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The Northwest Georgia Housing Authority plans to submit another request for a Choice Neighborhood planning grant of up to $1.3 million dollars. If the planning grant is awarded, it would put the housing authority in line for a potential implementation grant of upwards of $30 million. The authority submitted an application in 2016 but there was a problem with the application and Camiros, the Chicago- based consulting firm that wrote last year’s grant, is rewriting the 2017 application at no additional cost to the authority. Camiros was paid $8,000 for the 2016 application. NWGHA Executive Director Sandra Hudson said the agency is seeking to redevelop the Maple Street- East 12th Street community in East Rome with the funds. As part of the planning grant , the authority had to choose a small project to undertake as an example of the type of work that could be accomplished to completely turn around a community, and has chosen to do a streetscape project along East 12th. Last year,...

Six years ago, Mike Brown and Casey Lynch stood on Downtown Boise ’s 8th Street and wondered: Why don’t more people live here? Downtown seemed to have everything that a growing percentage of Americans wanted in a place to live. “I mean, there’s all kinds of jobs. There’s a million coffee shops and hair salons and restaurants, and there’s an active street life ,” says Brown, who founded the Los Angeles- based development company LocalConstruct with Lynch in 2008. Casey Lynch, left, and Mike Brown have made their mark in Boise. Provided by LocalConstruct But in 2011, fewer than 4,000 people lived in Downtown’s scattered apartment and condominium buildings and houses. On a typical weekday afternoon , most Downtown workers got in their cars and put the city in the rearview mirror. Brown and Lynch saw an opportunity. They thought Boiseans would trade ample floor space and vaulted ceilings in the suburbs for smaller, high- end Downtown apartments that offered amenities like gyms, a do...