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First Hurdle Cleared for 400-Acre Mixed-Use Development

ATLANTA-The centerpiece at the Columbus Park project will be the 750,000-sf, 50-store Columbus Park Crossing shopping center. The construction cost will be at least $100 million. The economic impact will create more than 1,000 new jobs; generate over $150 million in annual sales; and deliver about $8.5 million in annual property and sales tax revenues.

By Judith Schonbak | Updated on August 23, 2000

Ben Carter Properties has won a unanimous vote from the Columbus Planning Advisory Commission to rezone 307.8 acres in north Columbus, GA, about 125 miles south of Atlanta. Next stop—the Columbus City Council.

The council has the final say. If it gives a thumbsup come mid-September, Ben Carter Properties is set to start development on Phase I of the nearly 400-acre master-planned Columbus Park mixed-use project.

The Atlanta-based firm will begin site work and construction on a 2.5 mile four-lane road and on a 100-acre open-air mall in October 2000. The 750,000-sf Columbus Park Crossing shopping center will house about 50 stores, including national chain merchants not yet in Columbus.

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