Dacula Is at the Center of Georgia’s Innovation Crescent

The innovation crescent is a geographic area and a coalition of more than a dozen counties and entities. It includes Gwinnett County and all of the City of Dacula. This is Georgia’s hub for life sciences. It is Georgia’s answer to the Research Triangle in North Carolina. It includes top research organizations such as Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia, Georgia Gwinnett College, and our Gwinnett Tech. It includes a wide range of science companies, large and small. The Innovation Crescent is becoming the hub of life science in the Southeast. 

When you consider that Athens is one end of the crescent and Emory, CDC, and Georgia Tech are at the other end, you see that the City of Dacula is at the center of the Innovation Crescent. We are cradled between the important transportation routes of Georgia Highway 316, U.S. 29, and the CSX Railroad. The City provides the best of all worlds in that you may reach academic Athens or urban Atlanta in just about 40 minutes. By connecting with Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta, you can visit the world. Corporate fliers can reach Briscoe Field in just a couple of minutes.

The City of Dacula has always supported a superior educational system, producing many professionals in the arts, medicine, law, and life sciences. Gwinnett County Public Schools is a premier primary and secondary system producing students that achieve in higher education. The Dacula Cluster continues to provide excellent educational opportunities. Superior technical, college and university schools are located, like Georgia Gwinnett College, just minutes away from Dacula. Georgia Gwinnett College is a brand new college and is considered a center for innovation in teaching, offering leading-edge technology, personal attention and hands-on learning experiences for its students. Our award winning Gwinnett County Library system provides 14 branches that play a central role in the cultural, intellectual and life of this metropolitan community. We recognize the value of libraries in our community. I believe that a library branch, wherever located, forms the engine that helps with urban and metropolitan renewal, the value of which cannot be accurately assessed without great thought and precise determination.

The City of Dacula and our surrounding areas retain our hometown feel and extend to residents and visitors our southern hospitality. This is a good place to raise a family. Since the whole of the Innovation Crescent has lower tax rates and a lower cost of living, we think your money goes further than in other areas of our state and country. We offer a temperate climate and loads of recreational opportunities. The Innovation Crescent is also a true arts center. Nearby Atlanta ranks third in music production. Dacula can be proud of its influence on blue grass and other music genres, as Dacula is the home of the Gid Tanner and his 1920s and 30s Skillet Lickers string band. By the way, the string band is still going with the Tanner family each Friday night in Dacula. 

So when anyone mentions the Innovation Crescent, be aware that we are working hard to make our workforces more capable, our City more habitable and our hospitality more gracious. We are working as a community to find system-wide solutions to our current economic problems. I encourage you to get involved to continue to make this a great place to live, work and play.

REMEMBER, Dacula is at the center of Georgia’s Innovation Crescent.

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