ReStore Savannah to move info former Food Lion
Coastal Empire Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore Savannah plans to leave its location in McAlpin Square at 1900 East Victory Drive and move into the former Food Lion building at 701 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in the Carver Commons Shopping center.
Local Habitat for Humanity offices, currently at 1106 E. 70th St., also will relocate to the new location late this spring.
ReStore Savannah is a building supply store for Habitat for Humanity where quality, used and surplus building materials are available at discount prices with the proceeds used to help build homes in the community.
ReStore Savannah will also have a moving sale, according to a news release.
For more information, visit www.restoresavannah.org.
Mustang Club makes contribution to Ronald McDonald House
Members of the Savannah Mustang Club have presented the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Coastal Empire with a check for $27,550.
The group raised the money by selling raffle tickets to win a 35th Anniversary Mustang Convertible. The winner of the car was chosen in October at the National Car Show by the group “Mustangs in Historic Savannah.”
The donation will benefit critically ill or injured children and their families who are served each year by the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Coastal Empire.
Last year, the Ronald McDonald House in Savannah provided more than 4,007 family night stays, gave comfort and support to more than 3,000 families through its two family rooms and served more than 2,600 children with its mobile dental program.
For more information, call 912-350-7641 or visit www.rmhccoastalempire.org.
Committee OKs renewal of tax break
ATLANTA — Video-game makers can keep getting their tax credit under legislation approved Thursday by the House Ways and Means Committee.
House Bill 339 extends access to the breaks through 2018, but they are capped annually at $1.5 million per company and $12.5 million total. There are seven companies in Georgia, said Rep. Ron Stephens, R-Savannah.
“Jobs are growing in the industry, and companies are coming here,” he told the committee.
Pay averages $100,000, according to Stephens, a cosponsor of the legislation.
Georgia-based companies can use the credit to count against what they owe on corporate income taxes. The Department of Economic Development must certify that the companies have a payroll greater than $500,000 during the preceding year, and the Department of Revenue is required to submit a report next year on the total number of jobs attributable to the credits.
“This is a trackable mechanism,” Stephens said. “It’s worked in the past.”