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The Augusta-Richmond County Coliseum Authority’s plan for a $228-million-plus James Brown Arena complex would seat more than 10,000, with a wing connecting it to Bell Auditorium. The priciest downtown item in the special purpose, local option sales tax 8 project up for approval is $25 million for a new James Brown Arena at the site of the current arena on Seventh Street. [IMAGES COURTESY OF PERKINS & WILL] proposed military museum to be located at the old Richmond Academy building. With the bulk of Augusta’s blighted properties located in and around downtown, the package includes $4 million for blight mitigation, such as replacing blighted structures. Projects that could benefit downtown include the list’s $23.5 million for road resurfacing, $20 million to supplement the stormwater utility fee for grading and drainage projects and funding for tree, sidewalk and traffic system work. Projects on the SPLOST 8 list that aren’t downtown include $5 million in seed money for a regional water park and $11 million to replace the Richmond County Correctional Institute. On the list for downtown is $500,000 for video security “enhancements,” possibly supplementing Richmond County Sheriff’s Office surveillance and $600,000 for maintenance of three city cemeteries – Magnolia and Cedar Grove downtown, as well as Westview near Lake Olmstead. The package includes $5.5 million for a juvenile justice and training center, the brainchild of Chief Superior Court Judge Carl C. Brown. Columbia County’s recent decision to leave the Augusta Judicial Circuit could impact the project but its proposed location is at the Craig Houghton School or the former Joint Law Enforcement Center, both of which are downtown. 40 | 1736magazine.com
WHILE NOT EVERY PROPOSED PROJECT MADE THE CUT, I BELIEVE THAT SPLOST 8 REPRESENTS MUCH- NEEDED PROJECTS THAT WILL MOVE AUGUSTA FORWARD. MAYOR HARDIE DAVIS 1736magazine.com | 41
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