Effective on March 1st, the issue between Gwinnett and 15 of its cities has been upgraded by the State of Georgia. The 15 cities and Gwinnett are now listed with the state as No Longer Qualified Local Governments.
Effective on March 1st, the issue between Gwinnett and 15 of its cities has been upgraded by the State of Georgia. The 15 cities and Gwinnett are now listed with the state as No Longer Qualified Local Governments.
I have spent some of the last week updating the Local Market Explorers for Buford, Duluth, Lawrenceville, Lilburn, Norcross, Sugar Hill and Suwanee. I have added new market reports for January.
Lilburn is in Gwinnett County, GA, just outside of Atlanta. As of the 2000 Census, there were 11,307 people in Lilburn, but that is only including people in the city limits, and there has been a lot of growth since 2000 in Gwinnett County. It was incorporated in 1910. Lilburn is home to Parkview High School, and also has students that the Brookwood, Berkmar and Meadowcreek clusters. It is also home to Killian Hill Christian School, Providence Chrisian Academy, St. John Neumann Catholic School and Parkview Christian School. Possibly the most famous resident of Lilburn is General Beauregard Lee, a groundhog with a better winter prediction record that Puxatawnee Phil up in PA. Dominique Wilkins, formerly of the Atlanta Hawks also lives in Lilburn.
Late in 2008, Gwinnett County, GA, announced the implementation of a new Waste Management Plan. I wrote about the announcement here… You can check out the costs and so forth there…
Just a few weeks later, the plan was killed in court. The trash haulers that weren’t selected successfully sued the county to stop the plan. The plan was to take effect on January 2nd, 2009.
It’s Baaack…
On March 2nd, the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners approved the plan. It has been slightly modified, but is largely the same plan. Instead of two haulers dividing up the county, now there are five haulers. The plan is expected to start effective July 1st, 2010.
On the plus side, there should be curbside pick-up for more recyclable materials. Costs are projected to be almost the same as they are for most private contracts.
Will it hold? We’ll see…
The real estate market for Gwinnett County is in a state of flux. There are wide variations between different location throughout the county, as well as different price strata. There are a few themes that are readily apparent, but some locations and price ranges are standouts (good or bad)…