Regency Mall revival: Apartments, supermarket, retail planned

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Plans had been introduced Tuesday morning for a significant redevelopment of the positioning of the partially demolished Regency Mall.

There could be housing for as much as 2,000 residents, plus a grocery retailer, a number of eating places, a health heart, a performing arts heart, an “educational facility,” inexperienced house and shops at what’s being known as Cardinal City Sq..

Main the announcement about Cardinal City Sq. was Steven Kendrick, a former Richmond County tax commissioner who’s operating for mayor. He resigned the tax commissioner put up after he introduced his candidacy for mayor. He’s additionally a board member of the Augusta Financial Growth Authority.

Kendrick stated the housing is essential to the companies that can on the positioning and within the space, as a result of the residents would be the main prospects who will infuse the world with a brand new life.

The house owners are those who deliberate this challenge, Kendrick stated in saying the plans on the web site of the mall at Gordon Freeway and Deans Bridge Highway.

The 50-acre web site has been unused for 20 years for the reason that mall closed. However Augusta financial improvement officers have been saying for a few years that one thing massive is in retailer for the situation.

The inside of the mall has been gutted for years and sealed up as a result of folks had been sneaking into it. And several other months in the past, elements of the mall had been demolished, however that work appeared to cease.

The brand new challenge might clarify why the work stopped.

That’s as a result of the brand new challenge will make the most of a part of the remaining mall construction. The entire new Cardinal City Sq. apart from some eating places and the flats can be inside the prevailing mall construction.

The eating places and flats can be constructed across the remaining mall constructing.

“Lastly, assistance is on the best way for south Augusta,” an space that’s lengthy been ignored, Kendrick stated on the occasion that was partially an unveiling of plans and partially a marketing campaign speech.

“We anticipate this to be the catalyst” for the hall between Fort Gordon and downtown Augusta, Kendrick stated.

Kendrick couldn’t give a timetable for the challenge however stated, “I hope and positively most of this group hopes it is going to be quickly.”

The developer has not requested any incentives up to now, stated Kendrick, who known as the challenge a personal funding.

Kendrick acknowledged that there could also be skepticism in regards to the grand plans.

“However this chance of various in that precise plans have been submitted to Augusta Planning and Growth for approval of this transformational challenge,” he stated

“This could possibly be an actual game-changer for all of Augusta,” he stated.

Making a marketing campaign pitch, Kendrick stated that if elected mayor, he’ll do every thing he can to make the plans come true.

However, he stated, “the actual winners right here stand to be the residents of Augusta.”

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