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More than 2,400 housing units under development in Statesboro city limits
Pending annexation requests will add 400 more
Sunfield Station
A construction crew installs windows on a house in the new Sunfield Station subdivision. (SCOTT BRYANT/Herald file)
At least 2,427 planned housing units — including 290 student apartments (with up to 691 beds) in a multistory building beside the Georgia Southern campus, upwards of 300 apartments elsewhere in Statesboro, 1,004 townhomes and 690 single-family homes in subdivisions mostly on the edges of town — were in various stages of city-OK'd development as of mid-October. "Now, this does not include small developments of less than 20 (units each)," said city Planning and Development Director Kathy Field. "The list would just get too long." Delivering an informal report, compiled with input from Planning and Housing Administrator Justin Williams, to the mayor and council during an Oct. 17 work session, Field noted that her staff was aware of another 437 single-family and townhome units in two "upcoming projects," requiring annexation into the city. Those two pending projects would bring the total to 2,823 units. "You're very close to 3,000 units. So that's what we're seeing," Field said. "Now, it's not all going to happen at once.
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