Archive for May, 2008
Smooth Jazz Is Back at Suwanee Town Center Park
May 28th, 2008 Categories: Suwanee Events, Suwanee Fun Stuff, Suwanee Real Estate
The month of June kicks off in Suwanee with Joey Sommerville playing his own style of smooth jazz trumpet at Town Center Park amphitheater on Friday, June 6th as part of the 107.5 WJZZ Smooth Jazz Concert series. His performance will include music from his newest CD release “Like You Mean It” as well as many other favorites. Joey Sommerville has performed with a diverse range of artist including the mega-rock group Phish and as the featured instrumental soloist on Cirque de Soleil’s Grammy-nominated album, Alegria. The performance begins at 7 PM with Chandra Currelley’s improvisational vocal energy with urban, spiritual 
and jazz influences.
As always, there will be fun activities for the kids including the “Big Splash” fountain along with the great restaurants and shops to visit in the Town Center Park development while the great music fills the summer night. Bring picnics, blankets, and low-back chairs to Town Center Park. Food, beer, and wine will be available for purchase.
No outside alcoholic beverages may be brought into Town Center Park.
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Life is good in Suwanee Festival at Town Center Park
May 27th, 2008 Categories: Diamond Dwellings, Suwanee Events, Suwanee Fun Stuff
Backyard fun is coming to the Suwanee Town Center Park and for a wonderful cause. On Saturday, June 14th some of Suwanee’s backyard athletes will be competing for the title of “World’s Greatest Backyard Athlete” in an effort to entertain their friends and neighbors while raising money for Project Joy. Project Joy is a non-profit organization that uses “play” to strengthen and heal children whose lives have been deeply impacted by trauma.
Each athlete must raise at least $500 in contributions for Project Joy in order to compete in this “intense” competition including potato sack races, watermelon-seed spitting and other wacky lawn games. In addition to cheering for the front-line competitors, families can enjoy the wonderful creativity of local craftspeople, fun activities for the kids, great music and great food. Spaces are still available for contestants in the World’s Greatest Backyard Athlete competition and contributions can still be made to Project Joy.
Competitors can sign up through June 2. Project Joy contributions can be delivered to the City of Suwanee and made payable to “Life is good Kids Foundation.”
Our own DeWayne Davis will be competing for the title of World’s Greatest Backyard Athlete, so come out to cheer him on in the competition and help him raise money for this very worthy cause.
Many volunteers are needed in order to make this event successful. Please consider helping out!
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Suwanee Town Center Park Hosts Star94 FM Petapalooza
May 12th, 2008 Categories: Suwanee Events, Suwanee Fun Stuff
The park will be filled with pets of all sizes and shapes on Saturday, May 17th beginning at noon as Star 94 FM brings the annual Petapalooza - Pet Party in the Park. Bring your dog and prepare to meet hundreds of other pet owners in the park for a great day of fun. If you don’t have a dog, but love animals, music, food or fun; then you’ll have a great time too. In past years, this event has drawn in people from all over Gwinnett and the surrounding areas for a great afternoon of pet and people watching along with fun activities for kids, pet competitions and demonstrations, great food, great music and the joy of being in the park. Don’t let the dogs have all the fun. Come and enjoy one of Suwanee’s favorite park events with all your friends and family. For more information you can visit Star 94 FM and the City of Suwanee websites.
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Suwanee Resident Realtor Love the City & Lifestyle
May 10th, 2008 Categories: Atlanta Real Estate, Suwanee Real Estate
Realtor with Diamond Dwellings Realty in Gwinnett County Georgia just northeast of Atlanta. Enthusiastic resident of Suwanee and 12-year resident of Gwinnett county with an extensive network of family and friends throughout metro-Atlanta and Georgia. Additional residential real estate experience as the owner and primary inspector for Look Close Home Inspections serving the metro-Atlanta and surrounding areas for over 6 years, including work as a certified radon gas test provider. Past career experience includes 10 years service as an officer in the Air Force and over 9 years as an outside sales engineer calling on industrial and retail corporate clients throughout the southeast.
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Suwanee Neighborhood Improvements to be Discussed for Eva Kennedy Road
May 6th, 2008 Categories: Suwanee Events, Suwanee Real Estate
In keeping with Suwanee’s strong desire to improve the quality of life within our communities and keep the community involved, there will be a public meeting on Thursday, May 8th from 4-7 PM at the Suwanee Crossroads Center, 323 Buford Hwy to discuss possible improvements to Eva Kennedy Road.
