Giant "retail destination" coming to Kingsland, GA

[vicupstate]

Why not just put it in Jax?? I mean Kingsbay?? people have to DRIVE all the way there? more sprawl?? Put it IN Jax not Near Jax.

uh...because the state of GEORGIA is the one offering the tax breaks!

Exactly.  Sembler is proposing to build the biggest shopping mall/center in SC in one of the poorest counties (Jasper). Albeit it is next to the wealthiest county (Beaufort), home of Hilton Head.  Still, Beaufort has only 130,000 residents and it will be miles from I-95.  The local government is providing over $100 mm in tax breaks, though. It sounds crazy to me, and so does this Kingsland project.   

[avonjax]

They talked about this tonight on the local news and they said the company was also considering locations in Chicago and Houston. I'm not so sure a mega-center of this size, according to the news it's a $500,000,000.00 project, would make sense in Kingsland. I don't think most northsiders will drive there.

[Ocklawaha]

Y'all are just too young to remember in the day's before Disney, we'd spend all summer skinning alligators and all winter skinning Yankee's... This project has NOTHING to do with Jacksonville, Kingsland, Kings Bay, St. Marys etc. except as a place to hire more $8 dollar an hour slaves. This whole project goes back to my first line, I-95, ABOVE the St. Augustine Outlets. As vacationers pour south on the superslab, they are looking to spend, play, and indulge every whim, and their pockets are loaded. Catch those southbound birds and you'll discover El Dorado (If however the time-travel article turns out to be truth, one of us should go and explain how we created El Dorado to one
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, I'm sure he'd like to know).  I'll even bet money it goes on the WEST SIDE of I-95, IE: SOUTHBOUND. Same game formula they used in the Gainesville Mall in North Texas, just below the Red River and Oklahoma Border, and I bet this same company is using on the new Razor Mall in Denton.


OCKLAWAHA