HGTV picks Wetumpka for 'Home Town Takeover' television series

Jenny Enslen Stubbs / Special to the Herald

HGTV picked the City of Wetumpka from more than 2,600 other locations in the country for a downtown makeover. The work will be featured in the network’s series “Home Town Takeover.”

The quest to find the perfect location for the new HGTV special-event series, "Home Town Takeover," is now complete.

The cable network and Ben and Erin Napier, hosts of the series, chose Wetumpka from more than 2,600 other locations. HGTV stated in a release more than half a million photo and video submissions were submitted.