The project under consideration includes an area from Stonecypher Road to near the Brushy Creek subdivision. Work will include some sidewalk replacement on the south side of the roadway also adding curbs and gutters, as well as oval landscaped islands to reduce traffic speeds through the area. This is an important neighborhood area blending the new and old of Suwanee from the nearby historic Main Street old town merging into the progressive new neighborhoods like the Brushy Creek subdivision. This area readily feeds out to the main thoroughfares of Suwanee Dam Road and Peachtree Industrial, and yet it maintains a quiet, secluded atmosphere, hidden from the busy hustle of the nearby retail shops and restaurants. This project will help to maintain this quiet, secluded feeling while improving the basic street amenities and enhancing the overall appeal.
No schedule has been confirmed but the work is expected to begin before the end of the year. City officials will discuss the project during Thursday’s meeting.
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Suwanee Ranks Among Best Places to Live (CNN/Money.com)
May 4th, 2008 Categories: Suwanee Real Estate
There’s a lot of reasons to love Suwanee! One of my favorite reasons is last year’s CNN Money report on the top 100 best places to live. Suwanee ranked at #10 on that list. Of course, that is a real shot in the arm for Suwanee real estate values.
The report gives some pretty amazing statistics, including the fact that there are some 2500 restaurants within 15 miles! (click on the picture to see the whole report)
Other noteworthy stats were median family income of over $100k and a very strong average home price of $293k — based on the 2007 report. At this point those numbers have probably declined a bit, but that’s a different story (for my next post on Suwanee Dwellings.com!)
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Fine Art - Alive, Well and Available in Gwinnett - Find Our Hidden Treasures
May 3rd, 2008 Categories: Gwinnett County, Suwanee Fun Stuff
The Gwinnett Center and Gwinnett Arena complex is one of Gwinnett county’s many great lifestyle benefits, providing convenient access to exciting sporting events, world-famous entertainers, inspirational conferences and many different facets of fine arts including music and visual arts. One of the hidden treasures within the Gwinnett Center complex is the Jacqueline Casey Hudgens Center for the Arts, which is owned and operated by the Gwinnett Council for the Arts, a non-profit organization supported through the generosity of many private patrons, corporations and foundations.
The Hudgens Center for the Arts is currentjy exhibiting the extraordinary personal collections of Susan and William Rochfort, “Gifts from Africa: Bronzes, Art and Aritifacts.” The opening reception was held last night, Thursday (5/1/08), for an excited crowd of supporters who were treated to a brief explanation, from Susan Rochfort, of the passion which inspired her along with her husband to assemble this amazing collection and then willingly share it with as many people as possible. The reception also included an informative presentation on African culture and its influences on the art of Africa by Dr. Douglas Falen, Asst. Professor of Anthropology at Agnes Scott College. Although this introduction greatly enhanced the experience for those fortunate supporters viewing the exhibit during last night’s reception, the collection itself is amazingly inspirational for everyone who will see it during its eight week stay at the Hudgens Center. The number and diversity of pieces collected by these two passionate individuals will be a treat for hundreds of people throughout Gwinnett county and surrounding areas, including many, many students and young children who will be able to see the exhibit free of charge because of the generosity and passion of Susan Rochfort.
For more information about the “Gifts from Africa: Bronzes, Art and Artifacts” exhibit or other events at Hudgens Center for the Arts visit www.artsgwinnett.org and definitely take advantage of this wonderful treasure right at our back door.
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Suwanee Calendar of Events for Summer 2008
May 3rd, 2008 Categories: Suwanee Events, calendar
Latest lisitng of events: (www.suwanee.com )
Art on a Limb - Suwanee Greenway Trails - Throughout the month of May
Jazz Concert at Town Center Park - Friday, May 2nd at 7PM (www.1075wjzz.com)
Star 94 FM, Petapalooza, Pet Party at Town Center Park - Saturday, May 17th at Noon (www.star94.com/promotions/)
Gwinnet Daily Post, Memorial Weekend Concert at Town Center Park - Friday, May 23rd at 7PM
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Diamond Dwellings™ — Smarter Real Estate in Suwanee
May 3rd, 2008 Categories: Suwanee Real Estate
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Suwanee Dwellings.com adds Signature Lending Group as a Partner
May 3rd, 2008 Categories: Loan Options, Video
Signature Lending Group has been working with Diamond Dwellings for quite some time. We’ve always been impressed with their level of professionalism & attention to detail. They recently released this short video profile that provides a real quick look into “who they are”. Just thought our friends here in Suwanee might want to have a look. Signature Lending Group is serving all of Gwinnett County — really all of Georgia. They are also a licensed mortgage broker in Florida and several other states.
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