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Sunday Edition December 2, 2018 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 MPO touches $1.4B economic corridor plan unveiled upon Cass- BY JAMES SWIFT include 900 single family units, 2,100 active adult [email protected] facility units, 300 townhomes and 75,000 square White Road feet of medical office. The completed development Bartow County got its first glimpse of a pro- is projected to top out at around 3,700 residential posed tax allocation district (TAD) in and around units and 565,000 square feet of commercial and improvements, Emerson Wednesday morning, as plans for the residential property. $1.4 billion Etowah-Allatoona Economic Corridor The Allatoona Landing project would include a sidewalk work were revealed to the public. 100-key hotel, 500 marina expansion slips and an The plans largely revolve around two major pro- 8,000-square-foot amphitheater. grant monies posed economic developments — a 1,000 acre- The plan was presented as part of a public hear- plus commercial and residential mixed-use site, ing concerning a resolution to authorize a TAD BY JAMES SWIFT called Etowah Highlands, and a revamped Alla- “down around the proposed Jacoby development [email protected] toona Landing project with 30,000 square feet of at Paga Mine Road,” said Bartow County Admin- retail and 200 vacation rental units. istrator Peter Olson. Bartow Transportation Planner Tom Sills ran down a lengthy list RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS The Etowah Highlands project would be con- Jim Jacoby, the Atlanta-based real estate devel- The proposed Etowah Highlands project would create 3,700 structed atop the old Paga Mine property, abutting oper referenced by Olson, hasn’t been secretive of updates at Wednesday’s residential units and 565,000 square feet of commercial and the Etowah River to the north and Red Top Moun- Cartersville-Bartow Metropolitan residential properties on the old Paga Mine site. tain Road to the south. Plans for that development SEE CORRIDOR, PAGE 4A Planning Organization (MPO) meeting. “As far as projects, Cass-White Phase I is underway — that’s going to involve a railroad bridge Cartersville there at Cass-White Road,” he said. “They’re clearing and grub- Medical bing the location where the bridge ASTERN NFLUENCE will go. The earth moving on that E I will start in January.” Center Sills said he expects the project, which spans from U.S. 411 to receives Kobe Steak & Colonel Way, to take two years to complete. A concept meeting de- Excellence Sushi tailing Cass-White Phase II recon- struction and rehabilitation — which would span from Busch Awards celebrates Drive to Great Valley Parkway — is slated for Dec. 10. BY MARIE NESMITH According to Georgia Depart- [email protected] grand opening ment of Transportation (GDOT) Released Oct. 23, Healthgrades’ documents, the estimated price tag 2019 Report to the Nation show- in Cartersville for the project is currently tabbed ered Cartersville Medical Center at a little under $15 million. BY JAMES SWIFT On the south side of the county, with a host of awards. [email protected] “Honestly, I see the diligence of Sills said funding has been re- ceived to put in sidewalks on New our staff and physicians on a daily There’s a term diners at the recently basis, delivering the highest qual- Hope Church Road to connect Al- opened Kobe Steak & Sushi restaurant in latoona Elementary School to the ity of care and striving for excel- Cartersville should know — “kaizen.” lence, so the news was really not Allatoona Resource Center on It’s not just the Japanese way of saying Glade Road. surprising, but absolutely wel- “change for the better,” it’s a business phi- “We haven’t received any infor- comed,” CMC CEO Chris Mosley losophy owner and managing partner Alva mation from GDOT on that for our said. “The recognition is a direct Edison takes to heart. next steps,” he said. “We just got reflection of how seriously our “I know we have been planning it for a told the money was coming.” team focuses on the safe delivery long time, but for me, the restaurant service The same holds true for plans to of exceptional patient care. is something you will never stop improv- “As part of our commitment to ing,” the 51-year-old said. “You have to install sidewalks on Grassdale excellence, we welcome and par- continuously improve, to see what the mar- Road from Cassville Road to U.S. ticipate in various certification and ket wants … we’re always trying to make a 41. accreditation surveys. For exam- better product, everyday.” “Again, there’s no details on ple, to be accredited as a Chest In fact, Edison has the mantra boiled what