Brunswick abandons longtime plan for convention center

Officials in Brunswick are abandoning a decades-long plan to build a convention center and hotel, seeking to use money set aside for the project to reduce property taxes.

Brunswick city commissioners on Wednesday unanimously approved a resolution declaring the proposed Oglethorpe Conference Center “infeasible.”

The Brunswick News reports that the Glynn County Commission must now approve a resolution allowing sales tax funds dedicated to the convention center to be repurposed.

Voters would then have to approve a resolution to use the money for something else.