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[augga706]

New condos and retail space are planned for the former Woolworth building, which has been vacant since 1992.

Atlanta-based Redstar Development will begin renovations this summer, possibly in July. The $2.5 million project includes 15 second-floor condos and street-level retail space. The renovations should take 10 months, said project manager Vince Williams.

The developers are "talking to big-box tenants," but they will most likely split the 20,000-square-foot retail space into four or five spaces, he said.

The development company has completed similar projects in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Miami and Baltimore.

Condos slated for Woolworth building

Edited by augga706, 18 March 2009 - 09:22 AM.

[All4Augusta]

Is there any blueprint or link online where I can see what the St.Sebastian Way project is going to look like when complete?

[Martinman]

I don't know that anyone has mentioned the exciting new Master Plan that was completed earlier this year for the urban area on both sides of the Savannah River.  It was done by ICON Architecture of Boston and envisions several urban villages or town centers connecting some of the city's assets with the downtown core.  Perhaps my favorite part of the plan is to create active medians on Broad Street.

Broad Street median





Augusta Master Plan

Edited by Martinman, 26 July 2009 - 07:23 PM.

[SCGuy]

The Medical District is getting another lowrise building.  The School of Dentistry just broke ground for a new 5 floor building near its current site.  It is an attractive building from what I saw briefly on the news.  Looking forward to lots of growth in this area.

[krazeeboi]

augga706, on 19 June 2008 - 05:27 PM, said:

Plans for the new downtown Augusta library were approved Tuesday by Augusta Historic Preservation Commission Chairman Mark Lorah. Among the changes are those to the front entrance, which will be constructed with limestone instead of black granite, as originally proposed. Major changes also have been made to the Greene Street side of the building to make it more compatible with houses in that area. The $22 million building at James Brown Boulevard between Greene and Telfair streets will be built with special-purpose sales-tax money with oversight by the city's project manager.

Library in downtown Augusta

I see there's not much activity on this forum. But the new library came out looking very nice and very close to the rendering. It opened June 25, 2010: