The core of Alpharetta is scheduled to have to a facelift, but before work begins, residents and business-owners will be allowed a peek at what the final result could be.
The latest update to the $67 million project will be unveiled Thursday at 7 p.m. at Alpharetta City Hall. Similar presentations and opportunities for public reaction are set periodically through the end of March.
Planners say the latest version of the City Center could include a public library in the 9-acre project around City Hall downtown. The plans call for a 5-plus acre park, a town green, 100,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and office space, a new 50,000-square-foot City Hall, and a 400-space parking garage.
About $25 million would from general obligation bonds with the remainder would come from private development and the county library system.
Before 1993, downtown had flooding problems, few sidewalks, and no lighting.
Since then, the city has invested in parking lots, a pocket park, a detention pond for the flooding, buried utility lines and added lighting, and sidewalks.
City officials want to partner with a private firm to revitalize downtown. The city has had a couple of partnerships that have collapsed, but on April 7, the city selected Solomon Holdings as its new associate.
Other dates for reviewing the new plans are:
Monday, March 9
Thursday, March 26
Monday, March 30
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