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Lake Martin Video: Highway 63 Construction North of Kowaliga Bridge
ALDOT has Highway 63 under heavy construction. I shot this video today, about a mile north of Lake Martin’s Kowaliga Bridge. It’s across the road from where Windermere Road intersects Highway 63, aka Our Children’s Highway. The construction zone stretches from Russell Crossroads (location of Catherine’s and the Springhouse) south to just below Windermere Road. As of this writing, the highway is passable, you just need to slow down a bit.
I think that Russell Lands is also using this opportunity to create a golf cart path that will go under the highway. The theory is that you would be able to walk, jog, etc. continuously from The Ridge Club to Willow Point.
Construction Photos of Russell Crossroads
Russell Lands is building Russell Crossroads – that will be, as they put it, “a ‘town center’ in the heart of the Russell Lands family of developments on 44,000 acre Lake Martin.”
It is being built on Highway 63, just north of Windermere Road. The town center will serve as resource for the neighborhoods of The Ridge, Windermere, Windover, Trillium, Willow Point, and for that matter, anywhere else on Lake Martin. Judging from their plans, and the players that they have committed, my candid take is that this will be very good for the Lake Martin community. There will be a high end grocery called Catherine’s Market, which will also have a deli. The first phase will also include The Springhouse Restaurant – “fine dining in a casual atmosphere.” Future plans call for a Hot and Hot Restaurant.
If I understand their overall plan correctly, in the future all of their area developments mentioned above (except Trillium) will be connected by a trail system so that one could jog, bike, or ride a golf cart to Russell Crossroads, and also go back and forth in between each neighborhood.
I snapped some photos a couple of weeks ago. They are already out of date. I drove by a couple of days ago and saw that they had the roofs on Catherine’s Market and the Springhouse Restaurant. But I will post these here anyway.
The Real Estate Sales office and Discovery Center:
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| Sales Office |
Here is the future Catherine’s Market:
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| Catherine’s Market |
And here is one of the future Springhouse Restaurant:
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| Springhouse Restaurant |
