Strategies build on success of urban core revitalization to support neighborhoods, businesses, tourism and connectivity
MACON, Ga. — Macon visionaries are optimistic the award-winning success of downtown’s resurgence will spread into surrounding neighborhoods and lure more visitors to the urban core through the Macon Action Plan XL.
Next on their horizon are 19 new strategies to capitalize on the likelihood of having Georgia’s first national park at the Ocmulgee Mounds, revitalize nearby neighborhoods and connect them to the river by enhancing the Ocmulgee Heritage Trail.
“Hope is so much more contagious than despair,” NewTown Macon President Josh Rogers said at this week’s unveiling of Interface Studio’s third iteration of the people-led plan that is intended to build on two prior plans that had a major impact on the city since 2014.
When NewTown won a Great American Main Street Award this summer, Rogers said the audience audibly gasped when learning downtown went from 70% abandoned to 85% thriving.
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