Augusta, GA
New apartments to open soon in downtown Augusta area
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – As Augusta continues to grow, the demand for new apartments and lofts in the downtown area is high.
Some of the new buildings are taking shape in historical areas like Harrisburg.
Every time you pass by the public library on James Brown Boulevard, you’re usually passing by buildings that have been an empty shadow of the past for years, but it is actually the start of a new wave of apartments coming to downtown Augusta.
The “Union Lofts Augusta” is opening up in the next month.
It’s 21 units opening up off of James Brown Boulevard and Telfair Street that all have a different story to tell. Every room looks different from the next but brings the same feel to living downtown.
“This is such a cool feature that you have the original brickwork from over 100 years ago that’s still sitting here and is a part of your bedroom,” said Jacob McClure, Executive Director of Door Post Management. “I, myself, live downtown. My wife and two daughters live on Broad Street, in a 100-year-old home and we love the idea of being able to repurpose these places instead of seeing something bad happen to them.”
They’re set to open at the beginning of March. Rent is priced between $1,500 and $2,000 a month for one to two bedrooms.
Despite being more than Augusta-Richmond County’s average at $1,241, there’s a packed waiting list.
It’s part of a new wave of 450 apartment units that are in progress around downtown, some coming this year.
The apartments on Greene Street are expected to open up in April, work continues at the Lamar building, and more than 300 units are being worked on at King Mill.
Margaret Woodard, Executive Director of the Downtown Development Authority, says: “These are market-rate apartments, the ones that are coming out of the ground, but that is going to bring demand for workforce housing and it’ll just bring more options to the table.”
And they don’t expect the growth to slow down.
“We’ve just got so many great things going on downtown that will serve as a catalyst for other things to come as well,” said Woodard.
The Downtown Development Authority also reports the demand to live downtown stems from the growth in business.
They say 56 businesses opened in the Broad Street area last year, which they say is a 10% increase from 2022.
Since 2021, they say about 1,200 apartments have been added to downtown Augusta.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Democratic candidate for Georgia governor Olu Brown visited Augusta on Friday evening, stopping near the Sand Hills Community Center as early voting continues.
Brown is one of six candidates in the Democratic primary.
Campaign priorities
Brown said his vision as governor would focus on three main areas.
“One, it’s affordability around health care and making sure we expand Medicaid and expand Peach Care and make sure we continue to make our rural health care systems healthy and vital,” Brown said. “Number two, we’ve got to address education in all of Georgia, making sure every kid in Georgia gets an excellent education, and we’re paying our teachers more. And number 3, we’re protecting the rights of all women. Folks in the Gold Dome shouldn’t be making decisions about their bodies or the choices that they make.”
Brown is running against Amanda Duffy, Derrick Jackson, Geoff Duncan, Jason Esteves, Keisha Lance Bottoms and Mike Thurmond.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – An Augusta Prep student was arrested on a charge of terroristic threats over a picture of a LEGO gun he posted on social media.
It happened Wednesday, according to an incident report from the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office.
Eric Hedinger, the principal of Augusta Preparatory Day School, told deputies a student had uploaded a picture to Snapchat of a “pistol” with the caption “shooting up the school so I don`t have to take the stats exam tomorrow. Don`t come yall!”
The principal said he spoke to the student and his father about the photo.
The principal also provided deputies with the student’s address in Grovetown.
A deputy went there and was told by the student that the “pistol” was a LEGO set that he had built.
He also said the comment he made was supposed to be a joke because he was not looking forward to taking his Advanced Placement statistics test this week.
The student showed the deputy the box that the LEGO set came in, and how the set was already disassembled.
The deputy also looked in the boy’s room to make sure he was not in possession of any weapons.
The mother advised that there was one firearm in the residence but it was locked up.
The deputy contacted Judge Leslie Morgan and she issued a warrant for terroristic threats.
The student, age 18, was taken into custody and transported to the Columbia County Detention Center.
News 12 is not reporting his name or publishing his photo since the LEGO gun could not have actually harmed anyone.
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