River Crossing Groundbreaking to be Sept. 12
August 07 2006 - 5:06PM
Business Wire
A ceremonial groundbreaking for The Shoppes at River Crossing is
scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 12, at 10 a.m., with local business
and government leaders joining executives from Jim Wilson &
Associates, Inc. (JWA) and General Growth Properties, Inc.
(NYSE:GGP), the two companies that are building the
750,000-square-foot regional shopping and entertainment center at
Interstate 75 and Riverside Drive in Macon, Ga. The center is
scheduled to open in the spring of 2008 with upscale specialty
stores, restaurants, two department stores and five mid-size anchor
stores. Actual construction is scheduled to commence this month.
"It took the leadership of many local authorities and business
leaders to make this project possible," said Will Wilson, vice
president of development for Jim Wilson & Associates. "At our
groundbreaking ceremony we will salute the teamwork and visionary
leadership that will make The Shoppes at River Crossing a magnet
for shoppers and visitors from miles around." The Shoppes at River
Crossing will be the first open-air retail and entertainment center
in Bibb County and will serve a 22-county trade area in central
Georgia with an estimated population of 612,000. Macon was recently
named by Inc. magazine as one of the "top 50 small metro areas in
the U.S." "We look forward to serving the people of the heart of
Georgia," said John Bergstrom, senior vice president, development,
General Growth Properties. "We will introduce retail stores and
restaurants that Macon will embrace, situated in an environment
that visitors will want to enjoy time and time again." Crawford
McWilliams Hatcher of Birmingham, Ala. serves as the architect on
the development and Brasfield & Gorrie also of Birmingham will
be the general contractor. Jim Wilson & Associates, Inc., based
in Montgomery, Ala., is a privately owned real estate company
specializing in shopping centers, residential real estate
investments, offices, condominiums, hotels and multi-use
developments. With over three decades of real estate experience,
JWA has developed in excess of 21 million square-feet of shopping
center space. The company's development portfolio includes
residential communities and condominium residences, multi-use
developments, Class A office buildings and hotel and country club
assets. For more information, visit www.jwamalls.com General Growth
Properties, Inc. headquartered in Chicago, is the second largest
U.S.-based publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).
General Growth currently has an ownership interest in or management
responsibility for a portfolio of more than 200 shopping malls in
44 states, as well as ownership in planned community developments
and commercial office buildings. The portfolio totals approximately
200 million square feet of retail space and includes more than
24,000 retail stores nationwide. General Growth Properties, Inc. is
listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GGP. For
more information, please visit the company web site at
http://www.generalgrowth.com.
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