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A more than 250- unit apartment complex could be coming to the area between the Mall of Georgia and Coolray Field. The county’s Planning Commission is scheduled to consider a request by Pedcor Investments to recommend approval of a 256- unit apartment complex on 23.2 acres at the 1300 and 1400 blocks of Laurel Crossing Parkway next month. The site is east of Buford Drive and just south of Interstate 85 in the Mall of Georgia Overlay District . “The proposed development would add an important component to that encouraged mix of uses,” attorney Shane Lanham wrote in a letter to county officials. “Moreover, the proposed development is consistent with established development patterns and land uses in the area. “More intense commercial and office uses are dominant along major travel corridors with land uses transitioning to lower density developments moving off the roadway. The property is not located directly on Buford Drive, but on Laurel Crossing Parkway behind existing commercia...

JENKINSVILLE (AP) — For the better part of a decade, thousands of people showed up in this town on the shores of Lake Monticello and got to work on a project that was sure to change its fortunes. As a pair of nuclear reactors rose behind the gates of the V.C. Summer power plant , a town of fewer than 100 residents suddenly had a few thousand. Campsites and restaurants sprang up before long to meet the new need, banking on a few more years of construction work and decades of maintenance to come. The boom in this rural corner of Fairfield County coincided with rising hopes in Winnsboro, the county seat, which is 25 minutes east on winding backroads. South Carolina Electric & Gas was spending billions of dollars to build two of America's first new nuclear reactors since the 1980s, and county officials expected a property tax windfall — tens of millions of dollars every year for decades. They imagined new fortunes for one of the state's smallest counties, a place with a sh...

CLOSE Video and audio during the night of November 28, 2016. Angela Gosnell/News Sentinel Buy Photo Fire erupts on both side of Highway 441 near The Spur on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016. (Photo: Jessica Tezak, Special to the News Sentinel) Buy Photo The rain never came in time. Records released this week show authorities battling the deadly Sevier County wildfires looked to an expected downpour that came too late for salvation as crews struggled in a desperate tug-of-war with skyscraper-sized flames the night of Nov. 28, 2016. As the blaze approached the city limits, authorities knew the rain wouldn't arrive for another 12 hours. "Rain may not be in Gatlinburg until 4 a.m.," reads a 5:30 p.m. entry on notes kept by staff inside the incident command center . “Rain may not be in Gatlinburg until 4 a.m.” a 5:30 p.m. entry on notes kept by staff inside the incident command center Authorities didn't order a citywide evacuation for another three hours -- and had no effective wa...

Two Santa Ynez Valley projects and another in Gaviota affecting a wide area of the county are slated for public hearings Thursday before the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission . The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. in Room 17 of the Engineering Building, 123 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara. Commissioners are scheduled to hear a request to revise the development plan for the Golden Inn and Village in Santa Ynez, which is strongly opposed by neighbors, and a request to subdivide an existing 860- acre parcel north of Buellton into four parcels. The commission will also hear a request from the county to amend the overlay designation for the Tajiguas Landfill in Gaviota, determine the revised Tajiguas Resource and Recovery Project conforms to the comprehensive plan and adopt an addendum, revision letter and errata to the environmental impact report . The Golden Inn and Village hearing involves three applications filed in May and August to approve changes to the parking ...

For more than two years, city inspectors have documented unsafe and squalid conditions at a weekly hotel near uptown that houses low-income families with children, the disabled and others with nowhere else to go. Inspectors found rooms with no heat or air conditioning , piles of garbage, bedbugs and broken windows among other problems at the Airport Parkway Inn and Suites. Former tenants and a neighboring business complain the building on Wilkinson Boulevard is a magnet for drugs and crime. Now, Charlotte officials are taking steps that could lead to the demolition of the hotel, a rare move the city has not taken in at least seven years against a lodging establishment. The building is part of a virtually unnoticed housing sector in Charlotte, where hundreds of people suffering from addiction and mental illness or simply with few other options depend on weekly hotel rooms for permanent shelter. While tenants avoid sleeping on the streets, they often stay in decrepit and vermin-in...

