The Colquitt Downtown Development Authority began phase one of rehabilitating a vacant 1930s-era gas station site, a genuinely tiny project, but a clean instance of the vacant-anchor playbook Plat Street outlined in Issue 2's "Vacant Anchor Problem" piece, executed by one of the smallest DDAs currently in the coverage universe. It's DDA-as-developer at the scale where the model carries the least financial risk.

Watch: The funding stack behind the rehab and the intended end use for the site.

Source: Fox 49, July 2026

Duplicate check: A useful small-scale counterpoint to Denver's DDDA mall acquisition (Issue 4), the same instrument, deployed three orders of magnitude apart.