The City Limits of Suwanee with many of the residents located a short distance from the Chattahoochee River.
Suwanee Georgia is a growing city about 45 minutes northeast of Atlanta. Situated on the Chattahoochee River between Gwinnett and Forsyth County, the city of Suwanee was once a rural area full of horse farms and cow pastures and has since exploded into a sprawling suburb full of neighborhoods, parks and other developments. While other communities in the area have fallen into the stereotype of suburban decay that usually comes with such massive growth in a short period of time, Suwanee has tried, and some may say succeeded, in breaking that stereotype.
The award winning River Club Community Located just East of the Chattahoochee
Beginning in the late 90’s the housing boom brought the initial enormous growth to Suwanee with numerous neighborhood developments all along the Chattahoochee, however, most of these developments forewent home sites directly on the river in favor of forest and wetland preservation. These undeveloped lands turned into natural recreation areas for the residents of the neighborhoods that sprawl across the river valley landscape and provide each community with the character that is generally non existent in the typical suburban sprawl type neighborhood. Nearly 20 years after the first developments began to spring up in Suwanee the home values have stood firm and even risen where you see other community’s have fallen off significantly.
Town Center Park: The Successful Mixed-Use Development at the Heart of Suwanee.
The steady and continued growth driven by the housing market in the area has allowed the public and private sectors of Suwanee to thrive, with a commitment to providing quality gren-space through various park initiatives to the increase in successful pedestrian friendly shopping and entertainment developments throughout the city. The crown jewel of this initiative is Suwanee Town Center Park; located in the heart of Suwanee on a major thoroughfare, this park combines green-space, entertainment, restaurants, multi-family housing and civic buildings into a beautiful package that has become the envy of surrounding townships. This ultra successful development has only driven more growth to the area and enabled the city to improve existing parks as well as create new ones.
Sims Lake Park, Suwanee’s Newest edition to it’s park system
The list of parks and green-spaces in Suwanee is exhaustive and a major factor in its Top 50 Best Places to Live ranking by Money Magazine in 2013. From recreational parks such as George Pierce to natural passive parks like Sims Lake to community gardens at Gary Pirkle and Main Street Parks the park system is unmatched by any other municipality in the the area. The massive success of this community is proof that a commitment to the environment and the character of a place can produce healthy growth and development, even in area that is filled with existing suburban sprawl.