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On Wednesday, the city of Villa Rica hosted their last leadership luncheon of the year. Going out with a big bang, the guest speaker for the day was major developer Jeffrey S. Fuqua, the founder of Fuqua Development, LP.

Pickle and Social, an entertainment venue that combines pickleball, lawn games and dining, is planned for Buford and Alpharetta.

Permits were recently filed in Gwinnett County for the Buford location, which is coming to The Exchange @ Gwinnett.

(Forsyth County, GA) The Forsyth County Planning Commission has recommended approval of a conditional use permit (CUP) for Fuqua Acquisitions to build several developments on 35.36 acres of land on Ronald Reagan Boulevard.

Todd Broaderick, President of parent company Georgia Franchise Group, Thursday told What Now Atlanta the upcoming Knuckies will be corporate-owned, as will a location set to open mid-August in the Peachtree Corners Town Center.

When Mayor Lenny Curry releases the final city budget proposal July 21, it likely will include $484.9 million in capital improvement spending with a list of projects heavy on Downtown infrastructure, countywide park improvements, road resurfacing and city facilities.

Construction is still ongoing at the Exchange at Gwinnett, which is located at Buford Drive and Interstate 85 interchange in unincorporated Buford. Several restaurants are nearing completion at the site and construction is continuing on The Outlook senior living community. The footprint for additional buildings at the development are starting to take shape while walls are going up on adjacent commercial buildings. Utilities have also been installed for a hotel which will be built at the development.

Intown Atlanta neighborhoods have routinely opposed Fuqua's projects because they object to the swaths of surface parking. The city should embrace less reliance on cars, they say.

JPickleball lovers will have a new spot to play — and hang out — next spring at The Exchange @ Gwinnett.

Competitive Social Ventures recently broke ground on its first Pickle & Social venue. The venue is located at The Exchange @ Gwinnett, the multi-use entertainment development designed by Fuqua Development that is located near the Mall of Georgia.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville’s Brooklyn neighborhood is getting a Whole Foods Market, a spokesperson for the natural food grocer confirmed Thursday.

A Whole Foods Market spokesperson said May 3 the organic and natural foods grocer has no details to share about the One Riverside Jacksonville store planned in the Brooklyn area of the Downtown Northbank.

The Carroll County Board of Commissioners voted in their Tuesday evening meeting to send a revised, draft version of an Intergovernmental Agreement back to the city of Villa Rica.

Organic and natural foods specialty grocery Whole Foods Market will be the anchor tenant at One Riverside, the residential and retail development planned for the former Florida Times-Union site on the Northbank of the St. Johns River.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The razing process of the former Florida Times-Union building is well in its advanced stages. The iconic five-story newspaper headquarters and press building along Jacksonville's Riverwalk, now a literal shell of its past life, have been vacated for over two years.

Matthew Clark, senior director of Colliers, will be the tenant leasing representative for One Riverside along with the real estate company’s associates Sam Middlekauff and Olivia Steinemann.

Over the past two decades, the mall has spawned big-box retailers, car dealerships and chain restaurants along Buford Drive. But a growing number of developers are breaking from tradition and planning mixed-use centers with more walkability.

Over the past two decades, the mall has spawned big-box retailers, car dealerships and chain restaurants along Buford Drive. But a growing number of developers are breaking from tradition and planning mixed-use centers with more walkability.

The former Florida Times-Union property will soon be demolished to make way for a new development known as One Riverside.

The hype around proposed big projects centers around how they could have a major impact — if they are approved. But one Gwinnett County official said the Exchange @ Gwinnett has already proven it can more than walk the walk and back up the talk from its developers.

The hype around proposed big projects centers around how they could have a major impact — if they are approved. But one Gwinnett County official said the Exchange @ Gwinnett has already proven it can more than walk the walk and back up the talk from its developers.

Atlanta-based developer Jeff Fuqua bought the former Florida Times-Union property Feb. 4 and said demolition will start quickly for what he estimates will be a $250 million redevelopment of the Downtown Northbank riverfront site into One Riverside.

If all goes to plan, before the end of next year, a new development in Villa Rica will generate more than a half million dollars in new sales tax revenues — money for Carroll County, the county school board, for Villa Rica and other county cities.

For many of the hundreds of people who've worked for The Florida Times-Union over the past few decades, it will no doubt be bittersweet when our distinctive old black-and-white building at 1 Riverside Ave. (a great address) gets torn down to make way for more stuff in the fast-growing Brooklyn neighborhood.

Salt Factory Pub, the popular gastropub that originated in Roswell, is expanding to Reynoldstown’s Madison Yards, according to a permit filed with the City of Atlanta. The permit is for the interior build-out of Suite 512 at 905 Memorial Drive, and the estimated cost of construction is $1,250,000.00

Salt Factory Pub, a staple of Atlanta's northern suburbs, is venturing intown with its next location.