Eleven new businesses will take part in a mass ribbon cutting in downtown Hogansville on Saturday, even as new businesses announce they are opening in the city.

After a number of years without a doctor, Hogansville soon will have two physicians. A LaGrange doctor has moved into an office at Hummingbird Station at East Main Street and Bass Cross Road. Dr. Srinivas R. Bramhadevi is board certified in family medicine and previously was with West Georgia Family Practice at 301 Medical Drive in LaGrange. Scott Worthy and Jim Karvelas with Prestige Realty arranged for the doctor to practice in Hogansville.

Dr. Catherine Burley currently practices with the Community Health Clinic at U.S. 29 north of Hogansville. Palmetto Health Council opened that clinic several years ago after the city had been without a doctor for more than four years. The clinic’s first doctor left after a short time and Burley opened in Hogansville in January 2009.

Worthy and Prestige Realty also said this week that a Justin boot store, The Cowboy Shop, is set to open in the Hummingbird Station complex. The shop is owned by the owners of a Roopville shop of the same name that doesn’t carry the boots. The Hogansville store will be the first Justin boot store in Georgia and the seventh nationally.

And the former AMR ambulance building at 201 E. Main St. is set to be the site of some commercial development. City Council recently approved a request from George Acosta, a California man who has renovated another Hogansville downtown business, to refurbish the ambulance building downtown.

The building had about a third of its bay door left, leaving the interior exposed and deteriorating. City Manager Bill Stankiewicz said Acosta is considering a downtown restaurant or pub for the site.

Right now, the city is happy to see the building restored. Acosta plans to replace the bay door with two large mahogany doors and windows, give the building an awning and a new roof, as well as remove the carport and gas pump and do other landscaping.

The Hogansville Merchants Association will symbolically cut the ribbons at 9 a.m. Saturday in Calvin Hipp Veterans Memorial Park on Main Street.

Businesses being honored (most with downtown locations) are Attic Treasures Uniques and Antiques Mall, Southern Charm Antiques Mall, Cakes-Maid Eats & Sweets, Prestige Realty, Cool Closet, Cottage Life Antiques, West Georgia Children’s Theater, Dianne’s Country Cookin’, Cato’s Restaurant and Hogansville Homemade-Homegrown Farmers Market, and No Rush Entertainment and Dessert Bar.

A few of the businesses, such as the children’s theater and No Rush, have been open for at least a year. Cato’s is a familiar name around Hogansville - the business sold its original U.S. 29 location two years ago and has reopened a block south.

The Hogansville Homemade-Homegrown Farmers Market will be open weekends beginning in May at Calvin Hipp Park. Planners of the market already have attracted a number of local and regional vendors. The market will be open rain or shine from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. May 1, 15, 29; June 12 and 26; July 10 and 24; Aug. 7 and 24; Sept. 4 and 18; and Oct. 2 and 23.

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