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Milestone
Tidal Real Estate Partners has filed permits to convert the 232-unit Ann Street Lofts into a hotel, following its sister building at 110 Ann St., which reopened as Ann Savannah by Marriott Bonvoy last year.
Budget
Georgia DOT and the Georgia Ports Authority opened the Brampton Road Connector on July 15, the last piece of a 12-year, $600 million freight-corridor buildout, as the port closed the fiscal year at 5.67 million containers.
Milestone
International Paper has formally listed the 400-acre mill site plus 335 acres across the river for redevelopment, five months after closing a plant that ran for 90 years and employed 800 people.
Transaction
A treatment plant serving industrial growth in Liberty County drew more than 200 people to a meeting, and the bill is still unsettled.
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