MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Macon-Bibb County Mayor Lester Miller, along with Macon Housing Authority CEO Mike Austin and Erion Smith from the Pleasant Hill Neighborhood Organization (PHNO), announced the Re-imagine Civic Commons Project in the Pleasant Hill Historic District on Wednesday.
The project aims to re-imagine one of the abandoned areas in the district, near the corner of Madison Street and Walnut Street, by adding 64 affordable residential and commercial units and connecting the area to various parts of Macon to breathe life back to the neighborhood.
Mayor Lester Miller said the Pleasant Hill neighborhood suffered after being split in half years,ago, and with the acquisition of recent funds, brought about the Re-imagine Project, he says the main goal is to bring more of the population back to the area to save historic locations…