Hixson residents listen to developer Duane Horton Monday at the North River Civic Center.
Hixson developmentStormwater and traffic problems would be mitigated or even improved by a proposed Hamilton Place mall-sized development on Highway 153 near U.S. Highway 27, the developer said at a community meeting Monday night.
Duane Horton, a developer with Scenic Land Co., pledged to contain any rain runoff and limit traffic problems from his proposed retail, office and apartment complex.
“There are going to be developments any time you have a growing community,” he told about 200 area residents at Monday’s meeting. “It’s a matter of making those developments the best that they can be.”
The area will be developed eventually, he said, either through a number of disjointed projects or this single cohesive plan.
The plans unveiled by Horton include a 15-building apartment complex, space for a large office campus, and nearly a dozen retail buildings for stores and commercial businesses. Horton’s proposed project would have only two entrances off Highway 153 to help limit traffic congestion.