Murfreesboro City Manager Darren Gore:
- Murfreesboro Water & Sewer are now in the new office at the corner of Robert Rose Drive and Gateway Blvd. Extension.
- Daylighting of Town Creek--the contract has been approved.
- Discussion of the Cherry Lane extension from the Segal Soccer Parks to I-840.
- UPDATE: Keystone Development (massive business, office, residential project on Broad Street (all of the former Murfreesboro Police facilities on that property are vacant, old City Hall, and Murfreesboro Water & Sewer buildings are all vacant. Earlier this month, Mayor McFarland indicated actual work on the project would begin in February--is that still on the calendar.
- City Manager Gore explained that the City Council's Workshop on Feb. 13, 2025 will focus on changes in the Keystone Development with the hotel development being pulled out of the initial phase. Although it is pulled out, it must still be included in the plans. The workshop will also include parking for the Keystone Project, including a 715 space garage where the old police department was located. This multi-level structure would serve the retail, residential and hotel parking needs.
- UPDATE: 1 East College LLC development has not been progressing and the City is negotiating with the developers who purchased the land from the City to purchase it back. The City has removed the TIF's (Tax Increment Financing) from the agreement.
- Listener asked if all was well with the Buc-ee's project, as they have seen other Buc-ee developments begin, be completed and open in the time they have been working on the Murfreesboro site. City Manager Gore discussed the many TDOT and other government improvements around that construction that will make it even better for Buc-ee's.
- This week's Murfreesboro City Council and Workshop (1/30/2025) will focus on Murfreesboro Parks & Recreation Department. This includes the new City $16.4-million park on the west side of town (Veterans Park), as well as parking improvements and locating a splash pad at Patterson Park, and major ball field and parking improvements at the Old Fort Park.
