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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Two Rivers Company (TRC) Board of Directors met Thursday, March 26 and voted unanimously to request Mayor McMillan’s office turn over designs from the Hodgson and Douglas study for the area of property in Clarksville where Bank of America was formerly located.

The area is surrounded by Main, Legion, Second and Third Streets downtown. The TRC Board is a part of the City of Clarksville that works to revitalize areas of downtown and along the riverfront.

The plans have not yet been adopted or approved by the Mayor or City Council.

After much controversy surrounding the plans, they were released Thursday and can be viewed below:

Hodgson and Douglas 1
Hodgson and Douglas 2

In an email to the City Council and TRC executive director Brenda Kelley, Mayor Kim McMillan said the following:

“I am hereby directing you to provide by noon tomorrow whatever it is to me, the City Council, the TRC, the news media and anyone else who shows an interest. The only caveat is that whoever you provide this information to needs to know that it has not been seen or reviewed by the Mayor or the City Council first and It is not a ‘plan or study’ that has been adopted or approved by the Mayor or City Council, the only body with the authority and obligation to spend taxpayer money.”

First Presbyterian Church has scheduled a public forum to discuss the proposal, saying that Mayor Kim McMillan was invited to attend make any appropriate remarks.

In another email, McMillan said she “had no prior knowledge of or any participation in the scheduling of a public forum regarding ‘the proposal to build a civic square on the former Bank of America property in downtown Clarksville.'”

The email continued: “I received an email from Rev. Gregory Glover late on Tuesday, March 17, immediately before having to attend the RJ Corman bridge lighting ceremony on Riverside Drive, inviting me to a forum that had already been scheduled and requesting to know how much time should be allotted for my remarks. I contacted Rev. Glover, as soon as possible on Wednesday, March 18, to let him know that I had no knowledge of any documented “proposal to build a civic square” and that I was unavailable on April 9, the day he had scheduled me to speak.

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