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Project Attracting business to 15th Street

Monday, January 13th, 2014

Fifteen small businesses, five large developers and at least two major companies have expressed interest in opening along the 15th Street corridor after an award-winning project funded by federal and state grants provided a vision for a place residents say is underserved, one city official said this week.

“This is an area of enormous potential that’s waiting to be tapped,” John Paul Stout, the manager of the Au­gus­ta Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Impleme­n­ta­tion Pro­gram.

The project’s 4.5-mile study area runs from downtown to the Re­gen­cy Mall area along 15th Street, Mar­tin Luther King Jr. Boule­vard and Deans Bridge Road.

Stout would not provide specific details on the interested parties because the project remains in its final stages, but he said the businesses include distribution, pharmacy, school expansion, and grocery and fresh food.

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