In the Loop
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Is Ride-Share Service Uber Coming to Athens?
Photo Credit: Photo via uber.com
Replace the late-model Mercedes with a 30-year-old Volvo wagon, and this is what Uber in Athens might look like.
No more stumbling back to the house or throwing up in the back of a van! Finally, rich, drunk college students will be able to get home in style.
It's not clear if the controversial ride-sharing service Uber is operating in Athens yet, but the company is at least looking for drivers.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Aug. 11
Welcome to Athens Power Rankings. In the spirit of sports rating systems, through painstaking analysis, we rank the top movers and shakers in the Classic City each week. Who's hot? Who's not? Find out below.
Kyle Kinane
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Student Housing Developer Turns His Attention to Shopping Center
Photo Credit: Lee Becker
With the student housing complex Athens Ridge on Old Macon Highway now fully leased, Kelly Mahoney said he is turning his attention to the future commercial complex across the street.
The goal is to make that complex, named The Falls of Oconee, a “more boutique version of Butler’s Crossing,” Mahoney said last week.
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More Student Housing Proposed Downtown
Photo Credit: Niles Bolton Associates
At the top of the agenda for the Athens-Clarke County Planning Commission Thursday night was a plan for more student housing.
Campus Acquisitions, a company based in Chicago, wants to turn 165 E. Dougherty St. into a five-story mixed use development with retail spaces at ground level and student apartments above. Until recently, an office building on the property housed Advantage Behavioral Health Systems, and it's now occupied by the tech incubator Four Athens.
The biggest concern voiced by the public and the planning commission was the waiver for residential density. The plan would add 81 residential dwelling units, or 237 bedrooms, which is 27 bedrooms too many, according to the current zoning codes.
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College Square Closed Through Weekend After Flooding
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones
College Square will be closed to traffic for an estimated five days while Athens-Clarke County workers fix the damage from a water main break.
An 80- or 90-year-old 12-inch pipe burst underneath the sidewalk Tuesday evening, flooding the basement of the Subway at the corner of Broad and Clayton streets and a vacant space next door, as well as the nearby sidewalks and streets, according to ACC officials.
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Liquor and SPLOST Will Be on the Oconee County Ballot in November
The Oconee County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday night to put both a 1 percent Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax referendum and a referendum on liquor by the drink in restaurants on the Nov. 4 ballot.
Commissioners also denied a request for a cell tower on McRees Mill Road in the rural area of the county south of Barnett Shoals Road and postponed action on three agreements with the Georgia Department of Transportation on road projects on Daniells Bridge Road and Jimmy Daniell Road.
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Assisted Living Center Prematurely Announces Groundbreaking
Anyone who went to the future location of Thrive Senior Living off Virgil Langford Road over the weekend in response to a news release issued last week by the company would have been surprised by what they didn’t find.
“Atlanta-based Thrive Senior Living has broken ground this week at The Village at Athens, an innovate new Assisted Living and Memory Care community in Athens, GA,” the news release on PRWeb stated, complete with the typing error for “innovative.”
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