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Check the status of 32 planned developments throughout the region. Date published: 2/16/2008
YOU’VE SEEN the stories, often embellished
with artists’ renderings and great expectations. Big plans, big bucks, a big project coming to your town soon. As you’ve no doubt noticed that sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn’t.
We looked back over the past few years and tracked the progress of 32 such projects in our area.
Some are on track, some are waylaid by the economic downturn, and some may never see the light of day. The artists’ renderings were pretty, though.
Cal Ripken baseball The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation will build a baseball-fields complex in Fredericksburg, near the Bragg Hill neighborhood. This would complement the various other programs the foundation is already sponsoring in area schools and youth-serving organizations. The group will conduct a fundraising campaign this year to build the fields, which could cost about $2 million.
Celebrate Virginia Gondola The plan: The Silver Cos. proposes building a gondola to shuttle tourists from one side of the Rappahannock River to the other. It would link its Celebrate Virginia North project, which includes Cannon Ridge Golf Club, with Celebrate Virginia South, the site of the proposed Kalahari Resorts water park as well as the Fredericksburg Expo & Conference Center, various hotels and other attractions. Status: The holdup has been finding someone to operate the gondola, said Jud Honaker, the Silver Cos.’ president of commercial development. He has had preliminary discussions with Kalahari Resorts about running it.
CITY COURTHOUSE Fredericksburg recently agreed to work with Keating Development Corp. to explore the possibility of putting a new courts complex on the site the post office now occupies on Princess Anne Street. The city still has to decide whether to build the roughly $60 million project in phases or all at once. Officials have set a goal of opening the new courts by the end of 2010.
COBBLESTONE SQUARE The plan: Local developers Hunter Greenlaw and Andy Garrett planned to start construction by the end of 2002 on the first phase of a development that would include 398 apartments, offices, retail space, a 10-acre public park adjacent to Hazel Run and a paved trail toward downtown. Status: Two apartment buildings have been completed, and a bridge into the project awaits inspection by the city.
CROW’S NEST
Funny how so much development is taking place and the few plans for improved roads still languish behind. Plans being drawn, or money being set aside won't let folks get to any of these new places any faster.
Build the doggon roads! Improve our traffic. Quit overdeveloping our area and forcing residents to spend more time sitting in traffic. My last trip up I95 from Massaponax to the Expo Center Friday a week ago took an hour, most was spent outside the light at Central Park.Perfectly named!
...features condos, not apartments. Four units in each building are rented out, but the large majority are owner-occupied.
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