City Continues with Outlet Mall Plans
The City of Woodstock approved The Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta in mid-December to move forward, but they've hit a bump in the road costing $700,000.
The City of Woodstock has a long road ahead of them before they could be seeing a 365,000-square-foot mall on the north side of Main Street. Right now, they are concentrating on altering that road instead of worrying about a competing outlet mall only 10 miles across town or even the possibility of not having funding to complete existing outlined projects. Both Woodstock and Ridgewalk parkways that run perpendicular to each other are set to be relocated, but the focus at the moment is on $700,000 for Ridgewalk Parkway. The Ridgewalk project is $2.77 million, with $2.7 million coming from the current SPLOST for road infrastructure projects, said Billy Peppers, director of Economic Development. Even if the outlet mall isn’t built, the road …
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Rocky Salet
7:57 am on Thursday, January 5, 2012
Well, progress is going to come, the local independent small businesses will lose some ground and some will have to shut down their doors. I hope there is similar incentives in place for them to remain competitive, after all, a larger percentage of their tax dollars stay in Cherokee county (not to mention their personal property tax and consumption tax from living here). Big box stores profits go… more ›