Community Corner

Falling Home Values, Lawsuit Settlement and Southern Style Pizza

A look at a few of the top stories this week on Dacula Patch.

After years of declining home values, it would be nice to think we are about to turn the corner. According to Zillow, that is not likely to be the case this year. While a few metropolitan markets are expected to hit bottom in 2012, the Atlanta area is not one of them. In fact, home values in the metro area are expected to fall more than anywhere else in the country. Dacula realtor Scott Lacy and Matt Hermes shed some light on the Dacula real estate market and what we can expect in 2012. 

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A new business in town is always good news, but this is particularly good news. First of all, I have heard good things about Dooley’s. Second of all, I’m really glad to see another business going into The Veranda shopping center. We have a lot of empty commercial space around town and The Veranda, one of the newer strip malls in our area, has been slow to attract tenants. The last thing we need is abandoned/failed/foreclosed commercial property. I hope some of our other struggling commercial areas will soon see new tenants as well. 

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We really do have a lot to be proud of when it comes to our local schools. From the elementary level on up, the Dacula area is home to some of the finest schools in the county and state. Congratulations to the students, parents, teachers and administrators of Dacula High School and Mill Creek High School on this outstanding achievement.

It’s been a long time coming, but the service delivery dispute agreement is now signed, sealed and delivered. For residents in Gwinnett’s cities and Gwinnett taxpayers funding this lawsuit, this is very good news. 

This week we learned the only company interested in privatizing Briscoe Field is the same company that has previously promoted a plan for turning the airport into an “origin and destination airport” with a maximum of 10 gates with up to an additional 80 flights a day. For people living near the airport and in the flight path, this is no doubt worrisome news. Now we must simply wait and see what the county intends to do. This decision will have a huge impact not just on those who live around the airport, but for all Gwinnett County taxpayers.

 

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