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Update-The Central City Commons project moving forward Downtown Macon with a 165-hotel room major brand boutique hotel, 232 residential units, 7 stories /500 space parking deck.
$130 million project, expanded Business Improvement District to boost downtown; Thornton and the other Central City Commons developers expect to break ground later this year on an estimated $130 million project that includes a 230-unit apartment building at Second and Plum streets, a parking garage, a new Poplar Street hotel and a renovated Newman Building.
I think these sprinkings of money are a good thing because most towns like this need some sort of city center/base, but the future in macon is certainly not downtown but improving the residential areas throughout the city. And I'm not saying all of them can be improved/saved, but there is opportunity for at least some improvement here.
I've been following the home prices in warner robins and they have gone up up and up. Homes that sold for 200k in 2021 are selling for 290k just two years later. (23% annual appreciation over that short time)
So essentially one of the opportunities for macon to improve is a lot of the people right now working at RAFB feel priced out of warner robins real estate(or at least the house they prefer in wr), and since macon real estate is much less expensive there are plenty of properties in the southern part of bibb county that are not far from the base on 247 that could be attractive. Because what costs 300k in warner robins now doesn't cost nearly that much in macon.
The reality is outside of historic savannah, no non-atlanta cities/towns in georgia have a 'thriving' downtown or even thriving inner ring neighborhoods attached to what is considered downtown. It's just not in the cards and never was.
But that doesn't mean there aren't opportunities for macon to get better.
$130 million project, expanded Business Improvement District to boost downtown; Thornton and the other Central City Commons developers expect to break ground later this year on an estimated $130 million project that includes a 230-unit apartment building at Second and Plum streets, a parking garage, a new Poplar Street hotel and a renovated Newman Building.
I do like that the hotel and a few other things were scaled back. The original proposal seemed a bit over the top. You never want to expand capacity too quickly. This is still a big step, but a manageable one and I look forward to it. Downtown is what gives Macon its strength.
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