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The old Holiday Inn off Riverside Drive in north Macon will become a 95-unit affordable housing apartment complex under plans approved by P&Z.

P&Z: Old Holiday Inn to be apartments; new use for Westgate parking lot

Macon Housing Authority shelves East Bank apartments and proposed solid waste transfer station proposal deferred two weeks
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
May 9, 2023
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
Calvin Jackson picks up trash in the yard of one of two vacant houses in ill repair in the cul de sac on his street in the Kings Park neighborhood of Macon recently. Jackson says picking up trash this way is a habit he's had for a few years. "They tell me it's not my job," he said. "I do it anyway."

Addressing Blight in Macon

New Code Enforcement Office combatting neighborhood blight
Debbie Blankenship, Center for Collaborative Journalism
April 20, 2021
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