Business to Expand in Five Points

Suska to take over part of the space housing the laudromat.

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What Should Go Here?

Got any ideas for re-developing the abandoned gas station at Lumpkin and Woodrow?

  The Clink-o-co gas station on Lumpkin Street in Five Points has been empty for years.  What should go in this excellent location? How should the property be re-developed? Besides the convenience store, the land also includes a former car wash. So what would you like to see in the space? A bagel shop? a bakery? a doggie day care? A hardware/florist combo? Some good ideas for adapting and reusing older properties come to fruition.  What do you think? Tell us in the comments. 

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Rebecca McCarthy

10:34 am on Monday, June 4, 2012

Sara, I love the idea of adding a noodle shop to the mix.   more ›

Lost Pygmy Goat Finds Big Response in Athens, Ga.

His owners found the lost little goat in Five Points.

  He’s cute, he’s huggable, he’s even housetrained—or at least porch trained. And now, he's back with his owners. He’s an adorable pygmy goat that was waiting in the fenced backyard of a Milledge Terrace house for someone to claim him. And someone did. His owners. Vet school student Elizabeth Dale said she was coming home Monday evening from Gainesville, where she’s doing her senior rotations, when she saw police cars on her street. Turns out an ACC Police officer had pursued a male pygmy goat from Milledge Heights down to the end of Milledge Terrace, heading toward the upper entrance to the Birchmore Trail. When the panicked goat was at last corralled in a neighbor’s yard, Dale picked him up—he weighs only about 20 pounds—and carried him …

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Holidays Arrive in Five Points

Despite the balmy weather, there was lots of holiday spirit and ho, ho, ho-ing during Sunday's open house.

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The Burst Bubble

Real estate: Down but not out in Athens.

It’s a sign of the times. Vacant businesses. For sale signs. Parking lots with weeds pushing through the cracks. There’s no denying it. The real estate market is not thriving in Athens. Reports of its death, however, have been greatly exaggerated. While other markets have been in freefall, average residential values in Athens sagged only slightly during the last five years, from $62,184 to $58,990, according to data recently released to Athens Patch by the Athens-Clarke Tax Assessors Office.  Stagnant property values shrink government coffers and lead to cutbacks in public expenditures, but local experts agree the outlook here is less bleak than other parts of the country. "Athens is not dead,” Realtor Don Sumner said. “What you find are …

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