Riverview Landing Annexation, Re-Zoning Approved

The Smyrna City Council unanimously voted to annex 82 acres of land along the Chattahoochee River into the city limits and approved a city-appropriate rezoning during their Monday evening meeting.

The land, which will become the new Riverview Landing mixed-use development, is adjacent to several long-standing industrial businesses and these business owners were at the meeting to express their desires to be good neighbors, but also to ask that the city remember them as well.

According to the Marietta Daily Journal, once the 10-year construction project is finished, the Riverview Landing development is slated to have 1,700 additional households and cost around $300 million to complete.

The price tag will include some road improvements along Riverview Road and Veterans Memorial Highway not covered in the 2011 SPLOST.

Councilman Ron Fennel, who told his constituents in Ward 7 during last week's town hall on the Riverview Landing development that, "Smyrna's been discovered," said during Monday's meeting that he was excited about the project and what it means to the city.

Walter Brown of Jamestown Properties, Riverview Landing's developer, said last week that if everything went according to schedule, construction on the first buildings on the site would begin in the summer of 2014, with an anticipated ribbon cutting in the summer of 2015.