December is here and the holiday season is in full motion with excitement, joy, and frankly, looming deadlines that can be stress-inducing. Right now, you are probably frantically searching for gifts, party-planning and finishing up work projects for the calendar year. Fortunately, there are several resources in the Gwinnett Place area that can simplify your…
When we decided to pursue our goal of opening Fumi Atlanta, a traditional-meets-fusion Japanese restaurant, my business partners and I were delighted to purchase the building that previously housed Purple Rain in the center of the Gwinnett Place area. We knew that the central business area of Gwinnett County would welcome our dining concept, given the…
With the close of 2016, Partnership Gwinnett, a public-private economic development initiative, has reached a couple of milestones. It is celebrating its 10-year anniversary and, in January, launches into its third five-year strategic plan. Since 2007, Partnership Gwinnett has worked to attract and retain jobs, cultivate capital investment, support educational institutions, foster workforce development and contribute…
Since the mid-1980s Gwinnett voters have approved a series of Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax programs, known as SPLOST. Gwinnett SPLOST is an optional 1% sales tax levied for the purpose of funding capital outlay projects that improve our infrastructure and quality of life. SPLOST programs have allowed Gwinnett to efficiently and effectively raise…
To ensure on-going community growth and well-being, the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce uses its well-invested resources into the core fabric of its members’ businesses and citizens living within Gwinnett County, Metro Atlanta and Georgia’s Innovation Crescent region. As an independent, non-profit, member-funded advocacy organization representing over 2,000 companies that employ more than 750,000 people, the…
Partnership Gwinnett, in conjunction with the Council for Quality Growth, hosted the first annual Metro Atlanta Redevelopment Summit (MARS) at the Studio Movie Grill in Duluth on Thursday, Oct. 6. The Summit, which was formerly known as the Redevelopment Forum, previously focused primarily on Gwinnett County. This year, the Summit enlarged its geographical footprint to…
Location, location, location. Those are three words every economic development and real estate guru will tell you is the most important ingredient to increase property values. At Gwinnett Place, we are sitting in the cat bird seat for location in the Metro Atlanta region based on our area’s demographics, including 228,000 millennials who live within…
Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District (CID) in coordination with Gwinnett County Department of Transportation (DOT), Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT), and the State Road and Tollway Authority (SRTA) opened the Diverging Diamond Interchange (DDI) at Pleasant Hill Road over I-85 on June 11, 2013. Funded by the voter-approved 2009 SPLOST, this project is the culmination of years…
On October 17, the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners (BOC) took another bold step forward, which I believe, will be seen as a major milestone in the continual evolution of the Gwinnett Place area. Unanimously, the board approved a process that will allow them to acquire several properties around the existing transit center across from…
Longtime Gwinnett County business owner and Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District board member Mark Williams shares his views on the role of Community Improvement Districts to keep communities safe and economically vibrant. Land and buildings go through a natural evolution over time, which means that, just like a home needs upkeep and occasional remodeling, so too…