SPOTLIGHT ON HOGANSVILLE
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FROM THE DESK OF THE CITY MANAGER
ven with the imposed challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Hogansville has enjoyed a great 2021 and completed several projects providing benefits to our amazing local residents and businesses. These projects included moving into a new City Hall, completion of Phase V of our Tower Trail project, beach rehabilitation at Lake Jimmy Jackson, record attendance at the 23rd Annual Hummingbird Festival, the reopening of The Grand Hotel, paving of the roads in Myrtle Hill Cemetery, repaving of Pine Street, commencement of work on Isaiah Lofton Park, restructuring of our much maligned debt, reopening of businesses, and more! While the City of Hogansville will never go back to a “sleepy little town,” we are certainly planning for 2022 to be monumental year for the City in terms of growth and development with a focus on maintaining our character while being an attractive place for businesses to locate and families to be raised. There are not many times where one can say that they are going to witness a city’s trajectory being changed in relatively short order. Now is that time in Hogansville! 2022 will be the year that people begin to take notice of our amazing city. While 2021 is ending, we are preparing to go into the next year watching businesses open throughout the city, homes being built at a record pace, improvements (roughly $6 million worth!) to our infrastructure to accommodate not only those that live here but also those that will call Hogansville home in the immediate future, complete rehabilitation of our 3,200 person amphitheater, commencement of our 2021 CDBG ($1 million) grant for water system improvements, opening of our multipurpose City Annex building, and the commencement (finally!) of our project to reopen The Royal Theater, a project decades in the making. All that being said for 2022, much publicity will be given to our residential development. During 2021, the city
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annexed roughly 600 acres into the city for the main purpose of residential development. It is projected that Hogansville will see an additional 3,000 residential units within the next decade and 2022 will set the tone for those developments and residential units being built. The annual revenue generated from these units will provide the city the ability to continue to increase necessary staff, complete additional projects throughout the city, and attract more retail development to support our new residents. I am proud to be the City Manager for the City of Hogansville during this great time in its history. We have a great staff, great city, and invite everyone to come visit us. Jonathan Lynn
