https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/Published Updates from Urban Savannah.en-ushttps://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/portman-files-plans-for-2-million-square-feet-of-warehouses-across-bryan/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/portman-files-plans-for-2-million-square-feet-of-warehouses-across-bryan/Bryan County filed Georgia DRI 4758 for Portman Industrial's Warner Tract proposal on September 21.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/tybee-island-s-federal-beach-renourishment-funding-once-cut-is-restored/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/tybee-island-s-federal-beach-renourishment-funding-once-cut-is-restored/Federal officials restored $12 million for Tybee Island’s next beach-renourishment cycle after the project was left out of the Army Corps work plan.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/the-bohemian-on-the-riverfront-reopens-as-hotel-orielle-after-a-full-ren/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/the-bohemian-on-the-riverfront-reopens-as-hotel-orielle-after-a-full-ren/The Bohemian Hotel Savannah Riverfront reopened in early September as Hotel Orielle, a 75-room Autograph Collection hotel on Bay Street now run by Davidson Hospitality, with a new rooftop bar and a Lowcountry seafood restaurant.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/the-1912-manger-building-reopens-as-recess-hotel-and-club-with-the-city/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/the-1912-manger-building-reopens-as-recess-hotel-and-club-with-the-city/Left Lane has turned the century-old Manger building on Johnson Square into Recess Hotel and Club, a 221-key hotel opening this fall with a French brasserie, a members' clubhouse and a rooftop pool billed as the highest in Savannah.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/starland-village-lines-up-seven-new-murals-for-its-first-starland-soul-f/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/starland-village-lines-up-seven-new-murals-for-its-first-starland-soul-f/Starland Village will add seven murals by Savannah artists between October 28 and November 6, capping its first Starland Soul Mural Fest with a public celebration on the final day.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/effingham-pauses-openai-s-data-center-and-starts-writing-rules-to-limit/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/effingham-pauses-openai-s-data-center-and-starts-writing-rules-to-limit/Effingham County pulled the Project Camellia site plan from its September agenda and told staff to draft binding limits, days before a state report put the data center's power demand at 3,210 megawatts, more than both new reactors at Plant Vogtle combined.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/chatham-county-pauses-large-data-centers-for-155-days/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/chatham-county-pauses-large-data-centers-for-155-days/County commissioners paused new large-scale data centers in unincorporated Chatham while staff studies land-use, utility and public-health rules.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/warnock-calls-for-a-statewide-pause-on-new-data-centers/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/warnock-calls-for-a-statewide-pause-on-new-data-centers/After touring the OpenAI site in Effingham County, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock called for a statewide moratorium on new data center construction unless projects meet strict conditions.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/the-new-owners-of-the-downtown-hyatt-land-a-123-million-loan-as-the-city/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/the-new-owners-of-the-downtown-hyatt-land-a-123-million-loan-as-the-city/A Certares and Clearview joint venture that bought the 351-room Hyatt Regency Savannah financed the deal with a $123.2 million loan from Goldman Sachs, arranged by JLL, as the city pushes to reopen the public riverfront passage the hotel was built over in 1981.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/savannah-s-mayor-questions-a-margaritaville-hotel-downtown-but-says-the/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/savannah-s-mayor-questions-a-margaritaville-hotel-downtown-but-says-the/Mayor Van Johnson says he is not sure Margaritaville fits downtown, but acknowledges the city cannot block the conversion of the two-year-old Ann Street Lofts apartments at 111 Ann Street into a 230-room hotel.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/savannah-s-155-day-pause-on-large-data-centers-is-now-in-effect/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/savannah-s-155-day-pause-on-large-data-centers-is-now-in-effect/The Savannah City Council's 155-day moratorium, blocking approval of any data center drawing 10 megawatts or more, is in force while staff study the strain on water, power and roads and write permanent rules.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/savannah-floats-homes-a-hotel-and-a-restored-roundhouse-for-its-railroad/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/savannah-floats-homes-a-hotel-and-a-restored-roundhouse-for-its-railroad/A city-commissioned RCLCO study recommends adding apartments, an 80-to-100-room hotel and a restored roundhouse across five city-owned parcels around the railroad museums west of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/savannah-chatham-schools-hire-a-manager-to-run-a-705-million-school-buil/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/savannah-chatham-schools-hire-a-manager-to-run-a-705-million-school-buil/The Savannah-Chatham County school board approved a five-year contract worth up to $18.95 million with Hoar Program Management to oversee its ESPLOST V capital program of about $705 million.