A massive mixed-use project known as the Atlanta Media Campus was approved in Gwinnett County Tuesday, and is expected to revitalize an area in the southern part of the county that has been slow to redevelop.
The project will have movie studios, offices, a hotel and a college campus, and will be built on an underutilized site where fiber optic cables are now made. The approval is the culmination of nearly a decade of work to try to bring a catalyst project to the area off Jimmy Carter Boulevard in the Gwinnett Village Community Improvement District.
“I’m just elated,” said Chuck Warbington, executive director of the CID. “It’s the light at the end of the tunnel.”
Some movies have already been filmed on the site, and the first part of the project will be to make those temporary studios permanent. Jacoby, which developed Atlantic Station, is expected to close on the property early next year. But it will be a decade before the whole project is completed.
When it is, the studio is expected to bring more than $15 million in annual property tax to the county.
“Tonight’s the night you make history, and I don’t think that’s an overstatement,” said Michael Sullivan, an attorney who represented Jacoby. “The region is watching this case and tonight, we’re sending them a message. This is Gwinnett’s big move.”
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