Atlanta Suburb Wraps Up Construction on New Town Center Commercial District
The Atlanta suburb of Snellville, Georgia, has completed construction of a new town center, the latest city in the area trying to forge an identity through a commercial development project.
The Grove at Towne Center, a $140 million project in the works for about a decade, includes residential, retail, office, dining and healthcare. The development is arranged in a town square format with sidewalks and a central landscaped area.
Snellville follows other Atlanta suburbs that have created new commercial village areas to attract businesses, residents and visitors and to foster an identity as a place with a town center. The cities of Alpharetta, Fayetteville, Suwanee and Woodstock in the Atlanta area have created similar commercial developments.
The city of Snellville partnered with Columbus, Ohio-based developer Casto, Atlanta-based MidCity Real Estate Partners and Gwinnett County to create the 18-acre Grove at Towne Center.
Greystar, the largest U.S. apartment owner, operates the 288-unit Tomlin apartment complex. Thrive will operate the coworking space. Retail is spread across multiple buildings, including a 22,000-square-foot building with a craft brewery run by Crooked Can Brewing Co. Northside Hospital is the operator of a medical office, ambulatory surgery center and healthcare clinic. The library is a branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library system.
The new village also includes a parking deck and direct access to the Snellville Greenway, a five-mile walking path under development that will connect with Lawrenceville, Georgia.
For the Record
Shannon Dixon and Kristen Dykes at Casto and Kirk Demetrops at MidCity Real Estate Partners are retail and restaurant leasing agents. Chuck Hull and Andy Amor at Smallwood provided architecture, master planning and landscape architecture services. TSW Architects, Place Maker Design and Dynamik Design also provided architecture and master planning services. Fortune-Johnson, Hodges & Hicks and Winter Construction are general contractors.
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