Public invited to give input on senior housing planned at historic Alexander IV

The public is invited to give input on a senior living center planned for the historic Alexander IV building at a meeting Dec. 4.

The hour-long meeting, set for 5 p.m., will take place ahead of the Dec. 11 presentation to the Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Board. It is one of several meetings that have taken place in the old building over the past two years.

Dover Development Corp., a Tennessee-based developer that specializes in converting historic buildings into senior housing, will present plans alongside Design Innovations Architects that will “appropriately preserve and restore the existing structure and build an architecturally compatible new wing,” according to a news release from the Historic Macon Foundation.

Work on building the 61-unit senior living center is expected to start early next year and could finish by the year’s end, the news release said.

The historic building fell in disrepair after long stretches of vacancy. It was declared surplus property by the Bibb County school board in 2013.

Two years later, it made the Historic Macon Foundation’s inaugural Fading Five list. The annual list aims to reverse the sometimes ill fate of Macon’s historic buildings.

This story was originally published November 27, 2017 at 7:38 PM with the headline "Public invited to give input on senior housing planned at historic Alexander IV."