Augusta’s mayor wants the city to get rolling on the river.
Standing in front of the city’s shabby Boathouse Community Center on Riverfront Drive on Friday, Garnett Johnson announced a proposed redevelopment of Riverwalk Augusta into a Savannah River showpiece to help stoke tourism and economic development.
The money is there, he said – an estimated $22 million through a renewed 1-cent special-purpose local option sales tax and re-allocation of funds from another development project that went bust. But the proposal also needs voters’ approval when the penny tax appears on the ballot later this year…