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.