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/lane-closures-begin-on-the-talmadge-bridge-for-survey-work-ahead-of-cabl/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/lane-closures-begin-on-the-talmadge-bridge-for-survey-work-ahead-of-cabl/GDOT contractors will run intermittent single-lane closures on the Talmadge Memorial Bridge on weekdays from Sept. 10 to 25 to survey the span before replacing its cables.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/housing-authority-reclaims-the-augusta-avenue-tract-ending-a-shelter-pla/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/housing-authority-reclaims-the-augusta-avenue-tract-ending-a-shelter-pla/The Housing Authority of Savannah's board refused to extend the Salvation Army's agreement for 2305 Augusta Avenue and moved to take the west-side property back, halting a proposed 200-person transitional shelter beside the 1859 Weeping Time auction grounds.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/colonial-terminals-opens-its-foundation-3-breakbulk-terminal-on-the-sava/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/colonial-terminals-opens-its-foundation-3-breakbulk-terminal-on-the-sava/Colonial Terminals began operating Foundation 3, a roughly 25-acre multimodal breakbulk terminal on the Savannah River with an 810-foot dock, more than 14,000 feet of rail and 130,000 square feet of warehouse space.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/state-completes-its-regional-impact-review-of-openai-s-20b-effingham-cou/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/state-completes-its-regional-impact-review-of-openai-s-20b-effingham-cou/Georgia's Development of Regional Impact review of Project Camellia, OpenAI's proposed data-center campus in Effingham County, is now complete on the state's own tracking system: the Coastal Georgia Regional Development Commission issued its finding Sept. 1, 2026, with the process marked complete as of Sept. 6.Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/developer-files-state-regional-impact-application-for-669-acre-salzburg/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/developer-files-state-regional-impact-application-for-669-acre-salzburg/A developer filed a state Development of Regional Impact application for a 669-acre mixed-use community on Midland Road and Highway 30 in unincorporated Effingham County, proposing about 1,000 homes, a public school, and roughly 300,000 square feet of commercial space.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/scad-buys-a-fourth-louisville-road-property-for-7-3m-as-its-film-studio/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/scad-buys-a-fourth-louisville-road-property-for-7-3m-as-its-film-studio/SCAD paid $7.3 million for a former freight depot at 1123 Louisville Road, its fourth Louisville Road-area purchase since December 2025 as it builds out its film studio campus.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/savannah-s-new-stormwater-fee-starts-showing-up-on-utility-bills/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/savannah-s-new-stormwater-fee-starts-showing-up-on-utility-bills/Savannah's stormwater utility fee, roughly $4.75 a month for a typical household and worth an estimated $8-9 million a year, began appearing on water bills Sept. 1, priced by how much impervious surface a property has.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/savannah-puts-a-155-day-hold-on-large-data-centers-as-effingham-s-20b-op/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/savannah-puts-a-155-day-hold-on-large-data-centers-as-effingham-s-20b-op/City Council froze new large-load data centers for 155 days to rewrite zoning rules, the same week Georgia regulators cleared the power contract for OpenAI's $20 billion Project Camellia campus in neighboring Effingham County.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/mpc-recommends-up-to-1-280-homes-and-a-resort-district-for-a-100-acre-st/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/mpc-recommends-up-to-1-280-homes-and-a-resort-district-for-a-100-acre-st/Planners unanimously recommended amending the 2004 Savannah Harbor master plan to allow up to 1,280 residential units plus hotels, restaurants and retail on roughly 100 acres of undeveloped Hutchinson Island; Savannah City Council still has to approve it.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/hyatt-regency-savannah-trades-for-158m-in-certares-clearview-joint-ventu/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/hyatt-regency-savannah-trades-for-158m-in-certares-clearview-joint-ventu/JLL arranged a Goldman Sachs Alternatives floating-rate loan backing a Certares Real Estate Management/Clearview Hotel Capital joint venture's $158 million purchase of the 351-key riverfront Hyatt Regency Savannah.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/dulany-s-226-acre-seapoint-marine-terminal-keeps-moving-toward-construct/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/dulany-s-226-acre-seapoint-marine-terminal-keeps-moving-toward-construct/Michels Corporation has the progressive design-build contract for SeaPoint's planned private marine terminal, with construction targeted to begin in 2027.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/savannah-begins-removing-the-mlk-jr-civic-center-arena-the-first-step-to/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/savannah-begins-removing-the-mlk-jr-civic-center-arena-the-first-step-to/The city kicked off a $10.9 million project to demolish the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Arena by hand, the opening move in a redevelopment that is set to bring 200-300 housing units and 45,000 square feet of retail to the 7-acre downtown site.