Big changes are coming to the Log Cabin Road area, including new sidewalks, a pedestrian bridge, realigned intersections, house demolitions, and a long-awaited, brand new park. On December 16 at 3:00 p.m., the Macon-Bibb County Commission, SPLOST Advisory Commission, members of the Filmore Thomas family, and residents in the Bellevue will celebrate the construction of the new Filmore Thomas Park (3793 Log Cabin Road) with a ceremonial groundbreaking.

The new park is being funded with approximately $1,700,000 from the voter-approved Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST), and it will include a pavilion, a splash pad, a playground, basketball courts, sidewalks and trails, landscaping, and more.

“The Bellevue Neighborhood has been dreaming of this park for 30 years, and our promise as a consolidated Macon-Bibb County was to finally make that dream their reality,” says District 9 Commissioner Al Tillman.

“From Bellevue to Pleasant Hill to Tindall Heights to Downtown to the eastern and southern parts of our county, we are improving and growing our system of parks and recreation centers,” says Macon-Bibb County Mayor Robert Reichert. “Places where people can get together as friends and neighbors are at the center of what builds strong communities, and thanks to the SPLOST and local partnerships, we are making sure those places are what people need and deserve.”

Wednesday’s groundbreaking follows an event hosted by Macon-Bibb County in November to celebrate the demolition of a house to make way for a realignment of the Hollingsworth Road and Log Cabin Road intersection. This realignment  is part of a $1.5 million road improvement project funded by the SPLOST that includes a new pedestrian bridge and repairs to the current roadway bridge over Rocky Creek; constructing new curb and gutter, sidewalk, drainage swales, drainage structures and driveways; realign the intersection of Hollingsworth Road and Log Cabin Drive; adding a northbound left-turn-lane on Log Cabin Drive at Hollingsworth Road; and more.

“I want to thanks former Macon City Council Member Frank Tompkins for his leadership in making sure these SPLOST funds were allocated to Log Cabin Road,” adds Commissioner Tillman. “Since we consolidated, the Commission, administration, and departments have been pushing to get this project moving forward and improve the safety of this entire neighborhood.”