Commissioners Consider Land for Library

At their regular meeting tonight, the will consider buying land for the new $5 million library.

The 6.14 acres is located on Highway 20/Cumming Highway near Old Mill Road and will cost $170,000, according to the Cherokee Tribune.

The library is expected to cost about $5 million, $3.1 in SPLOST money and $2 million in state funds.

The board will also consider an intergovernmental agreement with Woodstock for road improvements along Ridgewalk Parkway in conjunction with an outlet mall project.

On Dec. 13, 2011 the  unanimously approved a request to move forward with The Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta. 

At the Dec. 20, , Woodstock officials asked the county for $700,000 to assist them with improvements to Ridgewalk Parkway. They suggested using a portion of the $3 million in SPLOST funds earmarked for the Arnold Mill bypass. The money will likely not go to the bypass.

, the board agreed to give Woodstock the money.

Construction on  was slated to begin in the first half of this year, according to a Dec. 13 news release from Horizon Group Properties, the Michigan company that plans to develop the 365,000-square-foot mall at Ridgewalk Parkway and Interstate 575. 

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