.4 million
Location: Old Louisville Road to Georgia 56 and south of Lumpkin Road to Bobby Jones Expressway
What is it?: Road and drainage improvements in the subdivision, which floods because the ditches are shallow or nonexistent.

Belair Hills Estates
Estimated Cost: $2.2 million
Location: Subdivision west of Jimmy Dyess Parkway between Belair and Powell roads
What is it?: A road, drainage, water and sewer construction project for the subdivision.

Glenn Hills Drive Improvements
Estimated Cost: $2.9 million
Location: Glenn Hills Drive from Barton Chapel Road to Glenn Hills Middle School
What is it?: A project to widen 1.2 miles to three lanes and add curbs, gutters and sidewalks on both sides.

Peach Orchard Road Sidewalk
Estimated Cost: $1 million
Location: Peach Orchard Road from Tobacco Road to Balfour Street
What is it?: A project to build sidewalks on one side of the road.


Jail Pods
Estimated Cost: $8.82 million
Location: Phinizy Road
What is it?: Two new jail pods, including construction and equipment.


Diamond Lakes Regional Park
Estimated Cost: $10,722,690
Location: 4756 Windsor Spring Road, about a mile south of Tobacco Road.
What is it?: Augusta's only truly regional park, whose $27 million master plan is yet to be completed on the 300-acre site. The park already has two five-field sports complexes, and work is being done on the joint community center and library. Phase 5 money will pay for more work on the community center, a tennis complex and a park entrance of Willis Foreman Road.


Goshen Area Park
Estimated Cost: $1.87 million
Location: To be decided
What is it?: A new park to be constructed in southeast Richmond County because of the lack of adequate park facilities in that part of the county.


Wood Park
Estimated Cost: $933,333
Location: 1890 Highland Ave.
What is it?: Improvements to the current park, which has only a walking track and playground, would be construction of a community center with basketball facilities. It would not include an indoor pool that residents had said they wanted because there is not enough money allocated in this phase of the tax.


Downtown Traffic Signal And Street Light Updates
Estimated Cost: $7 million
Location: Reynolds Street to Telfair Street and 13th to 6th streets.
What is it?: Part of an $18.74 million downtown rehabilitation and streetscape project. The project was originally funded in Phase IV of the sales-tax program to replace and upgrade worn-out traffic signals, street lights and a conduit. Because of the impact that replacing the conduit would have on sidewalks, the project was expanded to replace instead of repair the sidewalks and incorporate other items that would include streetscape improvements.


D'Antignac-University Hospital
Estimated Cost: $900,000
Location: In front of University Hospital along D'Antignac Street
What is it?: A project to reduce flooding in areas such as the parking lot in front of the hospital that are subject to frequent flooding during storms.


Bedford Heights Drainage, Phase 1
Estimated Cost: $3 million
Location: Various streets in Bedford Heights subdivision
What is it?: The funds will be used to install storm drain pipes to close in ditches in the subdivision.


Rocky Creek Tributary Improvements #6
Estimated Cost: $2 million
Location: Ditch that starts at railroad culvert north of Gordon Highway and extends to Milledgeville Road.
What is it?: Improvements to the ditch in the immediate vicinity of Rocky Creek tributary at the railroad culvert north of Gordon Highway to Milledgeville Road primarily to address erosion along the banks of the ditch.


Washington Road Sidewalk Improvements
Estimated Cost: $1 million
Location: Washington Road from Berckmans Road to Patriots' Way and Lakeshore Loop.
What is it?: A project to build sidewalks on both sides of the road.


Performing Arts Center
Estimated Cost: $18 million
Location: Proposed riverwalk area
What is it?: A 2,000-seat and 400-seat theater complex. The sales tax money will pay a portion of the $61 million project, which includes a $10 million endowment.


Municipal Building Renovations
Estimated Cost: $4.25 million
Location: 530 Greene Street
What is it?: Renovations to upgrade the building


Lucy Craft Laney Museum Of Black History & Conference Center
Estimated Cost: $1 million
Location: 1116 Phillips St.
What is it?: Purchase and demolition of two adjacent properties and project design and construction of a new 10,000-square-foot building.