Oconee County Issues First Building Permits For Falls Of Oconee Complex Opposite Athens Ridge

The Oconee County Code Enforcement Office on Friday issued building permits for three of the five buildings to make up The Falls of Oconee speciality retail center on Old Macon Highway opposite the Athens Ridge student housing complex.

The permits are for the shells of the three buildings only and give no indication of how the buildings will be used.

Promotional materials for the 4.7-acre center on its web site indicate the developer, Athens Ridge Commercial Properties LLC of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., is hoping to have restaurants, shops and offices in the complex.

Those materials indicate that a second phase of the complex is planned for across Old Macon Highway from the site being developed at present. That second phase will be 9.7 acres and will abut the Athens Ridge student housing complex.

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