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Linear Park in the historic Pleasant Hill neighborhood is separated from Interstate 75 by a barrier wall and runs between Walnut Street and First Avenue where Middle Street once was.

County seeks new name as part of $2M renovation for bungled Pleasant Hill park

Public may submit ideas online until Nov. 1
Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
October 17, 2024
The dormer of this house at 1783 First Ave. overlooks Jefferson Long Park and is down Craft Street from The Little Richard Resource House. The Georgia Department of Transportation paid CEA more than $180,000 to build it for a nonprofit created by Rep. James Beverly.

Minimal oversight led to misspent money meant for Pleasant Hill, records show

GDOT paid $180,000 to build a home for nonprofit created by Rep. James Beverly
Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
July 18, 2024
The Macon-Bibb County Community Enhancement Authority build this house at 231 Moughon Street Lane in 2020. Four years later, it is vacant with trash on the porch, boarded up windows and tall grass.

Macon authority created to fight poverty in Pleasant Hill can’t say how it spent millions

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 24, 2024
A rendering of Pleasant Hill Landing apartments, a 64-unit affordable housing development planned at 151 Madison St. where Macon Charter School once operated.

New apartment complex with 64 units planned in Pleasant Hill

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 15, 2024
Benches in downtown Macon at the intersection of Poplar Street and Third Street. In downtown, mature trees line some streets while trees are absent from others altogether.

Macon’s inequitable tree growth highlights historical discrepancies

Gabriel Kopp
December 22, 2023
Nicole Persley

Descendant of prominent Maconites ‘shocked’ by family’s hidden secret

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
July 14, 2023
Dozens of neighbors packed into the April 24 Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission meeting to oppose a new subdivision on Walden Road.

330 people oppose rezoning farmland for 164 new homes on Walden Road

A standing-room-only crowd packed the Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission hearing trying to preserve nearly 97 acres as agricultural, not residential
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
April 26, 2023
A crew employed by Stafford Construction works on a new home on Ward Street in Macon's Pleasant Hill neighborhood. Pleasant Hill is one of the places carved out for work by a new, federally funded affordable housing non-profit group of which Stafford Construction is a member.

Macon has millions for affordable housing development. A new nonprofit will decide how it’s spent.

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 6, 2023
Peter Givens stands near the entrance of a pedestrian bridge over Interstate 75 that connects the west an east sides of the Pleasant Hill neighborhood. The neighborhood was severed in the '60s with the construction of Interstate 75.

GDOT promised better in Pleasant Hill after cutting it in half it with I-75. Has the state kept its word?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 7, 2023
Stacy Jones lives in a small blue house at the dead end of Roosevelt Avenue with his 6-year-old daughter and 97-year-old grandmother. He said he feels like Pleasant Hill is being gentrified.

A state authority got millions to reduce poverty in Pleasant Hill. Has it helped?

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
December 14, 2022

Mayor says violence prevention is working, I-16 homeless camp cleared, Macon Mall renovation progressing

Macon-Bibb County Mayor Lester Miller answered the public's questions through the Center for Collaborative Journalism's Ask Mayor Miller
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
November 1, 2022
Millennium Bar & Grill’s owner originally sought to have adult entertainment at 2455 Emery Highway, but did not meet the necessary distance requirements away from the neighboring X-Mart Adult Supercenter about 800 feet away.

P&Z considers overnight bikini bar, potential Pleasant Hill ‘opioid clinic’

Monday’s agenda includes new homes in old neighborhoods, Bloomfield convenience store, new North Macon locations for dance studio, tutoring center
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
February 11, 2022
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