Downtown Development is Getting Ready for New Additions

To many right now it looks like a parking garage, but Warren County economic officials say it's much more.

"It's really a whole retail and commercial development that's got great parking," said Warren County Economic Development Official Doug Gorman.

Development efforts for the new structure are being divided up into two phases.

"Retail on the first floor, second, third, and fourth floor of office space, class a office space. It's going to be built on the backside of the existing parking structure facing the Hot Rods stadium and coming around to Seventh Street. Phase B will be on College Street and wrapping around the rest of the parking structure," said Gorman.

With all of the downtown development including the Hot Rods and SKyPAC officials see this new project as a one way street forward.

"Of course we had that goal of 150 million dollars to be able to have those TIF funds from the state flow back to Bowling Green, but really is never ending. I think it's a great step, but there is going to me more and more development that happens, and positive growth for Bowling Green and Warren County and things that people can be proud of," said Gorman.

Another part of this new structure is the hope for housing and more people moving downtown.

"This development brings some retail down here that's much needed to go along with the existing retail that's down here. It's just the next piece of the puzzle to get people to relocate, but to live in downtown Bowling Green," said Gorman.

Right now, it's dark and unfinished, but developers hope for more traffic to continue boosting downtown.

Gorman said they're still working out the details on phase B, but you could possibly see retail business in the new structure as early as October of this year.

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Downtown Development is Getting Ready for New Additions