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City leaders share Town Center update By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Last week, representatives from Johns Creek’s business community got an update on the city’s Town Center development, which is poised to bring industry, park space, restaurants and retail to 192 acres near the McGinnis Ferry Road and Johns Creek Parkway intersection. Johns Creek Economic Development Director Randal Toussaint and other city leaders
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shared news about the project and the 42-acre Medley multiuse development, which will anchor the future Johns Creek Town Center, at the Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce meeting Aug. 23. Toussaint, who spoke at length about the project during the meeting, said that many good things are happening, and the future of the project is bright. “Oct. 31, 2025, We’re expected to have 100 percent
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At top: Johns Creek Communications Director Bob Mullen speaks to local business leaders at an Aug. 23 Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce meeting on the city’s upcoming Town Center project. Above: At an Aug. 23 meeting of the Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce, city leaders share a proposed map of the 192-acre town center project which will be built near the intersection of McGinnis Ferry Road and Johns Creek Parkway.
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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The Johns Creek City Council voted to stall medical cannabis dispensaries in the city for 90 days to study their appropriate zoning districts. Before the vote at the Aug. 22 regular meeting, Community Development Director Ben Song said city staff received two inquiries about Johns Creek opening a medical cannabis dispensary in the past month. “We were sort of caught off guard because generally we would treat it as just any other commercial use, which will be permitted in C-1, just like any other pharmaceutical or pharmacy,” Song said. Since Georgia’s Hope Act passed in 2019, the possession and sale of low-level THC oil has been legalized as medicine for people with qualified conditions, like cancer, Parkinson’s disease and autism. Song said the current state law allows for up to six
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