For the first four months of 2017, officials with the city of Sugar Hill have issued 34 residential permits, a figure that is 19-percent higher than the first four months of 2016, perhaps a signal of the boom that continues in the city.
Of those 34 permits, 28 of them were for single family homes, with an average size of 3,131 square feet, while the remaining six were for multi-family homes with an average size of 2,460 square feet, according to city documents.
One of the incoming neighborhoods, whose permits do not figure into the numbers listed above, will be built near Roberts Elementary School.
The influx of housing isn't the only building boom in the Gwinnett County city. Work continues on a massive development known as the "E-Center" in downtown Sugar Hill, and officials said they are in the grading stages of the first phase of the Sugar Loop Greenway, a roughly 15-mile trail that will circle the city.
The E-Center is slated for completion in 2018, and it will include 387-seat performing arts center along with 43,000 square feet of office, restaurant and retail space in the city's downtown area, near Peachtree Industrial Boulevard.
But the city's focus hasn't been entirely on building vertically. Leaders have also made efforts to provide green space.
In February, city council members approved a land annexation for a piece of property along Cumming Highway that will become a passive park.
All of this will be added to the city's revitalized downtown area, which includes its new city hall and a concert venue called "The Bowl," which will host such names as KC and the Sunshine Band and Boz Skaggs this summer.
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