{"id":1949697,"date":"2025-08-08T16:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1949697"},"modified":"2025-08-08T16:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:41:08","slug":"proposed-entertainment-complex-in-lee-county-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/proposed-entertainment-complex-in-lee-county-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed entertainment complex in Lee County dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LEE COUNTY, Ga. (WALB) &#8211; Plans to build an entertainment complex in Lee County have officially been shelved. Instead, county leaders say the property will be used for a long-anticipated hospital project that\u2019s been in the works for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Lee County Development Authority, the more than 160-acre site located off Ledo Road near Grand Island may one day be the future home of a hospital and additional commercial developments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The hospital project was first introduced in 2016 but has faced multiple hurdles, including the need for a state-issued certificate of need. That major roadblock began to ease earlier this year when the Georgia Senate passed legislation in March 2024 to loosen restrictions on healthcare facility permits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The shift in plans comes after the contract for the previously proposed \u201cGrand Island Park\u201d entertainment development expired. The Development Authority board then chose to go in a different direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When asked whether land surveys have begun specifically for the hospital, officials said they could not give a definitive answer due to the number of moving parts involved. However, they emphasized that progress is being made and they\u2019re hoping to make that known to the public soon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Developers had also been eyeing property between Kohl\u2019s and the AMC Theater across from Grand Island for a potential skating rink. However, those plans fell through as part of the land is owned by Kohl\u2019s, who can decide what can or can\u2019t go there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><i>This is a developing story. 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(WALB) &#8211; Plans to build an entertainment complex in Lee County have officially been shelved. Instead, county leaders say the property will be used for a long-anticipated hospital project that\u2019s been in the works for nearly a decade. According to the Lee County Development Authority, the more than 160-acre site located off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[309817,340881,28546,305421,25162,21741,37767,313122,318648,340884,305436,21738,308692,340882,24047,340883],"class_list":["post-1949697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-amc","tag-complex","tag-county","tag-dead","tag-development","tag-entertainment","tag-grand","tag-hospital","tag-island","tag-kohls","tag-lee","tag-news","tag-park","tag-proposed","tag-theater","tag-walb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}