DaGABoyStinger

As far as I know, and according to what I read in the AUG Chronicle this past week, they are building a new kind of 80 bed, Rehab Hospital, that will specialize in more intense kinds of therepy, but this is close to 15th st. next door to Eckards around Chafee Ave. The site will be Three acres and I believe will be about 4 or 5 stories high, I have to reread that article to be totally exact on the details. But that's the only development that I know of going on on Walton Way.

Yeah, I remember the Port Royal quite well actually. But I remember only going there during a christmas time field trip when we decorated our own christmas cookies with "Mrs. Claus". I don't remember it being as "upscale" but thinking back on it I supposed it was, there was nice expensive looking stuff in there.

Here's one pic I found.

No, the crazy thing about this is that apparently, Dillards, wants to keep both stores even though they're like a mile apart. They actually think Augusta can "sustain" them ALL (yeah right), so we'll have like THREE Dillards all within 5 miles or so of each other. But what about stores like Parisian, that has stores in Metro ATL and in Macon. Well, let me hush about that, cause they'll probably be the next ones to make an announcement. There's a good news video on this shopping center along with pictures on all Augusta's News stations. WRDW NEWS 12, WAGT NEWS 26, WJBF NEWS 6. Just look for the new shopping center stories, they'll probably be real easy to find for at least a couple of days or weeks even. I want to try to actually post some of them here if I can ever find any of the developer's websites. But this really is gonna be big for AUG, I guess we're finally getting another "mall", but I still feel bad about Regency Mall though, something needs to be there so bad. The central city is still stugglin'. Oh and another story one might find interesting on the news sites is "The Restaurant chain" story, which mentions AUG's First Starbucks (Yes, An actual Starbucks in Augusta, who would of thought), and a possible Ruby Tuesday in South Augusta, yay for the Southside, Finally. OH and the name of this new center is going to be deemed: Villages at Riverwatch

Well, from just reading the Augusta Chronicle, three major developers have just announced that they will be developing an 800,000 square foot, open-air, up-scale "Lifestyle Center" On Riverwatch PKWY near I-20 (behind Comcast), which will plan to include 91-100 fashion related stores (hopefully another Old Navy) and yes ANOTHER 18 screen movie theater, like AUG doesn't already have enough with our 4 other large movie theaters. Large Anchor stores such as Dillards and Belk (making an Augusta comeback) have also been announced, as well as including some restaurants. The proposed groundbreaking will be around March 2006, with completion around Fall 2007. Trivial Fact: One of the developers of this project, Philipps Stevens, is best credited for the redevelopment of Phipp's Plaza in ATL.

Well, do keep in mind that according to these census figures, Hephzibah city and Blythe City are not included in that Augusta-Richmond county figure. They are listed seperate, but this still is a surprising rate of decline for this population, but unfortunately more than likely. And You said it TopHer1 ( at Columbia County)