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THURSDAY. APRIL 29. 2004 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 5A
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Plans for second major development
at Hwy. 515/53 intersection announced
be ready to build by this summer.
The sewage and water is in place.
There’s nothing to hold it back.”
Estes said they have been getting
regular inquiries from real estate
buyers who represent chain operated
businesses.
He said a steak house, seafood
restaurant, bank and motel are
among the possible future buyers
who are either in negotiations or
expressing interest in the sites
which are priced at $520,000 for a
one acre parcel with direct frontage
on Highway 575. On the rear of the
development, one acre parcels are
listed at $225,000.
Estes said there has also been
interest from a representative of a
“big box store” in space to build a
25,000 square foot store.
In addition to changing local
shopping patterns, the development
will alter driving patterns with
related road changes.
The plans call for a new three
lane road to come out of the 38 acre
Home Depot/Kroger development
on the west side of Highway 515,
extend across the four-lane at an
intersection with a traffic light into
Jasper Highlands and continue
through those stores, exiting on
Highway 53 across the street from
Community Bank where there will
be another new traffic light.
Estes said this will offer another
route to access all the stores there
including the Home Depot area
without relying on the already con
gested Highway 53/515 intersec
tion. He said they had worked close
ly with the developer at the Home
Depot site to see that road access
would serve both shopping centers.
Joe Warren, the sales agent for
M.E. Realty, said with the road
changes and the growth, people will
not recognize the area within two
years.
He said this development had
gone largely unnoticed because of a
large hill sitting at the front of the
property. “Now, that the hill is com
ing down, a lot of people are asking
what’s going on there,” he said.
Warren said for marketing
research he found traffic counts
showing slightly more than 25,000
cars go through the Highway 53
intersection on Highway 515 every
day.
A planned phase two of this
development will add another 52
acres extending from the northeast
of the property towards Gordon
Road and the Mountain City Busi
ness Park there along Old Philadel
phia Road.
Eventually another new road run
ning north through the development
linking Highway 53 and Old
Philadelphia will also be opened.
Estes said he envisions all the
parcels of both phases being sold
strictly as commercial and mainly to
chain style operations.
“Unfortunately or fortunately,
this will bring a Riverstone (in
Cherokee County) style of develop
ment here,” he said.
Estes said when complete, he
believes that area will be the center
of commercial activity in Jasper.
“In the next five to ten years,
Jasper will be out here,” he said. “It
will be unbelievable what will hap
pen.”
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Jasper’s online sewer system brings
highway development one step closer
After running directly north
along the highway and crossing
under the road at Goss Tractor, the
forced line cuts east on Harmony
School Road. It then continues
north at Refuge Road, tying onto an
older forced main at Pickens Coun
ty Middle School which proceeds to
the waste facility.
“Every pump station services a
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large portion of Highway 515,” said
Weaver.
The five pump stations each con
tain two motors pumping up to 200
gallons of raw sewage per minute,
with at least 20 horsepower, accord
ing to Water Plant supervisor David
Hall. The last pump station before
the waste water plant — pump sta
tion E on Harmony School Road —
is powered by two 88 horsepower
motors.
“This will take care of the city’s
needs for a few years down the road
before we have to upgrade,” Hall
said.
The southernmost development
currently tied onto the system is the
Race Trac gas station on 515.
Before the system was complet
ed, sewage from the Race Trac and
surrounding businesses was held in
a tank at pump station A and
pumped out by a pumper truck, and
disposed of at the waste water plant.
The mayor pointed to new,
smaller businesses on Harmony
School Road who have benefitted
most recently from the system’s
completion.
Also, sewage from the yet-to-be
developed Bethany Moorings sub
division on Bethany Road will be
gravity fed to pump station B on
Highway 108, said the mayor.
Although the plans for the sewer
project were drawn up and
approved by the state in 1999, it has
been installed slowly mainly
because the city could not afford to
build it all at one time.
Other infrastructure improve
ments have been developed in the
meantime, including properties sur
rounding the new hospital and the
future site of Home Depot and
Kroger.
The system had to be built in
steps, Weaver said, as funding could
be acquired from developers. Some
parts of the latest project have been
in the ground since 2000.
“We weren’t overly funded,”
said Weaver. “Something has
always had to be added on to the
sewer, and we did it as we went
along.”
Property owners and developers
who own large or multiple tracts —
mostly commercial — along the
highway each paid $75,000 for the
right to tie onto the system. Togeth
er they paid for about half of the
$1.2 million cost, according to Hall.
The other half was paid for by
state loans issued to the city, who
the mayor said has an outstanding
debt of $400,000 on the system.
The latest holdup, according to
Hall, was a bore under the highway
to connect Goss Tractor to pump
station D, which is tucked across
the road in a small valley on the
right of way.
Two holes had to be bored under
the four-lane — one for a gravity
line connecting Goss’s property to
the pump station, and one for the
forced main going back across and
proceeding along the highway.
Since 1999, Jasper has installed
close to $2.5 million of water and
sewer infrastructure on Highway
515, according to Hall. Separate
projects brought water and sewer to
Mountainside Medical Center, a
160-unit apartment complex that is
being built, and surrounding proper
ty that is in the process of being
developed.
Developers also paid for most of
those improvements, the mayor
said.
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