Land Agreement for Library Finalized
The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners also approved an agreement with the city of Woodstock to help with roads around a new outlet mall.
The meeting starts at 6 p.m. in Canton at the government complex.
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The Rundown
Commissioners to Tackle Outlet Malls
The City of Woodstock wants $700,000 for improvements to Ridgewalk Parkway near one of the proposed outlet malls.
On Tuesday, the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners is expected to review a $700,000 proposal from the city of Woodstock that involves an outlet mall. On Dec. 13, the Woodstock City Councilunanimously approved a request to move forward with The Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta. Similar centers across the country include brands such as Coach, Polo Ralph Lauren, Gap Outlet, Nike and Tommy Hilfiger. At the Dec. 20, commission meeting, Woodstock officials asked the county for $700,000 to assist them with improvements to Ridgewalk Parkway. They suggested using a portion of the $3 million in SPLOST funds earmarked for the Arnold Mill bypass. The money will likely not go to the bypass. Construction on The Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta is slated to begin …
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
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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The Rundown
Can Cherokee Support 2 Malls?
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The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners this afternoon is expected to review a proposal for a second outlet mall within 10 miles of another proposed shopping center. Construction on The Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta is slated to begin in the first half of the year, according to a Dec. 13 news release from Horizon Group Properties, the Michigan company that plans to develop the 365,000-square-foot mall at Ridgewalk Parkway and Interstate 575. But commissioners will talk about another shopping center at Highway 92 and Interstate 75 at today's 3 p.m. work session. Discussions actually started at the Dec. 20 Board of Commissioners meeting. Commissioner Karen Bosch, who lives along the Sixes Road corridor, told the Cherokee Ledger-News that she …
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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 ›