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/a-downtown-bank-clears-its-final-historic-district-hurdle-to-replace-a-s/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/a-downtown-bank-clears-its-final-historic-district-hurdle-to-replace-a-s/Queensborough National Bank & Trust won final Historic District Board of Review approval for a four-story office and bank building at Broughton and Habersham streets, after a preservation group spent months pushing back on the design's glass and setbacks.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/the-second-building-at-111-ann-st-files-to-become-a-hotel/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/the-second-building-at-111-ann-st-files-to-become-a-hotel/Tidal Real Estate Partners has filed permits to convert the 232-unit Ann Street Lofts into a hotel, following its sister building at 110 Ann St., which reopened as Ann Savannah by Marriott Bonvoy last year.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/the-port-opened-its-126-million-brampton-road-connector-and-closed-the-y/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/the-port-opened-its-126-million-brampton-road-connector-and-closed-the-y/Georgia DOT and the Georgia Ports Authority opened the Brampton Road Connector on July 15, the last piece of a 12-year, $600 million freight-corridor buildout, as the port closed the fiscal year at 5.67 million containers.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/international-paper-puts-735-riverfront-acres-including-its-shuttered-mi/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/international-paper-puts-735-riverfront-acres-including-its-shuttered-mi/International Paper has formally listed the 400-acre mill site plus 335 acres across the river for redevelopment, five months after closing a plant that ran for 90 years and employed 800 people.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/gdot-s-public-comment-period-on-atlanta-to-savannah-rail-closes-august-6/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/gdot-s-public-comment-period-on-atlanta-to-savannah-rail-closes-august-6/Georgia's DOT is studying five possible routes for intercity passenger rail between Atlanta and Savannah, with technical and environmental analysis running through 2026 and no construction timeline yet.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/effingham-signed-openai-s-tax-break-under-an-nda-five-months-before-the/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/effingham-signed-openai-s-tax-break-under-an-nda-five-months-before-the/Records show Effingham's economic development officials negotiated OpenAI's $20 billion data center tax break under a non-disclosure agreement starting in February, and the public wasn't told until the day after the county signed.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/downtown-apartments-are-becoming-a-margaritaville-hotel/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/downtown-apartments-are-becoming-a-margaritaville-hotel/Tidal Real Estate Partners is converting the 232-unit Ann Street Lofts at 111 Ann St. into a 230-room Margaritaville Hotel, backed by a $113 million loan from Peachtree Group.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/an-apartment-site-on-east-63rd-street-reaches-its-last-public-step/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/an-apartment-site-on-east-63rd-street-reaches-its-last-public-step/The site plan for the Reuben Clark apartments went before the planning board.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/who-pays-for-the-tradeport-east-wastewater-plant/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/who-pays-for-the-tradeport-east-wastewater-plant/A treatment plant serving industrial growth in Liberty County drew more than 200 people to a meeting, and the bill is still unsettled.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/three-blocks-ask-to-allow-shops-where-only-houses-are-permitted/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/three-blocks-ask-to-allow-shops-where-only-houses-are-permitted/Requests on Abercorn Street, East 40th Street and White Bluff Road would each let businesses open on a residential block.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/the-downtown-hyatt-has-a-new-owner-and-the-city-wants-its-riverfront-pas/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/the-downtown-hyatt-has-a-new-owner-and-the-city-wants-its-riverfront-pas/The hotel was built over a public route to River Street in 1981. A sale is the first opening in decades to reopen that argument.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/fencing-goes-up-at-the-civic-center-site-with-300-years-of-its-history-o/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/fencing-goes-up-at-the-civic-center-site-with-300-years-of-its-history-o/New panels around the redevelopment site trace what stood on the ground before it.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/a-new-public-map-counts-nearly-700-warehouses-around-savannah/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/a-new-public-map-counts-nearly-700-warehouses-around-savannah/Environmental groups built a tool showing where the region's warehouses are, and tie the growth to the port.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/336-unit-675-morgan-community-breaks-ground-at-savannah-highlands/https://savannah.theurbanmediagroup.com/updates/336-unit-675-morgan-community-breaks-ground-at-savannah-highlands/Manor Park Ventures and Brook Farm Group broke ground on 675 Morgan, a 336-unit apartment community on the only multifamily-zoned parcel inside the Savannah Highlands master-planned community.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000