happens next, we’re still Pain Center, we are required to down to a catchy acronym: CANI, which waiting on the paperwork from follow rigorous guidelines and stands for “continuous and never-ending GDOT,” Sills said. “It’s a joint protocols. As a result, we achieve improvement.” project between Bartow County superior outcomes, which ulti- “That’s the concept that I believe,” he and the City of Cartersville, so the mately result in recognition.” said, “and all of my workers and executive local match gets paid split there.” chefs believe in, too.” Requests for proposals to con- SEE CMC, PAGE 2A That’s one of the reasons why Edison has duct a downtown Cartersville rail- waited two weeks to mark the grand open- road crossing feasibility study, ing of his new restaurant at 465 Cherokee Sills said, are expected to go out Place, which is situated in the end cap that next month. And regarding the 33 students once housed the “old” Las Palmas. Rome-Cartersville Development The completely remodeled space has a Corridor, Sills said the Federal chosen as very modern — if not “inside the perime- Highway Administration recently ter” — vibe, complete with a giant anime- approved the acquisition of some stylized mural, a sleek sushi bar serving property where the estimated $140 Governor’s area and eight hibachi tables, where cus- million project will one day be tomers get a little bit of performance art to RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS constructed. Honors district complement their fried rice, gyoza and Kobe Steak & Sushi owner Alva Edison celebrated his restaurant's grand opening The acquisition, he added, is “in shrimp tempura. over the weekend. advance of completing the prelim- nominees The business model may be similar to inary engineering.” other restaurants in the area, but Edison said executive chefs — 21-year restaurant vet- rant,” Edison said. However, Sills had little news BY DONNA HARRIS Kobe takes the concept to a totally different eran David Soeun, who oversees the hi- Not that he’s a newcomer to restauranting on two major — and long-dis- [email protected] level. “We’re trying to offer a unique expe- bachi side of the business, and Sandang Sm, by any stretch. He’s been in the business cussed — transportation projects rience,” he said. “We provide better quality the virtuoso behind Kobe’s sushi-side oper- since 2003, having traveled from Tennessee in Cartersville. Several intelligent, talented stu- and better entertainment with our chefs.” ations. SEE , PAGE 2A dents from Bartow County’s two Edison is quick to give credit to his two “They are the ones who run this restau- KOBE SEE MPO, PAGE 6A school systems are one step closer to experiencing a summer that could change their lives. Twenty-three Bartow County students and 10 Cartersville City Former President George students have been named district nominees for the 2019 Georgia Governor’s Honors Program and H.W. Bush dies at age 94 now move on to the state level of the competition. BY MICHAEL GRACZYK a deepening economic crisis at home would drive him Students who end up being se- Associated Press from office when he lost his bid for re-election. lected as finalists next spring will Still, the Republican would reinvent himself yet spend four weeks in an elite sum- George H.W. Bush played many prominent pub- again by becoming an elder statesman admired by mer residential program — con- lic roles in nearly a century of life, from when he members of both major political parties. Bush, who ducted next year from June 16 to was a 20-year-old World War II hero to the 41st died just eight months after the death of his wife of July 13 at Berry College in Rome president of the United States. In between came seven decades, Barbara, also saw his son George W. — designed to provide intellectu- turns as a congressman, the director of the CIA, an Bush twice elected as the nation’s 43rd president. ally gifted and artistically talented ambassador to the United Nations and China, and a “George H. W. Bush was a man of the highest sophomores and juniors with chal- two-term vice president. character and the best dad a son or daughter could lenging educational opportunities Yet colleagues and friends say the great-grandfather ask for,” the younger Bush said in a statement Fri- was humble, modest and unfailingly polite. Bush, day. “The entire Bush family is deeply grateful for RON EDMONDS/AP not usually available to them dur- In this Feb. 11, 1991, file photo, President George H.W. Bush talks ing the regular school year. who died late Friday at his Houston home at age 94, 41’s life and love, for the compassion of those who to reporters in the Rose Garden of the White House.