Peachtree Corners, Georgia Peachtree Corners, Georgia Gateway to Peachtree Corners Peachtree Corners is positioned in Metro Atlanta Peachtree Corners - Peachtree Corners Peachtree Corners is a town/city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States.
Peachtree Corners is the only one of Atlanta's northern suburbs that was advanced as a prepared community. In the late 1960s, Paul Duke advanced the idea of creating Peachtree Corners, a prepared improve to be constructed in the region that was once known as Pinckneyville. In 1967, Duke initiated the planning of the office component of Peachtree Corners, Technology Park/Atlanta, a ground for high technology industries to employ engineers graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology. As a member of the Georgia Tech National Advisory Board, he raised $1.7 million to precarious the company center. Initial inhabitants of the tech park encompassed GE, Scientific Atlanta, and Hayes Microcomputer Products.
In 1968, Duke established Peachtree Corners, Inc., a evolution corporation for the residentiary parts of the community. Initial neighborhoods advanced by Cowart encompassed Peachtree Station, Chattahoochee Station, Spalding Corners, Revington, Linfield, and Amberfield.
During this period, Cowart laid more sewage pipes than Gwinnett County. Neely Farm was one of the last neighborhoods to be assembled in Peachtree Corners, and it is positioned on the former farm of Frank Neely that abuts the Chattahoochee River. The United Peachtree Corners Civic Association (UPCCA), an umbrella group of neighborhood homeowners' associations, was formed in 1993 in response to territory use and overdevelopment concerns in the area. Even with the accomplishments of the UPCCA, evolution continued in Peachtree Corners throughout the 1990s, so that in 1999, the idea of incorporating Peachtree Corners was first proposed. However, due to the complexity of existing law, an incorporation boss never materialized. A town/city of Peachtree Corners was again proposed by the UPCCA in 2005, but accomplishments were abandoned after a resident survey revealed the majority of people did not support incorporation. In 2010 the UPCCA again pursued the incorporation of Peachtree Corners, after a floundered attempt by the town/city of Norcross to annex a portion of Technology Park. In a popular vote held on November 8, 2011, inhabitants of Peachtree Corners voted to incorporate as Gwinnett County's 16th city, and, with a populace of 40,059, making Peachtree Corners its largest.
The Chattahoochee River, seen here at Jones Bridge Park, flows through many of Peachtree Corners' neighborhoods.
Peachtree Corners is positioned in the corner of Gwinnett County at 33 58 32.1 N 84 13 4 W (33.969893, -84.221455). Peachtree Corners is bordered by the metros/cities of Dunwoody and Sandy Springs (De - Kalb and Fulton counties) on the west, Buford Highway and Norcross town/city limits on the south, Roswell and Johns Creek (both in Fulton County) athwart the Chattahoochee River on the north, and the town/city limits of Berkeley Lake and Duluth on the east. Since Peachtree Corners was not a town/city (nor even a census-designated place) at the time, no demographic data is available for the town/city from the 2010 U.S.
With parts of ZIP Codes 30071, 30096, 30097, and 30360 being inside the town/city limits of Peachtree Corners, the estimated populace is 40,059. The U.S.
Enumeration Bureau directly estimated the populace of Peachtree Corners to be 40,978 in 2015. The economy of Peachtree Corners is largely driven by the concentration of businesses, especially engineering firms and knowledge technology companies. In October 2014 United Arab Shipping Company relocated its North American Headquarters to Peachtree Corners.
The business purchased a 50,000 square foot office building on Spalding Drive for logistics, accounting and customer service operations. The office ground includes a 9 1/2 ton ship anchor, weighing 8775 kilograms and measuring 16 feet long by 10 feet wide. In February 2015, Governor Nathan Deal confirmed that Comcast will be expanding their Southeast HQ to Peachtree Corners.In 2016, the Peachtree Corners Incubator was opened in partnership with the Georgia Tech Advanced Technology Development Center. Peachtree Corners is home to a several parks, including the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area - Medlock Bridge, Holcomb Bridge Park Jones Bridge Park, Pinckneyville Park, and Simpsonwood Park. The town/city holds the Annual Peachtree Corners Festival. Peachtree Corners City Hall The City of Peachtree Corners was incorporated on July 1, 2012, and provides three services: land-use planning and zoning including zoning enforcement, promulgation of building and surroundingal ordinances and enforcement of them, and solid waste collection. The town/city is governed by a mayor and six town/city council members which are propel to four-year terms. The town/city employees Peachtree Corners has in charge of day-to-day operations include a town/city manager, town/city clerk, and the improve evolution director. The town/city also has code enforcement personnel, and building officials. department directors, Departments in the town/city include Communications, Community Development, Finance, and Public Works. The town/city has its own municipal court and employs a town/city attorney. The town/city is authorized to collect property taxes of up to one millage a year, though the town/city directed only on company license and other fees and without levying any property taxes in 2013. The United States Postal Service operates the Peachtree Corners Post Office, which uses ZIP code 30010 for postal service boxes in that location. As of July 2014, USPS officially recognized Peachtree Corners as a city, which means inhabitants and businesses may use Peachtree Corners in their mailing address and on their websites.
Gwinnett County Public Library - Peachtree Corners branch Gwinnett County Public Schools serve Peachtree Corners through Duluth High School, Norcross High School, Duluth Middle School, Pinckneyville Middle School, Simpson Elementary School, Peachtree Elementary School, and Berkeley Lake Elementary School.Further, Wesleyan School, Seigakuin Atlanta International School and Cornerstone Christian Academy (K-8th grade) are private schools positioned in Peachtree Corners. Gwinnett County Public Library operates the Peachtree Corners Library. WGTV is the flagship station of the statewide Georgia Public Television network and is a PBS member station. Peachtree Corners is served by the Gwinnett Daily Post, which is the most widely distributed journal as well as Gwinnett county's legal organ. The former site of BJ's Wholesale Club was used as the set of the 2012 movie "Neighborhood Watch" starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Jonah Hill. A home on Fitzpatrick Way in Peachtree Corners was used as a recording locale for the 2015 movie "Barely Lethal" starring Sophie Turner (actress), Jessica Alba, and Samuel L.
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