Buford, GA …by inking a deal on a new Community Center designed to out do Suwanee’s own city center. This development should also keep more locals, well, local instead of feeling like they need to go to Duluth’s Gwinnett Center to host reunions, conferences or just large birthday parties.
"It'll be something similar to Suwanee's Town Center, but we hope to improve on it and make it bigger and better," said Phillip Beard, chairman of Buford's City Commission. "We've got the old downtown and now we're going to have the new downtown."
The 40,000-square-foot, two-story community center will feature a ballroom, playhouse theater and public meeting space to rent for events such as birthday parties and anniversaries. The seven-acre site also will include walking trails, a park and children's fountain.
Buford isn't the only Gwinnett municipality investing in downtown development. Sugar Hill this year will break ground on a new 19th century-style, half-mile district. Suwanee continues to grow its Town Center, a mixed-use development envisioned in 2002 to embody a live-work-play-shop environment. And Lilburn has plans to overhaul its urban core.
All signs are point to a revitalization of all things local
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