Holly Springs Moves Forward With Town Center Parking Deck

HOLLY SPRINGS, GA — The Holly Springs City Council at its Monday, Jan. 7 meeting approved an agreement to provide engineering and design services for the parking deck slated to be constructed within the city's Town Center redevelopment project.

Council members voted to approve the agreement with Kimley Horn to build the deck on property at 241 Hickory Road. City Manager Rob Logan said the agreement gives him the authority to approve tasks identified in the proposal "as needed."

Logan said at this point, he's only authorizing the go-ahead for the first task of the contract, which involves providing an overall schematic design of the parking deck. This portion will cost $33,100, according to city documents.

The 100,000-square-foot standalone parking deck would include between 250 and 300 parking spaces, and would be accessible directly from Hickory Road. It's also expected to have gated access, ticket distributors, loop detectors and fee computers.

According to Kimley Horn's proposal, it anticipates that the deck will have one stair and elevator tower to serve the parking deck. Lighting will be provided by LED fixtures, and it's anticipate that there will be four spaces dedicated to electric vehicles.

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Holly Springs' Town Center project is designed to provide various residential housing options, and retail and office space in the heart of the city. The focal point will be the new City Hall and ample greenspace that could be used to host Holly Springs' special events.

Going hand-in-hand with that project is the construction of a road network. This part of the project includes installing a roundabout east of Cherokee County Fire Station No. 8 on Hickory Road and the construction of the Palm Street Extension just north of Walnut Street to Hickory Road roundabout.

That plan also includes removing the stop sign at the intersection of Palm Street and Hickory Road, building another westbound travel lane and converting the northern ending of Palm Street to a right-in/right-out intersection.

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