We are so proud to have been a part of this great project right down the street from us! Everyone in the surrounding communities is excited about this new experience of living in Alpharetta, the most buzzed-about development outside the perimeter in decades.
Even if you live inside the perimeter and have no plans to drive to Alpharetta to check it out, Avalon should be an encouragment to you as the city is changing for the better after the great recession. Check out what Creative Loafing has to say about it’s impact to Atlanta as a whole:
“In a region with no natural boundaries, real estate developments become the map for how we live and define our identities, and that in turn leads to transportation infrastructure decisions by policymakers… We’re never going to have the endless grids of a New York, San Francisco, or Los Angeles. The best we can hope for is places of significance, whether those are neighborhoods or real estate developments, and transportation solutions that allow us to get from one place to another in a reasonable amount of time.
Avalon is one such place of significance.
After attending the development’s opening ceremonies and walking around, it felt like the first place built for affluent Millennial families. It’s got a Whole Foods, a Lululemon, and an Antico Pizza. There’s Ford Fry’s El Felix and gigabit internet. I have to admit, even as an avid intown person who likes to hop around town, it felt convenient to have so many amenities in one place. Unlike many poorly designed real-estate developments in metro Atlanta, which feel like a mish-mash of random commercial tenants next to each other in a generic complex surrounded by oceans of parking lots, Avalon was designed with a demographic and experience in mind, and the execution reflects that. Sure, you have to drive to Alpharetta to get there, but once you’re there, it’s walkable. It’s the kind of place where, for a lot of people, when they think of Alpharetta their only reference point will be Avalon.” read the full article.
PGE has had the pleasure of being a part of creating the mixed use space as well as designing the MEP for two of the premiere restaurants, Oak Steakhouse and Coletta.
For more articles and details about the space see the following links throughout the web:
09-01-2015: Avalon, for making urbanism cool – in the burbs (Atlanta Magazine)
10-28-2014: Avalon and Alpharetta (AJC.com)
Check out this link for more pictures!
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