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Marshall square should start soon. Augusta mall has touch every new lifestyle center in the metro area. "What's happening is perhaps the Columbia County portion of the metropolitan market is having to grow a little more to support something like this," Mr. Browning said. 57.5 acres, which will include a hotel, offices, restaurants, retail shops and living spaces. Great news for evans. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/010208/met_178881.shtml

Picture of downtown with some projects included. Downtown is supposed to expand this year. See full-size image. chronicle.augusta.com/.../met_148710.shtml

The buzz for 2008 is major growth. Alot of it downtown Development along the riverfront is the plan for 2008. There's a plan for new shops, the Trade, Exhibit and Events Center, the baseball complex, and a public park all along the river. 1st Annual Ball Drop in Downtown Augusta for New Years A 15 foot ball will drop 120 feet at the stroke of midnight on 11th street in the heart of downtown Augusta. They say they hope to start a tradition. And do it every year. http://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/12950707.html City drops ball for 2007 Augusta is growing. It's growing with the rest of the big cities. I think we need to do this," he said. "It's nice, it's nice." http://www.nbcaugusta.com/news/local/12949727.html

More info on the kroc center in harrisburg. This area will be a major downtown corridor in the future. I think in the next 5 years. Augusta will pass south carolina cities. And alot of other cities in the southeast. Kroc center estimated up to 110 million It will have four facilities. One stop center Recreation center Arts & Education/Worship center Enterprise park Joan Kroc in January 2004 gave $1.5 billion Only 10 cities in the south have been approved for funding. Some who are close Memphis, Charlotte, Greenville, Louisville, Atlanta. Construction should start this year or 09 http://217.196.234.204/uss/www_uss.nsf/vw-...ED?openDocument

North Augusta leaders aim to control growth Avoiding the congestion that came with growth in Columbia and Richmond counties will be one of the obstacles North Augusta city leaders will have to overcome. Interstate 520 extension completed by 2009, 2010 Developers have 8,000 homes, plus 2 million square feet of retail space in the planning stages four-story, $20 million municipal center 2009. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/122907/met_178571.shtml

762 area code was introduce to GA in 2006. 762 is a overlay for the 706 region. I was just wondering have they started to give it out in large numbers yet. In cities like augusta, athens, and columbus. I can see why 706 ran out. It covers north ga, columbus & augusta

Does anybody know somebody with a 762 area code. 706 area code residents Athens, Augusta, Columbus, Cornelia, Dalton, LaGrange, Rome and Toccoa Alot of people are moving to georgia. I expect the state to add another area code in the near future.

North Augusta Growth expect to see lots of businesses along I-20 and 520 palmetto Pkwy. Exit 5 Starting in early 2008 up to 875 housing units and upscale shops. some of the dirt neat Exit 1 and I-20 will be developed, but there are still no official plans. "We're not a bedroom community of Augusta anymore. We have our town identity," http://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/12897341.html

More information on St.Sebastian downtown Sebastian Way will be longer, Greene Street will be wider, and Riverwatch Parkway will have new on and off ramps. The project will begin January 2008. It's expected to take about 2 years.

Medical College of GA Expansion Friday that the federal agency had given the housing authority permission to sell the 15-acre housing development to MCG for $6.89 million the housing authority also has plans to build $45 million in smaller, mixed-income developments. They are looking at a couple of sites. The move is "a bold step to begin to deinstitutionalize poverty in this city, to no longer isolate Augusta's poor from the mainstream of Augusta's population," Mr. Young said. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/122207/met_177800.shtml Augusta is slowly but surely revitalizing old housing near downtown and east augusta.

Construction on 520 palmetto pkwy is going to hit high gear this month. when the parkway is completed it should provide easy fast access to I-20 through North Augusta and ease the high trucking traffic on U.S. Highway 25. done by July 31, 2009. six miles of new interstate, four interchanges and 13 new bridges. The first picture looks pretty wide i wonder how many lanes.

Tying some of the projects end with the improvements to third level of the canal will only help with attracting residents. Richmond county population will start to increase at a faster pace in the next few years.

Thats alot of more money coming to downtown in the next 2 years. 400,000 for the condos, and 140,000 to probably 200,000 for the enclave and whites building. I wonder what richmond county median income will be by 2010. Augusta is becoming more and more progressive every day.

St. sebastian downtown. The plan is to extend St.Sebastian way across the Augusta canal down to Reynolds Street. It also calls for an extension to Greene Street to Riverwatch Parkway. The stretch next to Enterprise Mill would become five lanes and lead to a new road and bridge connecting to Riverwatch. 2 years to complete. The cost is 45 million http://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/12574441.html

It has already been established by charts that augusta is number 2 in the state. Even with savannah's tourism, military, and their economy. Augusta is third in ga in tourism, and has the communication center of the u.s. in ft. gordon. Savannah is third in ga right behind augusta as far as economic importance in the state. Also i doubt that savannah has any less reliance on atlanta than augusta does. When the olympics came to atlanta, augusta didn't recieve any benefit. They both are isolated away from atlanta unlike macon, and columbus who tend to lend on atlanta more. If you add jasper & beaufort counties to savannah, im sure ppl from every second tier city would say how they could add counties to their msa or csa to.

When is mullins crossing 2 supposed to start constrution in 2008?

