Business View Magazine | November 2019

285 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 site. We issued an RFP at the beginning of the year for a development partner on those lots and we’re going to be announcing, soon, that we have selected our development partner for a mixed- use development to go on each site that will have 15,000 square feet of retail and about 350 market- rate unit apartments.” Another project, which just had its ribbon cutting, consists of 64,000 square feet of Class A office space, and was built on a formerly-owned city lot in the middle of downtown. “We have a regional construction company, Carroll Daniel Construction, that has about 200 employees that they want to centrally locate in downtown Gainesville,” Lackey says. “So, we’ll have 200 employees downtown, which will be wonderful for our merchants and restaurants.” Downtown Gainesville has long been a focus of the city’s administrations, past and present. “We have an historic downtown square and we also have several blocks around that square that we consider our downtown,” explains Community GA INESV I LLE , GEORGI A Carroll Daniel Construction