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Shirley Sessions, Mayor Pro Tem
Eddie Crone
Mallory Pearce
Wanda Doyle
Paul Wolff
Kathryn Williams
CITY OF TYBEE ISLAND
City Manager
Diane Schleicher
Clerk of Council
Vivian Woods
City Attorney
Edward M. Hughes
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Tybee Island Downtown Construction Update
Tybee Island, Ga. – (December 13, 2007) The facelift for Tybee’s downtown area on Tybrisa
Street and the Strand continues, with the construction team beating their construction schedule
by as much as three weeks. Each night, the crew ensures that the south parking lot by the
Strand has parking spaces cleared and available for visitors to the area bars and restaurants, and
parking in this lot is free during the construction project. All of the east-west through streets,
except for Tybrisa, are also cleared for local traffic so that residents can reach their homes in the
neighborhood as well. Sidewalk access is available to all businesses during normal business
hours, to allow customers entrance to any and all shops.
Tybee will host a fireworks celebration on New Year’s Eve that is expected to be an outstanding
event. Parking will remain available in the parking lot just north of the Parker Pier and Pavilion,
as it is throughout the construction, so that revelers will have a convenient place to come to
enjoy what promises to be an exciting evening. Restaurants and entertainment venues are
nearby the Pier as well as elsewhere on the Island and for those who wish to make the evening
special, there are several hotels and bed and breakfasts nearby, as well as the Tybee Shuttle to
make sure no one needs to drive unsafely!
In weekly status update meetings, City staff and concerned business owners and residents
exchange concerns and bring the best, proactive ideas to improve what all agree is a difficult
situation. In response to these concerns, temporary lighting is now running in the evening to
illuminate the parking area after the work crews depart for the day. After surveys and planning
sessions that have taken place over the last several years, citizens continue to provide feedback
during the project which the City is incorporating into plans and that will end up improving the
final results for all parties.
Once this effort is complete, the new look will provide a beautifully enhanced atmosphere to the
neighborhood, as well as providing easier and less costly access when infrastructure repairs are
required, improved storm water runoff, and more environmentally friendly lighting.
The City’s website hosts a continually updated posting about the current status of this
construction project. Go to www.cityoftybee.org and look for “Tybrisa Update”.
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Attachment: Architectural concept sketches - TybrisaViews.jpg