Super Guide to Gwinnett 2017
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GUIDETOGWINNETT.COM<br />
THE CHANGING FACE OF<br />
DULUTH<br />
DOWNTOWN<br />
Last year Duluth’s 30,000 sq. ft. down<strong>to</strong>wn<br />
Restaurant District Parsons Alley was a maze<br />
of construction equipment and contrac<strong>to</strong>rs<br />
building roads, commercial buildings, a new<br />
middle school, parking, and traffic signals. Today<br />
all of the Parsons Alley buildings are complete<br />
with eight of the 12 spaces occupied or in<br />
tenant finish. The public spaces are complete<br />
with outdoor seating, a public plaza, sitting<br />
walls, and public art. The school is complete and<br />
the first residential units at the corner of Buford<br />
Hwy and 120 (Duluth Hwy) are being occupied.<br />
Duluth is still three years away from finishing<br />
its down<strong>to</strong>wn upgrade. There are more<br />
commercial and public buildings <strong>to</strong> be built<br />
that are already approved and permitted. Visit<br />
<strong>to</strong>day and you can eat, shop and be entertained<br />
in buildings constructed in the 1870s, 1900s,<br />
1940s, 1990s, 2000s, and in <strong>2017</strong>. Each<br />
one serving <strong>to</strong>day’s public is a tribute <strong>to</strong> the<br />
era in which it was built. Park your car in one of<br />
the city’s 1,000 free and unlimited down<strong>to</strong>wn<br />
parking spaces and see what has changed.<br />
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