Milledgeville takes the “Knight Cities Challenge”

Several of the city’s civic and community organizations are brainstorming about how they can make Milledgeville a more vibrant place to live.

The rules of the Knight Challenge are that they have to come up ideas that create economic development projects, help the city’s community to connect and get involve.

Milledgeville Main Street Director, Carlee Schulte, says representatives from the Milledgeville-Baldwin County Chamber of Commerce, Live Healthy Baldwin, Bicycling Club of Milledgeville, Oconee River Greenway, and Georgia College are trying to win a share of five million dollars for the city.

“If we can think of things that are new and innovative and maybe don’t even cost that much,” says Schulte. “Then,I think we have more of a chance to make some neat and different changes to our community with these different ideas,”

The deadline to submit the Knight Cities Challenge application is Nov. 14. The winners will be announced in early 2015.