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  • 30 in 30 Initiative continues with more blighted house demolitions
    Since Mayor Lester Miller’s 30 in 30 initiative began Wednesday, April 14, county crews have torn down six blighted houses and cleaned those lots. It began with two houses on Pinson Street, and continued this week with three in Lynmore Estates and one in Lizella on Old Mast Cove. You can see pictures of the announcement and all the demolitions by clicking here. Several weeks ago, 57 […]

    April 22, 2021 published by Edna Ruiz

  • 30 in 30 Initiative: The Mayor’s Fight Against Blight
    Mayor Lester Miller has made it a mission to waste no in tackling blight throughout Macon-Bibb County. On April 14, Mayor Miller, Commissioners, and several departments held a news conference to announce the 30 in 30 Initiative. This initiative is aimed to demolish 30 blighted houses in 30 days. Mayor Miller made this announcement before […]

    April 16, 2021 published by Edna Ruiz

  • New initiative aimed at eliminating blighted, burned structures
    On Friday, February 5, Mayor Lester Miller and multiple departments and agencies announced a new, focused effort to attack blight in neighborhoods by identifying clusters of burned structures that are beyond rehabilitation and repair and can be classified as a nuisance under Macon-Bibb County Code. Burned and blighted properties news conference from MaconBibbTV on Vimeo. […]

    February 5, 2021 published by Edna Ruiz

  • New park replaces blighted structures
    Macon-Bibb County celebrated the creation of the new Reverend Jacob Parker Memorial Park with a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on Friday, December 11. The park features a concrete plaza area, benches, trash cans, sidewalks, picnic tables, landscaping, irrigation, and more. Prior to becoming a park, this area was the site of several blighted structures. The new […]

    December 12, 2020 published by Edna Ruiz

  • House demolitions part of Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park expansion
    On Wednesday, September 23, Macon-Bibb County and partners held a press conference to mark the demolition of two blighted structures and the conveyance of three properties to the National Park Service for the expansion of the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. The event at 195 Fairview Avenue included speakers and the demolition of a blighted house. […]

    September 25, 2020 published by Edna Ruiz

  • Tax Commissioner continues to address blight through property sales
    The Macon-Bibb County Tax Commissioner’s Office has begun the process for its Subsequent Judicial In Rem Tax Sale. The Office is identifying blighted properties that are significantly behind on their property taxes that can be sold to people who are interested in investing in the neighborhood. “Every neighborhood has a future, and it doesn’t include […]

    July 24, 2020 published by Edna Ruiz

  • Recap of September 17, 2019 Macon-Bibb Commission Meeting
    At the Macon-Bibb County Commission meeting on Tuesday, September 17, 2019, Pastor Bo Turner with Real Life Church delivered the invocation. Here is some information about Pastor Turner: Pastor Bo is third-generation Pentecostal, born into a pastor’s home. Accepting the call to ministry in 1988, he served as State Evangelist of the Church of God of […]

    September 25, 2019 published by Edna Ruiz

  • New Wise Avenue Park open now
    The new Wise Avenue Park replaces street of blighted structures Macon-Bibb County leaders celebrated the opening of the new Wise Avenue Park ( off of Riverside Drive between Betty Tolbert Way and Hudson Street ) in the Historic Pleasant Hill neighborhood with a ribbon-cutting event on Wednesday, September 18. You can watch that event here at MaconBibb.TV. Wise […]

    September 20, 2019 published by Edna Ruiz

  • Macon-Bibb taxing blighted properties at higher level, offering incentive to improve the property
    In February 2019, the Commission approved a new Code Section sponsored by Commissioner Joe Allen that is called the Macon-Bibb County Community Redevelopment Tax Incentive Program. This new program would allow property owners to reduce their millage rate by 50% for up to four years if they repair and upgrade the property, or one year […]

    August 30, 2019 published by Edna Ruiz

  • S. Wade McCord, Tax Commissioner, to hold Subsequent Tax Sales on September 3
    To help our community reduce blight, S. Wade McCord, Tax Commissioner will hold a Subsequent Tax Sale on September 3, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. at the Macon State Farmers’ Market (2055 Eisenhower Pkwy.) in Building B. The opening bid for these properties will be $400, and everyone will have to register in order to bid.  The sale […]

    August 23, 2019 published by Edna Ruiz

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