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The Macon Newsroom

In June of 2020, Macon-Bibb County commissioners got their first look at preliminary plans for a $10 million upgrade of the nearly 100-year-old Macon City Auditorium.

Glass lobby for City Auditorium at risk as SPLOST priorities shift

Amendments to 2018 timeline speed jail repairs, buy property near courthouse, improve parks and prep for Forest Hill widening
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
October 5, 2021
Built in 1976 to house Le Chateau Great Steaks, this building at 2460 Riverside Drive was a Bennigan's Tavern in the '80s and '90s.  Enterprise will put a truck rental location on the site.

Planned inmate re-entry house might be too close to private school property

Macon-Bibb P&Z also approves new use for the old Bennigan's restaurant on Riverside Drive
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
July 12, 2021
Warren Associates is working to secure doors at the Bibb County Jail that are routinely jammed  by inmates.

Inmates jam door locks “all the time,” sheriff tells Macon-Bibb Commissioners

Commissioners learned of jail safety improvements and approved Eisenhower Business District, funded designs for Rosa Parks Square and Bass Road
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
June 8, 2021
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