The 165-acre joint venture is planned for 500,000 sf of class A office space, a 200-room Hilton Hotel, a high-tech executive conference center, sports complex, new science center, student housing and a multi-modal and passenger rail station. Gateway Village in Morrow and Lake City will connect Clayton College & State University with the nearby 146-acre Reynolds Nature Preserve.
The first tenants are already in place. The National Archives and Records Administration has relocated its Southeast Regional Archives building from East Point to a stand-alone building at 5780 Jonesboro Rd. in Gateway Village, area brokers following the venture tell GlobeSt.com. The national archives is adjacent to the state archives building that opened in May 2004. An estimated 70,000 visitors and researchers are expected to visit the archives buildings annually, according to Clayton State University officials.
Gateway Village partners are Clayton State, the Economic Development Authority of Clayton County, the cities of Morrow and Lake City and the University Financing Foundation, a nonprofit organization established to finance real estate ventures for the benefit of college and universities.
Business in the Gateway Village's tax base has already risen to $100 million from under $10 million in previous years, according to Morrow officials.
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