9+ mon, 3+ day ago   (327+ words) ATHENS — The developer proposing a hotel on the site of the University of Georgia’s historic President’s House has returned with a scaled-back plan aimed at easing neighborhood concerns over size, noise and traffic. Gainesville-based Capstone Property Group submitted a revised…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (688+ words) LYONS — Amid the rolling farmland and the country towns below I-16, along the U.S. highway that links Savannah and Columbus, a larger-than-life creation anchored atop the Toombs County courthouse serves as an architecture-meets-agriculture icon of eye-watering proportions. A 9-foot-wide, 10-foot-tall stainless…...

11+ mon, 4+ day ago   (741+ words) SAVANNAH ― New hotel projects pop up in Savannah like weeds in a neglected lawn — except near the city’s bustling convention center, located on an island across the Savannah River from the historic downtown. That changed Wednesday with the construction launch…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (423+ words) Savannah needs more than tourism Following the recent Georgia Governor’s Tourism Conference, it is worth asking whether Savannah has leaned too heavily on tourism at the expense of long-term stability. Tourism has its place, but overdependence on it has left…...