A Decatur manufacturing district?  Food carts in city parks?  A Decatur business incubator space?

You betcha.  Here’s the “to-do list” for goal #2 in Decatur’s proposed list of Strategic Plan projects…

Goal 2: Encourage a diversity of business types with particular focus on small businesses and businesses that provide daily needs.

Decatur is known throughout the region for its lively mix of stores and restaurants, especially in and around the Square, but needs to expand retail options to provide more variety and price points.  Current employment opportunities within the city are limited. to remedy this, Decatur should focus on attracting office and employment uses that are compatible with the community’s vision.

Task 2a: Target businesses, especially office users, by creating a list of desired business types, relevant data to distribute to potential businesses, and a recruitment strategy.

Task 2b: Continue to focus marketing and advertising efforts designed to support and enhance the “Decatur brand,” to attract quality
new business that meet the community’s vision, and to assure the success of existing businesses.

Task 2c: Identify available areas for light manufacturing and market them to potential businesses.

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Patch reports that the Jennifer Garner movie “Odd Life of Timothy Green” will be filming at the vacant Forrest Hills Elementary School at the end of Forrest Boulevard, near Avondale Park, today through next Monday.

According to Patch, Garner sightings were reported this past weekend at the Botanical Gardens and at South City Kitchen, where she was seen with hubby Ben Affleck.

In case you haven’t seen these comments yet, Old Man Potter alerted us to remodeling at Decatur’s downtown Taco Mac this summer, and Nittany313 filled us in on the details…

The majority of the Taco Mac work is going to be done overnight so there will only be a few weeks where it may be completely closed. There are still multiple floorplans being reviewed but there is some discussion of moving the bar. Instead of being at the back of the restaurant they may turn it so that the bar runs perpendicular with the wall nearest Sawicki’s. This would be similar to their layouts at Johns Creek and Duluth but with a much smaller footprint.

How about adding an addition that expands over the parking lot?  I kid…sort of.