The Metropolitan Area Planning Commission is to view plans for a mixed-use development on Hilltop in Jonesboro. The 201-acre project is called Greensborough Village. The Sun Newspaper reports the project would consist of single family, multifamily, commercial and institutional development. The plan reportedly includes 200 single-family lots on the north and south sides of Greensboro road, as well as commercial development and multifamily housing. Commercial development is expected to be located closer to East Johnson Avenue. Jonesboro businessman Mickey Seeman will present plans tomorrow night, and is expected to request the entire property be zoned to a new category that would be called Town Center Overlay District. If approved by the Planning Commission, the zoning request would have to go before the Jonesboro City Council for final approval. If approval is gained, there is no word as to when construction on the projects would start.
Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.