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City looking at expanding redevelopment efforts
The long-term goal of implementing a redevelopment plan for other sections of the City of Rome could be closer to reality. South Rome Redevelopment Corp. Executive Director Melissa Jones is schedul...
Jun 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 46 46 recommendations | email to a friend
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Northwest Georgia LLC partner Doc Kibler said some irons are in the fire for property adjacent to State Mutual Stadium, but it’s far too early to drop the names of potential tenants. The property has been vacant since 2003. (Doug Walker / RN-T.com)
Sports venues play different roles
Build it and they will come. It’s an economic development scenario being espoused by supporters of the proposed Tennis Center of Georgia at Berry. Some people also used the argument as a succe...
Jun 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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LakePoint to boast Braves clubhouse store
LakePoint Sporting Community officials in Bartow County have confirmed that an Atlanta Braves clubhouse store will be a part of the retail community in their mixed-use development. The store wi...
Jun 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
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Demolition of the badly damaged Griffin Auditorium is part of the SPLOST project submitted by the city of Cave Spring. (Jeremy Stewart / Rome News-Tribune)
Cave Spring council talks SPLOST at council meeting
The demolition of an approximately 50-year-old building was a topic of discussion Friday for the Cave Spring City Council. During a special called meeting, council members talked about trying t...
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Atlanta Braves Clubhouse Store headed to LakePoint
LakePoint Sporting Community officials in Bartow County have confirmed that an Atlanta Braves Clubhouse Store will be a part of the retail community in their mixed-use youth sports oriented develop...
Jun 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Architect Mark Cochran of Cochran Design Collaborative details plans for new spaces in the Historic DeSoto Theatre, June 13, 2013. (Brittany Hannah/RN-T)
Capital campaign begins to renovate historic theater
The Historic DeSoto Theatre Foundation has quietly been raising money for several years, garnering $250,000, according to president Paul Griffin. But the Foundation is no longer quiet. The grou...
Jun 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 38 38 recommendations | email to a friend
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SPLOST presentations continue tonight
Members of the 2013 Rome-Floyd SPLOST Citizens Advisory Committee will dive back into the process of prioritizing projects for possible inclusion in November’s referendum. Tonight will be the secon...
Jun 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
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A view of the partially painted exterior of Publix on Turner McCall Boulevard, June 11, 2013. (Brittany Hannah/RN-T)
Bricks going up on Publix exterior

Jun 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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More signs of improving housing market in Rome
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
Jun 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
Rome is holding on as one of the National Association of Homebuilders/First American Improving Markets Index top metro areas even as two of the three indicators have Rome among the lowest metro...
Career academies critical for industries; education officials in the region address the need to replace an aging, experienced workforce
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
Jun 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Nearly half the workforce at Georgia Power Co. is eligible for retirement, whether because of their age or their years of service with the utility. That’s not an altogether unusual scenario for ma...
Popeye’s franchisee awaiting approval to move into former Nice Cars location on Shorter Avenue
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
Jun 08, 2013 | 50 50 recommendations | email to a friend
After an effort to bring a Popeye’s chicken restaurant to Rome fell through more than a year ago, it appears as if the fast-food chain has zeroed in on a new site in West Rome. Partners Aziz H...
The Grill on Redmond is officially open
Jun 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Tina Watson (center with scissors) snips the ribbon to formally open The Grill on Redmond , 1850 Redmond Circle. Members of Watson’s serving and kitchen staff flank her along with ambassadors fr...
Committee hears first round of SPLOST projects
by Jeremy Stewart, staff writer
Jun 07, 2013 | 2 2 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
There is one less thing for the 2013 Rome-Floyd SPLOST Citizens Advisory Committee to worry about. Before the group sat through a marathon four-hour meeting Thursday night, Rome City Manager John B...
Elderly care home opposed by neighbors
by Jeremy Stewart, staff writer
Jun 07, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
The plan for a family to open their home as a group personal care home will have to be revised before the Rome-Floyd Planning Commission will recommend it. A request for a special use permit th...
Floyd County real estate numbers 'incredible' in May
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
Jun 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Rome and Floyd County real estate agents closed the sale of 90 single-family homes in May, up 12.5 percent from the 80 homes that were closed in May a year ago. May sales were also up sharply compa...
Apollo Marketing brings high tech consumer product testing lab to Rome, plans to double size of lab in 12 months
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
Jun 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
Harry Pierce and Rick Chambers are not the kind of businessmen who enjoy waiting on someone else, so when it came time to look at the safety of the gloves they market, they decided to develop a pro...