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Rome Officials Trying to Deal With Housing Dilemma

Posted under City of Rome, Community Development, Construction on August 14th, 2008 by RomeNewswire0 comments

Rome’s Community Development Committee learned of a major housing issue Wednesday.
Code enforcement officer Glen Rubin says his office has targeted a number of homes owned by the elderly for enforcement action, but that most of them cannot afford the repairs to bring their homes to code.

Gas Leak Blocks Traffic On Martha Berry At N. 5th

Posted under Fire, Construction on April 23rd, 2008 by RomeNewswire0 comments

Workers from Atlanta Natural Gas work to repair a natural gas leak at the intersection of Martha Berry Blvd and North 5th Avenue.
Traffic on North 5th and Martha Berry Blvd was completely blocked for about 25 minutes.

Hight Homes Property Will Not Be Razed Anytime Soon

Posted under Community Development, Government, Construction on February 20th, 2008 by RomeNewswire0 comments

It appears the Hight Homes public housing complex at the intersection of North 5th Avenue and Turner McCall Boulevard will not fall to the wrecking ball anytime soon.
The Housing Authority of Northwest Georgia has decided not to make a recommendation to its board of directors concerning the proposed redevelopment of the area by a Rome […]

Adairsville Paves Way for New Development

Posted under Construction on February 15th, 2008 by RomeNewswire0 comments

A physician got the okay from Adairsville’s city council Thursday night for a zoning variance that will pave the way for the first units in the Village of Anne Marie.
Dr. Amin Ghanem’s son, the lead architect for the project, Eduard Navarro Ghanem was removed from the city’s planning commission last night so as to avoid […]

Levy Wants To Add Condos Above Hotel Expansion

Posted under Business Development, Community Development, Downtown Development, Construction on January 31st, 2008 by RomeNewswire0 comments

The five story expansion of the Hawthorn Suites Hotel downtown, could be topped by two story’s of condominiums.
Developer Ira Levy is pitching the new plans to the Historic Preservation Commission and the Rome Floyd Planning Commission. Levy hopes to get quick approval for the latest plans so that final arrangements for a new […]

Housing Starts Down Significantly

Posted under Construction on December 27th, 2007 by RomeNewswire0 comments

With figures from the month of December not expected the change the bottom line, evidence of the slowdown in housing construction is available in both Rome and Floyd County. Through November, 48 single family housing starts were authorized in the city of Rome. That compares to 95 through the same period of time […]

Working On The Railroad, New Tracks Being Added In Lindale

Posted under Construction on November 12th, 2007 by RomeNewswire0 comments

Norfolk Southern Railroad is anticipating additional freight traffic growth, therefore it is spending a large amount of money in southern Floyd County.
Robin Chapman in the railroad communications office says the railroad is adding a parallel line for a distance of approximately 2.6 miles from near the old Lindale mill.
He could not say how much the […]

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