The Kennesaw City Council adopted on Nov. 5 the Cherokee Street Corridor Urban Redevelopment Plan to help redevelop and revitalize this underdeveloped part of the city.

The result is to support the proposed Kennesaw Opportunity Zone and possible additional future Opportunity Zone applications, according to the resolution.

This Urban Redevelopment Plan is intended to address areas in need of redevelopment and revitalization due to disinvestment and high rates of vacancy.

Kennesaw’s goal in creating this plan is to add the incentive of the Opportunity Zone program to other incentives and economic development tools available “to foster the redevelopment and revitalization of these vital but underdeveloped parts of the city.”

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Laurence Walker, a volunteer with the Cajun Navy Relief, left, takes two volunteers out on his boat on Lake Oconee to search for Gary Jones, Tuesday, February, 18, 2025, in Eatonton, Ga. The Putnam County sheriff is investigating and searching after Spelman College instructor Joycelyn Nicole Wilson and an Atlanta private school coach Gary Jones went missing on Lake Oconee over a week ago, Saturday Feb. 8th. The body of Wilson was found Sunday, Feb. 9th and Jones has not been found. (Jason Getz / AJC)

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