KANE COUNTY, IL -- The fight continues over whether city officials in Batavia should move forward with the redevelopment of the historic Campana factory building . Those in support of the project contend the area needs housing for low-income workers and the 80- unit apartment complex would fill that need, the Kane County Chronicle reports . “By including affordable rental units in 80 percent of the Campana redevelopment project , approval of this project will help our communities meet the critical housing needs of our low-wage-earning, working citizens,” said Batavia resident Patti Lackman of the League. Those against the plan spoke up against whether apartments were the right fit for the historic building , the Daily Herald reports . "Why was a housing project ever proposed for the Campana building ? It's not suitable for human habitation," said Guy Prisco of Batavia. He cited the glass block windows and supports which would run down the center of the interior hallwa...

HARRISON, NY – A 421- unit luxury rental community is being built on the site of two former office buildings along the I-287 corridor once a mecca for businesses. The apartment building on Corporate Park Drive will have retail on the first floor and an in- building parking garage . Amenities will include a club room, fitness center, kid’s playroom, pet spa, bike lounge, craft room, co-working lounge and pool. The Carraway development is another example of an ongoing trend of repurposing vacant office buildings along Westchester’s Platinum Mile into residential and retail uses, including a fitness center on what was once the site of The Journal News building in Harrison and plans for a Wegmans supermarket on a former office building site on Corporate Park Drive . (For neighborhood news like this, sign up to get Patch’s daily newsletter, news alerts and updates.) Tuesday the developers, Toll Brothers Apartment Living , joined with officials from the Town of Harrison and Westcheste...

OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG-WECP) - A Crestview man who was shot twice after allegedly forcing his way into an Okaloosa Island apartment in July has been charged with burglary and battery by the Okaloosa County Sheriff ’s Office. Sheriff's Office officials say 27-year-old Eddie Ray Moore was taken into custody on August 23. According to investigators, Moore knocked on Jonathan Kirby’s door around 7 a.m. July 1st and then pushed his way into the apartment. Kirby says Moore hit him and the pair began struggling . From there, investigators say Kirby got his .380 caliber semi-automatic handgun from the kitchen. He told Investigators when Moore pulled out his own firearm, he fired at him multiple times, hitting Moore in the right hip and leg. Officials say Moore was able to walk to his car parked outside and drive himself to the Fort Walton Beach Medical Center Emergency Room . According to Kirby, two days prior to the incident, Moore had accused him of selling nar...

Published: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 @ 10:19 AM Updated: Thursday, August 24, 2017 @ 3:50 PM By: Rick McCrabb - Staff Writer UPDATE @ 3:15 p.m. 8/24/17: Ashley Phillips, a friend of Douglas Mescher, the Lebanon man killed in an industrial accident , described him as “a wonderful man with a heart of gold who truly lived life to the fullest.” UPDATE @ 3:45 p.m. 8/23/17: The Lebanon man killed in an industrial accident Tuesday died from multiple blunt force trauma , according to the Warren County Coroner ’s Office. His death was ruled an accident. Doyle Burke, chief investigator for the coroner’s office, said Douglas Mescher, 30, of Lebanon, was killed Tuesday when he was struck by machinery that weighs 26 tons. UPDATE @ 1:30 p.m. 8/23/17: The results of the autopsy performed today by the Warren County Coroner ’s Office have not been released, officials said. Douglas Mescher, 30, of Lebanon, was killed Tuesday when the load he was under slid off the forks of a forklift and crushed...

Motorists who use North Main Street to travel between downtown Fort Worth and the Stockyards should be prepared to use a detour — for roughly the next three years. Starting at 3 a.m. Saturday, North Main Street will be closed in both directions between Northeast Seventh and 11th streets — not far from LaGrave Field and the Coyote Drive-In theater. Traffic will be detoured to Commerce Street and delays for drivers are expected to be minimal. The reason? Workers will be building a new bridge as part of the nearly $ 1 billion Panther Island project that will eventually carry North Main Street traffic over a re-routed portion of the Trinity River. The bridge will be built over dry land so that when the money is available to re-route the river, the road will already be in place. The closure of the four-block stretch of North Main Street is expected to last until some time in 2020, officials said. “Access to local businesses on North Main Street will be maintained, and the detour w...