More Flowers Coming To I-85. Gwinnett Village CID Set To Complete Beautification Of Interstate

NORCROSS — It’s hard to miss the colorful rainbow of flowers and professional landscaping when travelling along Interstate 85 near the interchanges at Jimmy Carter Boulevard, Indian Trail Road and Beaver Ruin Road. Part of the Gwinnett Village Community Improvement District’s beautification efforts, those $825,000 worth of projects have been ongoing for several years.  
With the announcement made Wednesday, in [...]

Evermore CID Holds First Board Meeting At Former Olympic Tennis Stadium, All Part Of An Effort To Transform The U.S. Highway 78 Business District

SNELLVILLE — With new ceiling tiles, new carpeting and the smell of fresh paint on the walls, as promised the Evermore Community Improvement District Board of Directors held its first meeting at the pro shop of the former Olympic tennis stadium Wednesday.
As soon as the telephone and data lines are installed, the CID office will move [...]

Evermore CID Wins Grant; Keeps Hope Alive of Redeveloping Olympic Tennis Stadium At Stone Mountain

SNELLVILLE — The effort to eventually transform the former Olympic tennis stadium at Stone Mountain got a pleasant jolt in the right direction Thursday from the Atlanta Regional Commission.
The good news came when the ARC awarded the Evermore Community Improvement District with a $40,000 grant to allow it to further study a possible multi-modal mixed use center [...]

Gwinnett Place CID Financially Strong; Looks Ahead At Fixing Pleasant Hill Road’s I-85 Interchange

DULUTH — After hearing from its Executive Director Joe Allen that the Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District was financially strong, its board of directors Wednesday received a look at plans to fix and eventually replace the Pleasant Hill Road bridge connecting with I- 85.
Anyone who knows Gwinnett County traffic woes knows the Pleasant Hill Road bridge all too well. The plan moving through at present includes reconstructing [...]

Evermore CID Approves Move To New Headquarters In Effort To Transform Olympic Tennis Venue

SNELLVILLE — The quest to save Atlanta’s 1996 Olympic tennis venue from a 2011 demolition date became official Wednesday with the Evermore CID Board of Director’s official, unanimous decision to move its headquarters into the venue’s abandoned pro shop for the rest of the year.
With historic Stone Mountain serving as a backdrop to the unused [...]