Morris Sports Complex, and the downtown pedestrian bridge-colorfully reimagined recently by artists Micah and Whitney Stansell-with 360-degree views. Lewis Memorial Park on King Arnold Street, a skatepark at the Tom E. Key attractions Newer points of interest include John R. Hapeville has welcomed murals and public art. ![]() Hats off to architects and developers, led by Atlanta-based Morris & Fellows, for devising a ground-up new section of downtown that invites activity while feeling mostly organic. You might be surprised Prior to the turn of the century, when Alpharetta city leaders began assembling rundown buildings and parking lots to create a town center, no significant projects had been developed here for almost 30 years.Ĭharm-o-meter Rating 8. A recent survey showed just 2 percent of Alpharettans were born there. Who lives here? Alpharetta’s been a particular hit lately with Gen Xers moving from larger, denser cities, often for jobs in the city’s blossoming tech sector. Larger condos have fetched well over $800,000-and townhomes more than $1 million-in the past year. One-bedroom rents at the aforementioned apartments, Amorance, clock in at $1,800 for about 700 square feet. Housing types Options within a short walk of Alpharetta’s core are dominated by newer construction, be it modern-leaning townhouses or relatively dense single-family clusters.Ĭost of living Searching for a low-cost suburban alternative? You might need to keep looking. Sections of the planned BeltLine-style Alpha Loop have begun to open, including a link from downtown to Avalon, located a mile east. A 9,000-square-foot, speakeasy-inspired entertainment hub called Roaring Social is expected to join the mix soon at the forthcoming Hamilton Hotel. ![]() Key attractions Upscale seafood house Lapeer and a downtown location of homegrown Jekyll Brewing draw crowds. And they only can do it if they understand that start-ups are sort of the seed corn that some of which will become the big companies, like Amazon, of tomorrow.New and old mix gracefully in downtown Alpharetta. ![]() And they can only do it if they collaborate. So my hope is that the Amazon effort - you know, I know there’s a lot of controversy about it - can actually end up being a catalyst that has long-term legs and sort of the unintended consequence of rallying these communities to focus on the future, lean into the future. Now, 238 applied, and a lot of them knew they didn’t have much of a shot but, like, why not give it a go? My hope is that the 236 that lost, if they take half of the energy they put into rallying their community, to driving collaboration, and half of the dollars they were putting on the table to lure them, and refocus that on their start-up community, they might create the next Amazon. “Basically, when they set out to find 50,000 people in a single city, that really resulted in the cities that were a million-plus being in the running and the others weren’t. Transcript Steve Case on the Upside of Losing HQ2 Steve Case, chief executive of Revolution, speaking at The New York Times’s Cities for Tomorrow conference, described how cities that competed for and lost Amazon’s HQ2 could still see long-term benefits.
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