Here is the 10 fastest growing states. Georgia is number 4 People Statistics > Population > Percent change, 2000-2005 #1 Nevada: 20.8% #2 Arizona: 15.8% #3 Florida: 11.3% #4 Georgia: 10.8% #5 Utah: 10.6% #6 Idaho: 10.4% #7 Texas: 9.6% #8 Colorado: 8.4% #9 North Carolina: 7.9% #10 Delaware: 7.6%

yeah columbus is third in jobs 137, 962 columbus msa http://censtats.census.gov/cgi-bin/msanaic/msasect.pl csa auburn-opeklika http://censtats.census.gov/cgi-bin/msanaic/msasect.pl

From 2005 the number of total establishments in major industry and number of employees. MSA(all) and CSA(not atl and aug) Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marretta 130,133 (#of employees 2,128,408) Augusta-Richmond county 10,581 (179,573) Savannah CSA 8,986 (136,482) Savannah 8,130 (125,283) Hinesville-Ft. Stewart 856 (11,199) Columbus CSA 8,162 (137,962) Columbus, GA-AL 5,890 (99,647 ) Auburn-Opelika 2,272 (38,315) Macon CSA 8,130 (126,474) Macon 5,407(86,490) Warner Robins 2,213 (34,345) Ft. valley 510 (5,639)

This is the number of building permits from 2006 and the construction cost. census.gov Fulton 9,658 - 2,121,438,002 Chatham 2,744 - 441,527,656 Richmond 815 - 113,683,900 Muscogee 755 - 103,987,807 Bibb 636 - 78,670,168 suburbs Gwinnett(atl) 7,929 - 1,015,349,204 Dekalb(atl) 2,920 - 714,848,003 Houston(mcn) 1,711 - 247,791,570 Columbia(aug) 1,386 - 247,662,871 Aiken(aug) 1,144 - 173,007,080 (edgefieldpart) 141- 22,143, 430 Lee(col) 1,010 - 200,653, 747 Effingham(sav) 951 - 125, 986,747 Liberty(sav) 262 - 35,757,088 Jones(mcn) 238 - 42,624,365 Russell(col) 82 - 8,179,000

augusta beat savannah for number 2 in ga. share of state augusta 3.9% and savannah 3.8% Total in millions aug 11,087 sav 10,921. Thats pretty good, i thought the ports and tourist might win out.

Most populated counties for GA's largest cities.(sc for augusta) (columbus for ala). Atlanta is the only city with 700,000 plus in 3 counties. Augusta is the only 2nd tier city with 100,000 in 3 counties. Atlanta has a huge lead on everybody and augusta's lead is comfortable to. ATL Fulton county 960,009 http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFP...&_industry= SAV Chatham County, 241,411 http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFP...&_industry= AUG Richmond county 194,398 http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/13/13245.html COLU Muscogee County 188,660 http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFP...&_industry= MAC Bibb county 154,903 http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFP...&_industry= Suburbs Gwinnett(atl) 757,104 Dekalb(atl) 723,602 Aiken (Aug) 151,800 Houston(macon)127,530 Lee County(columbus) 125,781 Columbia(aug)106,887 Liberty(sav) 62, 571 Russell(colu) 50, 085 Effingham(sav) 48, 954 Jones(mcn) 26, 973

The 10th Street project from Broad to Ellis Street is now under construction The project will completely revamp one half of 10th Street, making it more inviting for visitors. It will feature new antique-style street lamps, newly poured sidewalks and five new trees. The intersection will also feature a kiosk with a map of downtown and an explanation of the streetscape concept. Construction should be done in 1 to 3 months

Macon metro on some sites have diffrent counties, i guess thats why the numbers change google had 15 counties for macon Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Crawford, Dodge, Houston, Jasper, Jones , Laurens, Monroe, Peach, Pulaski, Twiggs, Wilkinson yahoo had 18 counties for macon including dooly, wilcox, and i can't believe washington county who tags are in augusta everyday. But Atlanta forming a CSA with columbus and macon before augusta and columbia form one. I don't know it will be close Augusta airport to columbia airport 62 miles Macon airport to atlanta 80 miles Columbus airport to atlanta 83 miles Atlanta is bigger but augusta and columbia are 18 miles closer Gracewood, ga is its own city in south richmond why idk. In the 2010 census 12 to 15,000 ppl will be missing from augusta population more than likely. Tobacco rd/ hephzibah is the fastest growing part of richmond county, their are plans to build another middle school in the cross creek area very soon. Hephzibah just added 2 elementary schools 4 miles apart this yr http://georgia.hometownlocator.com/GA/Richmond/Gracewood.cfm

Top Ga metros 1. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA MSA 5,138,223 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA 5,478,667 2. Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC MSA 523,249 3. Savannah, GA MSA 320,013 Savannah-Hinesville-Fort Stewart, GA CSA 394,036 4. Columbus, GA-AL MSA 288,847 Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL CSA 437,222 5. Macon, GA MSA 229,326 Macon-Warner Robins-Fort Valley, GA CSA 476,954 Augusta is the only large city in ga who doesn't have a CSA to boost its population. Augusta should form a CSA with columbia since their only 45 mins apart. It could be called Augusta-Columbia-Newberry, GA- SC CSA 1,264,782