Macon-Bibb County is fulfilling a promise to aggressively attack blight throughout the community by ridding neighborhoods of abandoned and dilapidated houses, creating greenspace, supporting organizations involved with neighborhood revitalization, and more. Recently, the Commission approved the first series of projects that will receive nearly $4.4 million in blight funding.  Below is a list of these 15 projects; to read more about each, click on the individual project.

• Mill Hill: East Macon Arts Village – $813,000
• OWLS Rehabilitation Project in District 2 – $28,000
• Mattie Hubbard Jones Park in District X – $206,868
• Unionville Street Connection Project – $314,084
• Lynmore Estates Project (Phase One) – $222,870
• SMART Community Lynmore Avenue Project – $144,248
• Kings Park Playground & Hart Community Center Project – $264,640
• Hunt School Senior Housing Support Project – $171,232
• Jeffersonville Road Blight Removal Project – $314,128
• Third Avenue Stabilization Project – $184,312
• Culver Street Commons Project – $121,994
• Emily Street Project – $37,320
• West Bond Street Stabilization – $149,908
• Central South/Tindall Heights Stabilization Project – $710,018
• Village Green Stabilization Project – $708,224

A groundbreaking was recently held to celebrate the start of work on the community center in the Mill Hill: East Arts Village. The Macon Arts Alliance is leading a neighborhood revitalization effort in that area by creating greenspace, improving the pedestrian entrance to the Ocmulgee National Monument, repairing and upgrading houses, demolishing dilapidated buildings, and, with the blight funds, turning the community center into an arts center. Click here to learn more about the Mill Hill Project.